The European Movement for Efficient Energy (EME²) is a stakeholder platform that seeks to promote energy efficiency in Europe. This would be more of a producer and provider of energy, particularly water and land. This is EME² refers to “efficient energy.” The current primary focus is on the supply of more energy-efficient electricity and combined heat and power.

The global energy system has enormous potential to make energy savings. GE Energy estimates that from a total primary energy input for electricity production of 49.555 TWh, only 15.623 TWh of electricity was delivered to customers worldwide. At the European Union level, the energy sector consumes 30% of primary energy consumption and analysis by Delta Energy and Environment of France, Poland and the UK shows that increases supply-side efficiency has the same overall energy saving potential as demand-side efficiency. In France, Poland and the UK, Delta estimates that supply-side options can contribute up to 32% of the overall goal of 20% carbon emission reduction and up to 26% of an overall goal to reduce primary energy consumption by 20%. EME² argues that ensuring supply-side energy efficiency requires system-wide cohesion and investment, from the supply and conversion of primary energy through the transmission and distribution of power and heat. The movement places no emphasis on a specific energy source and argues that Europe will continue to rely on a broad mix of energy sources and innovative technologies over the coming decades. Such a mix would evolve and vary from region to region to country for both political and practical reasons. EME² define its purpose as to “help drive understanding and uptake of policy strategies and technologies for maximizing supply-side, system-wide efficiencies whatever the mix”. The concept of efficient energy goes beyond just reducing greenhouse gases; it is about the efficient use of our resources, our fuel, water and land.

EU policy-makers have given significant attention to energy efficiency among energy consumers. End-use energy efficiency policies promoting high-energy light bulbs. EME² argues more attention should be paid to supply-side energy efficiency. The European Commission has begun to address these issues. In its Energy Efficiency Plan (March 2011), the European Commission called on EU Member States to expand the scope of their energy efficiency policies beyond the demand side of the supply side, ie energy production and delivery. Europe will achieve its energy goals. The Commission is in charge of the decision-making process in the management of the energy market and the management of the market. In September 2011, the European Commission also released a Roadmap for a Resource Efficient Europe. That roadmap describes the economic benefits of using more resources, by creating major economic opportunities for companies and workers, improving productivity, reducing costs, and enhancing competitiveness. A key and possible most controversial plank of the Commission proposal is to shift taxation from labor to resource use. Environmentally Harmful Subsidies (EHS). The roadmap is a key to reducing the impact of pollution on the environment and the environment. The roadmap sets a 2020 target for all key resources – ecosystem services, biodiversity, minerals and metals, water, air, land and soil and marine resources – and lists of actions and initiatives of the EU and its member states should embark on. The roadmap is a key to reducing the impact of pollution on the environment and the environment. The roadmap sets a 2020 target for all key resources – ecosystem services, biodiversity, minerals and metals, water, air, land and soil and marine resources – and lists of actions and initiatives of the EU and its member states should embark on. The roadmap is a key to reducing the impact of pollution on the environment and the environment. The roadmap sets a 2020 target for all key resources – ecosystem services, biodiversity, minerals and metals, water, air, land and soil and marine resources – and lists of actions and initiatives of the EU and its member states should embark on.

EME² is funded by participants contributions with initial funding from GE Energy. EME² has appointed Burson-Marsteller Brussels to act as the secretariat of the movement. Its members include: