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DCC

At DCC Energy Solutions, we bring cleaner energy to 1.7 million direct customers to fire manufacturing processes, heat facilities, boil water, keep homes warm and facilitate self-generation of power.

Lobbying Activity

Meeting with Eva Schultz (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Roxana Mînzatu) and Penta

3 Dec 2025 · Energy transition

Response to Heating and cooling strategy

9 Oct 2025

DCC welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the European Commissions call for evidence on a revised EU Heating & Cooling Strategy. As a leading supplier for residential and industrial heat across Europe, serving 9 EU Member States and millions of customers, DCC is playing a major role in supporting Europe to decarbonise its heating sector. In the last 2 years, DCC has invested more than 500 million to meet our energy transition strategy through reducing the carbon intensity of our existing fossil fuels business by introducing renewable liquid fuels and gases, while also building a leading electron-based energy management business. These types of investments mean we have achieved an 11% reduction in our scope 3 emissions against our 2022 baseline totalling 4.5 MtCO. However, to sustain this level of investment, and therefore emissions savings, the EUs future heating system must be designed on the right principles, address outstanding barriers to decarbonisation, support technology-neutral innovation and simplify the existing EU energy acquis to unlock fuels of the future and cost-effective electrification. At DCC, our guiding principle is the need to address the energy trilemma: energy must be secure, it must be affordable, and it must be sustainable. In addition to this, we believe that a market-based design is essential; this means setting ambitious decarbonisation targets or mandates and allowing the market to find innovative solutions to meet GHG emissions reductions. Inclusion and consumer choice is likewise important. As such, our recommended principles for the Commissions proposed revision are (all with equal importance): Inclusivity Affordability Technology neutrality Security Sustainability Translating these system design principles into tangible policy options, DCCs central recommendation is for the European Commission to propose an EU-wide renewable heat mandate. By analogy with RED IIIs requirements for transport fuels, this would require suppliers of liquid and gaseous fuels for space and process heating either to meet a target for reduction in the average GHG intensity of fuels supplied or to meet a specific percentage-based target for the share of renewable liquid and gaseous fuels in their total fuel supply. Such targets would increase incrementally year-on-year, to ensure that the EU can meet its 2030 renewable energy targets and its 2030 / 2040 climate targets. Member States would have the option to set a GHG intensity reduction target or renewables share target. DCC believes that a GHG intensity reduction target is an effective instrument as this can incentivise the use of novel feedstocks and production pathways which can deliver higher levels of decarbonisation and potentially achieve net carbon removals. DCC further believes that in order to increase energy system security, priority support should be given to EU-produced renewable liquids and gases, borrowing principles from the upcoming Industrial Accelerator Act. Simplifications to existing EU renewable fuels rules, borrowing principles from the transport fuels sector, should also be analysed, to both expedite and drive down prices of renewable fuel development.
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Meeting with Michael McGrath (Commissioner)

9 Sept 2025 · The decarbonisation of Europe – Irish perspective

Meeting with Taru Haapaniemi (Cabinet of Commissioner Christophe Hansen) and Liquid Gas Europe and

1 Jul 2025 · Decarbonisation of agriculture

Response to European Affordable Housing Plan

4 Jun 2025

Please find attached from DCC Energy.
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Meeting with Anne-Maud Orlinski (Cabinet of Commissioner Dan Jørgensen), Martin Engell-Rossen (Cabinet of Commissioner Dan Jørgensen)

29 Jan 2025 · New Energy Policies priority Clean Industrial Deal and Affordable Energy Action Plan

Meeting with Eric Von Breska (Director Mobility and Transport)

29 Jan 2025 · Discussion on the alternative fuels in Europe – renewable and low-carbon fuels as well electrical charging

Meeting with Miguel Jose Garcia Jones (Cabinet of Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra)

29 Jan 2025 · Discussion on the role of biofuels and solar in the energy and climate transition.