Trade & Business

Associação Portuguesa dos Industriais Grandes Consumidores de Energia Eléctrica

🇪🇺 PORTUGALRegistered 10/03 staff

Disclosed budget

€50,000 — €99,999

Meetings 12mo

Policy files

Accredited passes

Recent meetings

Date	Commissioner / Cabinet	Topic	File
20 Jun 2017	Joachim Balke Cabinet member	Market Design	—
20 Jun 2017	Joachim Balke Cabinet member	Market Design	SRC

Mission & Goals

Associação Portuguesa dos Industriais Grandes Consumidores de Energia Eléctrica (APIGCEE) is the Association of Large Industrial Electricity Consumers in Portugal, which is member of IFIEC Europe since 1998. APIGCEE aims at safeguarding the interests of its members in the industrial use of electricity and contributing to the establishment of a regulatory system in the electricity sector that promotes transparency among the activities of generation, transmission and distribution as well as to increase the efficiency and quality of service. APIGCEE, with an aggregate electric consumption of 5,3 TWh (2023), represents approximately 10% of the total electricity consumption and 28% of industrial consumption in Portugal.

EU Legislative Interests

Revision of the Energy Taxation Directive - Roadmap Energy Taxation Directive Survey Public consultation on the “Preparation of a new Renewable Energy Directive for the period after 2020” Contribution to the Portuguese Position relating to the "Clean Energy Package" Stakeholder consultation on the Staff Working Document “For a resilient, innovative, sustainable and digital energy intensive industries ecosystem: Scenarios for a transition pathway”

Communication Activities

MENDONÇA e COSTA, Jorge (2015) - “The role of electrointensive industry in the integration of electrical energy produced from renewables” – Industry and Environment Magazine – January/ February 2015 (in Portuguese) http://www.industriaeambiente.pt/scid/webIA/includes/book/viewBook.asp?articleID=2434 MENDONÇA e COSTA, Jorge (2017) - “The national energy policy framework for the big industry” – Industry and Environment Magazine – September / October 2017 (in Portuguese) http://www.industriaeambiente.pt/noticias/revista-n106-setembro-outubro-2017/ MENDONÇA e COSTA, Jorge (2022) - "New Energy Resources and Decarbonisation of the Energy Intensive Industry” - Industry and Environment Magazine – March / April 2022 (in Portuguese) https://www.industriaeambiente.pt/noticias/revista-n133-marco-abril-2022/

Interests Represented

Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members

Member Of

APIGCEE is a member of IFIEC Europe http://www.ifieceurope.org/

Organisation Members

APIGCEE embodies thirteen (13) industrial organisations: http://apigcee.pt/

Connected Legislation

State of the Energy Union

70%

Comprehensive EU approach to energy storage

70%

Energy storage

70%

Energy efficiency: SAVE programme continuation (CO2 strategy)

70%

SAVE II: Hungary's participation in energy efficiency programme

70%

CEEC participation in SAVE II energy efficiency programme

70%

Energy statistics

70%

Nuclear safety 25 years after Chernobyl

70%

Ignalina NPP decommissioning assistance (2028-2034)

70%

Euratom loans for nuclear power station financing

70%

The Instrument for Nuclear Safety Cooperation and Decommissioning for the period 2028-2034 and repealing Regulations (Euratom) 2021/100 and (Euratom) 2021/948

70%

SYNERGY action programme

70%

EU conclusion of the Energy Community Treaty

70%

CEEC participation in SAVE II energy efficiency programme

70%

SAVE II: Slovenia's participation in energy efficiency programme

70%

CEEC participation in SAVE II energy efficiency programme

70%

CEEC participation in SAVE II energy efficiency programme

70%

Directive on the Energy Efficiency Directive (2012/27/EU)

70%

Green Paper: Energy efficiency

70%

Energy efficiency

70%

Amendment: EU list of projects of common interest (Reg 347/2013)

70%

Revised guidelines for trans-European energy infrastructure

70%

Trans-European energy infrastructure and repeal of Decision 1364/2006/EC

70%

Amendment: Trans-European energy networks (Decision 1254/96/EEC)

70%

Amendment: Trans-European Energy Networks (Decision 1254/96/EC)

70%

Trans-European energy infrastructure guidelines & repeal of Reg 347/2013

70%

Amendment to Regulation (EU) No 347/2013 on guidelines for trans-European energy infrastructure

70%

Amendment: EU list of projects of common and mutual interest

70%

Energy efficiency (recast)

70%

The first phase of the establishment of a common Union rating scheme for data centres

70%

Resolution on Thermie II programme

70%

State of the Energy Union

70%

CEEC participation in SAVE II energy efficiency programme

70%

European Energy Security

70%

Enlargement: Industrial policy and competitiveness

70%

Directive on summertime arrangements

70%

Aligning Energy Charta Treaty with EU Green Deal

70%

State of the Energy Union

70%

EU energy infrastructure investment projects

70%

State of the Energy Union

70%

Thermie II: Financial support for Energy Technology (1995-1998)

70%

Summer-time arrangements (2002-2006)

70%

EU nuclear power plant stress tests and neighborhood safety

70%

Multiannual programme for international energy cooperation (SYNERGY)

70%

CEEC participation in SAVE II energy efficiency programme

70%

Eastern Europe & CIS: Energy and nuclear safety policy

70%

The state of play of the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) modernisation exercise

70%

Energy sector cooperation (SYNERGY): Extension of Reg 701/97

70%

Cooperation on Community energy objectives

70%

State of the Energy Union

70%