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Energy Planning Week 2026

Organiser: International Renewable Energy Agency

Energy Planning Week 2026 is the first working gathering of the energy planning community after COP31 — four days in Bonn built around exchange. Those who join work directly with peer governments on live planning cases, engage the institutions that finance implementation, and help shape the partnerships that will define the planning agenda for 2027.

Good planning underpins every successful energy transition. Turning political ambition into long-term scenarios, credible roadmaps and investment-ready pipelines takes deliberate, sustained work that brings together policy, technical delivery and finance. As countries move from climate commitments to implementation, the quality of that planning increasingly determines whether transitions are timely, affordable and just. 

Initiated in 2018, IRENA's Long-Term Energy Scenarios (LTES) Network and the Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM) Initiative on LTES connect government planners and practitioners directly with one another. Together they provide a peer-to-peer platform to exchange knowledge and good practices in the use and development of scenarios, promoting wider and more effective use of LTES in government for energy and climate policymaking. Much of this exchange has taken place through the International Forum on Long-Term Energy Scenarios, the Network's annual flagship event, which has brought hundreds of scenario practitioners from government, academia, technical institutions and industry since 2019. GET.transform complements this peer exchange with direct, country-level support. A technical assistance programme implemented by GIZ and co-funded by the European Union, Germany, Norway, the Netherlands, Sweden and Austria, it works with individual countries to advance their power sector transformations and turn plans into investment-ready projects. The Global Coalition for Energy Planning (GCEP) brings these strands together at a political level. Launched in June 2025 following Brazil's 2024 G20 Presidency, with IRENA serving as its Secretariat, GCEP is a high-level platform that connects planning and finance ministries to close the investment gap in the energy transition.

In 2026, this work converges in a new flagship format: Energy Planning Week 2026, co-hosted by IRENA and GET.transform. Taking place two weeks after the close of COP31 and ahead of the seventeenth IRENA Assembly in January 2027, the Week brings the energy planning community together to translate political commitments into the scenarios, roadmaps and investment-ready projects that make them real.

You can find more information here and register via this link.

Overview of Recent Energy Case Law from the CJEU, December 2026

Organiser: Florence School of Regulation

During this event two senior FSR legal experts will provide an in-depth analysis of the most notable energy cases at the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) from recent months.

The FSR Law Area will provide a comprehensive review of the most significant energy cases before the Court of Justice of the European Union in recent months. Kaisa Huhta (Part-Time Professor FSR; Professor of Energy Law, University of Eastern Finland) and Adrien de Hauteclocque (Part-Time Professor, FSR; Visiting Senior Fellow, LSE) will offer an expert analysis of the latest developments in case law. The discussion will also cover an overview of the most significant pending cases.

Following the presentation, an interactive Q&A session will be held, allowing attendees to engage directly with the experts and enhance their understanding of the topics discussed.

The list of cases to be covered will be published online in due course.

You can find more information here and register via this link.