Periodic Reporting for period 1 - W4RES (Scaling-up the involvement of women in supporting and accelerating market uptake of renewable energy sources for heating and cooling)
Période du rapport: 2020-11-01 au 2022-04-30
In spite of their catalytic potential in supporting the uptake of renewable energy, women are still underrepresented across the renewable energy sector: more men than women are working in the sector; women are a minority in energy policy-making and decision-making bodies in the EU and its member states. All in all, it appears that the EU is not utilising to the full a much promising lever that can not only facilitate the uptake of renewable energy in heating and cooling, but also address the persisting gender gap in the traditionally male-dominated energy sector, fostering a socially inclusive clean energy transition that can bring equal benefits for all EU citizens.
Women hold great potential as agents of change, driving the clean energy transition and getting us closer to meeting the EU’s climate and energy targets for 2030. In this context, W4RES taps into this potential to support the uptake of renewable energy in heating and cooling (RHC), a market that urgently needs to shift more to RES.