Join us at the Energy Evaluation Europe Conference 2027:

Crises, Transformations and Resilience: Powering evidence-based energy policy through evaluation

6-8 October 2027 – Tallinn, Estonia

Venue: TalTech – Tallinn University of Technology

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If you did no attend an Energy Evaluation Europe conference before, check the pages about the previous conference held in Berlin in September 2025: EEE conference 2025 – Energy Evaluation

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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES OF THE CONFERENCE

2026 has brought signs that climate change may accelerate more than expected. The war on Iran is playing havoc with oil and gas prices and consequently the world economy. What started with the COVID pandemic as an unexpected global disruption, continued with Russia’s war on Ukraine and turned from an one-off disruption to a continued “state” of crisis.  At the point of this writing, while the geopolitical turmoil continues, the Youth of Western and Southern Europe has taken to the streets to remind us of the interests of future generations. And: we are already faced with the next revolutionary turnover in the form of Artificial Intelligence.

Governments need to change policies at all levels that pay heed to these requirements (EU, national, regional, local), while most of them face major budget issues. Using evidence on what works and what does not – instead of relying on fake news and populist ideas –  for policy and decision making is more critical than ever. This at a time when some policy makers and mass media question the reality of facts and the validity of science.

Energy Evaluation Europe 2027 will continue to be a forum to gather latest energy evaluation results and relate them to the overall challenges of energy transition and climate mitigation. The European Commission will soon release a new policy package to prepare the post-2030 period. EU Member States have to draft their National Energy & Climate Plan for 2031-2040 by January 2028.  The conference will therefore be the time to review progress and learn from the current decade to prepare the next one.

The conference will also provide ample opportunities to share experiences about developments in evaluation practices.

We will discuss the role of evaluation, addressing questions such as: 

  • How can evaluation results become more visible, and be available to decision makers at the right moment in time?
  • Should relevance get higher in the hierarchy of evaluation criteria?
  • What insights can evaluations provide at times of crisis when one unforeseen shake-up follows another? These are by definition times of shifting baselines, unidentifiable counterfactuals and moving targets.
  • What interactions can there be between evaluations and foresights?
  • What is AI changing in evaluation practices and evaluators’ role? Can AI make evaluation faster and more responsive without compromising transparency, independence and trust?
  • How should evaluation address the combined impacts of geopolitical conflict, climate extremes and rapidly growing AI-driven electricity demand?
  • What do evaluations tell us about policy impacts on affordability, competitiveness, resilience, strategic autonomy or reindustrialization? 

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: deadline Friday 4 December 2026

The conference committee is seeking abstracts about the evaluation of energy and climate policies addressing energy efficiency, renewable energies, energy security, energy poverty, energy transformation, energy infrastructure, energy markets, and other energy-related topics, established and innovative evaluation methodologies and techniques, including the use of AI in evaluations, as well as cross-cutting topics such as regulation, financing, digitalization or AI in the energy sector.

We welcome contributions on recent evaluations of policies and programmes, as well as research or discussions about evaluation methods and practices. Novel approaches, including dynamic and systems evaluations, and out-of-the-box thinking, are particularly encouraged.

We especially welcome high quality papers, presentations and posters with a high potential of experience sharing, either about the evaluation methods or about the evaluation findings and how they can be used.

A selection of papers will be published in a special issue of the Energy Efficiency journal (Springer-Nature). The special issue from the previous conference can be found here: https://link.springer.com/collections/gghbiedaaj

When submitting your abstract, you can indicate your preference for one of the following formats (see more details in the Information for Authors):

  • oral presentations with peer-reviewed papers,
  • oral presentations with extended abstracts,
  • panel session, fishbowl or other types of interactive session
  • poster. 

For peer-reviewed papers, you can also indicate if you would be willing to apply for inclusion in the special issue to be published in the Energy Efficiency journal (Springer ed.).

Please read the Information for Authors before submitting your abstract.

Please note that Energy Evaluation is a non-profit association. The conference can happen thanks to the support of the conference partners and the conference fees paid by the participants. Presenters, panelists and moderators have thus to pay the conference fees.

If you are interested in being a sponsor of the conference, email europe@energy-evaluation.org for more details.