Energia Barcelona

Barcelona City Council is playing an active role in Energy Week, which is held every year to coincide with European Sustainable Energy Week (EUSEW). This year, Energy Week once again involves active participation as a driving force for changing our energy model: sharing the energy we produce.  This year’s slogan is once again "Now is the time to share renewable energy!".

Barcelona is joining the campaign linked to Energy Week, which aims to promote energy efficiency and renewable energies in the European Union and other countries, as well as fostering self-production and the sharing of the energy we consume. This year’s edition is being held from 11 to 13 June 2024.

Within the context of the current climate emergency, a number of organisations and facilities in Barcelona will be offering tours and activities to promote the change in our energy model, highlighting the fundamental role played by the general public and grassroots involvement in achieving the city's energy-transition goals.

The city is adopting global strategies and joining forces to become more resilient and self-sufficient at the local level, with the aim of achieving decarbonisation and climate neutrality by 2030. The city’s energy transition is based on the following three principles:

• Encouraging energy savings, energy efficiency and the rational use of energy, minimising the demand for energy in the city.
• Making the local generation of renewable energy an everyday reality in the city, maximising the number of new photovoltaic self-consumption installations in order to make full use of the city's main resource: the sun.
• Getting the public and the different economic sectors involved so that they become key stakeholders and a driving force for change, giving them an active role in local energy polices, making them share responsibility and involving them so that true change becomes a reality, by working together with the administration.

In Catalonia, Energy Week has the support of ICAEN, Barcelona Provincial Council, Tarragona Provincial Council and Lleida Provincial Council. 

The goal is for city councils, like Barcelona City Council, as well as schools and other participating organisations, to organise activities that inform, raise awareness and promote the inclusion of energy-based criteria in initiatives such as building renovation work, the production of renewable energy through self-consumption projects and the creation of local energy communities, along with sustainable and efficient e-mobility.