An energy efficiency symposium to investigate the connection between consumers' choices and energy efficiency objectives.

The biggest European event on renewables and sustainable energy is taking place on 19-21 June in Brussels, less than a month after the EU elections. APPLiA, representing the home appliance industry, will debate on essential topics, such as energy labelling, ecodesign and standardisation, and will shake up the format by giving the word to the youth.

"We need to consider how to incentivise Europeans to change their patterns of energy use as well as to ensure they are fairly informed on the flexible pricing conditions”, said APPLiA’s Smart Living and Competitiveness Policy Specialist, Lenka Jančová during the 23rd IEEE Symposium on International Symposium on Consumer Technologies on 20 June 2019. 

The upcoming of 5G is not far in the future and it represents a fundamental topic for the home appliance industry, which has actively kept up with the developments of the sector and worked to grant the best experience to consumers.

While a few years back, the non-listing of standards was exceptional, such practices risk becoming the norm. Producers of home appliances like blenders, refrigerators, connected products and, what is most, medical devices today cannot fully refer to certain standards because as such they do not exist black on white. 

If only last May APPLiA Polska organised the first of its kind in Europe, Household Appliance Congress and announced the association’s rebranding from tip to toe, in 2019, the AGD Kongres has transformed into a forum looking straight toward the future of the industry.