Did you know that Europe imports around 120 TWh of LNG from Qatar every year?
Energy shipped thousands of kilometres through increasingly unstable geopolitical regions - paid for by us Europeans - only to be wasted again in industry on uninsulated and poorly insulated equipment.
Honestly… this makes no sense anymore.
-> Let’s stop this useless waste.
-> And let’s stop waiting.
50 years after the oil crisis, saving energy is at least as important today as it was back then.
The good news:
We are ready to deliver: EiiF members confirm that increasing industrial insulation activity by 10–20% immediately is feasible and sufficient technical insulation material is available.
And best of all, Europe already has a harmonised energy efficiency standard for industrial insulation systems: EN 17956.
So, what are we waiting for?
Let’s:
✔ scale up TIPCHECK insulation scans across European industry
✔ insulate uninsulated equipment immediately
✔ stop the energy waste of tomorrow - by setting the standard today
If all ETS-listed production sites in Europe simply insulated:
• at least 10% of identified uninsulated equipment
or even just
• 50 uninsulated valves each
…Europe could already save around 5 TWh before the next winter.
And this is only the beginning.
The new EiiF White Paper 2026 presents a practical 4-pillar action plan showing how Europe can achieve annual savings of 120 TWh by improving industrial insulation systems.
Because honestly: If not now - when do we finally stop importing and paying for energy we are not even using in Europe but losing?
