Sustainable Energy Europe is the EU’s campaign to raise awareness of intelligent energy supply and end use. Since 2007 the campaign has hosted a week-long event called European Union Sustainable Energy Week. Held this year on 22-26 March, it has more than 200 events across Europe.

The development of the event, which is organised in 2010 by the Executive Agency for Competitiveness and Innovation (EACI) on behalf of the European Commission’s directorate-general for energy, is testament to a commitment to sustainable energy.

The first official Sustainable Energy Week in Brussels in January 2007 hosted 40 major European players. Organisers held 30 events and attracted about 4,500 individuals. But just four years later, the number of activities and events has grown more than three-fold. The 2010 edition of the Sustainable Energy Week will see over 80 events in Brussels alone, plus 260 energy days across the EU.

One of the more unusual events will see VIPs compete in a bike race around a 135metre circuit on the esplanade of the European Commission’s Berlaymont building. Participants will include European Commissioners Oettinger, Hahn, Potočnik and Hedegaard.

An Energy Day event in London by the National Housing Federation is entitled Keeping the roof on: a realistic guide to retrofitting.

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http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/energy/newsletter/dg/2010/0318newsletter.html