BRIEFING PAPER - AN ELECTRIFICATION ACTION PLAN TO SECURE EU INDUSTRY’S FUTURE

It should form a core part of the announced Clean Industrial Deal, and be backed by three sets of instruments (details are set out at the end of this briefing): > Technology deployment and monitoring – such as adopting a manufacturing plan for electrification technologies; monitoring their 2 A N E L E C T R I F I C A T I O N A C T I O N P LA N T O S E C U R E E U I N D U S T RY ’ S F U T U R E dev. [...] 19 Madeddu et al., 2020, The CO2 reduction potential for the European industry via direct electrification of heat supply (power-to-heat); Fraunhofer Institute for Agora Industry, 2024, Direct Electrification of Industrial Process Heat 7 A N E L E C T R I F I C A T I O N A C T I O N P LA N T O S E C U R E E U I N D U S T RY ’ S F U T U R E . [...] Additionally, consumers may have to shoulder the costs of state-backed supply contracts for the massive deployment of renewables in the coming years;47 this has certainly been the case in the past in many EU countries.48 44 E3G, 2024, Gas transition in the EU: What’s next? A framework for a managed EU gas transition 45 Council of the EU, 2003, Directive restructuring the Community framework for th. [...] 59 European Commission, Industrial alliances (webpage, accessed September 2024) 60 European Commission, 2024, Mission letter to Dan Jørgensen, Commissioner-designate for Energy and Housing (PDF); European Commission, 2024, Report on the Review of the Regulation on the Governance of the Energy Union and Climate Action (PDF) 1 7 A N E L E C T R I F I C A T I O N A C T I O N P LA N T O S E C U R E E. [...] © E3G 2024 1 9 A N E L E C T R I F I C A T I O N A C T I O N P LA N T O S E C U R E E U I N D U S T RY ’ S F U T U R E The time for action on industrial electrification is now Supporting direct electrification will contribute to core EU objectives Direct electrification technologies can decarbonise most industrial processes The EU can take a technological lead, using first-move.