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EuropeON − Electrical Contractors Association

Engaging at EU level to foster synergies between electrical contractors and European policy makers

Lesedauer: 3 Minuten

23.05.2025

EuropeOn is the European voice of the electrical contracting industry. Since 1954 EuropeOn has been the only forum for electrical contractors and their representatives across Europe to come together, exchange and form common positions on the issues that are important to them.

The Austrian Professional Association of Electricians is member of the European Association since 1956. Especially in today’s world of economic-political lobbying in favor of the Austrian electricians and due to the partly transformation of legislation from national to the EU-level it‘s more important than ever for a national association to be represented in an European umbrella-association and connected with other European partner-associations. The Austrian professional association is thus involved at European level and makes its expertise available in order to serve the interests of its members by working in several EuropeOn‘s working groups as like skills working group, Value Chain working group, Communication working group and others.

Today, Europe is home to about 2.7 million electrical professionals, employed by 420.000 businesses and generating over € 300 billions of annual turnover. Together, they are making the green and digital transitions concretely happen in every parts of Europe.

The energy transition and urgency of climate action have pushed electrical contractors to the fore as electrification has been increasingly recognized as the primal and most efficient pathway to decarbonize our energy uses. Electrical contractors provide the electrical installations needed for buildings and infrastructure to decarbonize, enabling regions and citizens to take part in the energy transition.

Alongside the energy transition, electrical contractors are making the digital transition happen on the ground. They are responsible for the installation of digital infrastructure and enable the digitalisation of the energy sector, especially at end-user level.

Against this backdrop, EuropeOn has been endowed with a new responsibility to convey the feedback electrical contractors can provide from the ground to the EU institutions in order to best inform policymakers about the most suitable regulatory approach to implementing the energy and digital transitions.

Publications & News

Selection of latest publications, which were created by EuropeOn and their members, among them the Austrian Professional Association

  • Report "Home Electrical Installation Upgrades: A Fitness Check for Zero-Emission Readiness": This report highlights the crucial role of modern electrical installations in ensuring homes are prepared for a fully electrified future, and serves as a guide for EU and national policymakers in implementing the EPBD and designing renovation strategies that recognize electrical installations as “the backbone of net-zero buildings”.
  • Sector Report: 2.7 million electrical professionals providing solutions to Europe’s challenges: This 2024 Sector Report provides policymakers and stakeholders with valuable data and perspectives on a sector that employs 2.7 million Europeans. As the EU is defining its strategic priorities for the next five years, the report underscores the essential contributions of electrical contractors in shaping a sustainable and competitive future.
  • A checklist for Green Workforce Assessments: EuropeOn guidelines fort he Implementation of the Energy Efficiency Directive’s workforce provisions, This publication puts forward guidelines articulated around 5 key steps aiming to provide relevant administrations with insight gathered from EuropeOn members on how this assessment can become a valuable tool for Member States to address the workforce needs of the energy transition but also to reap its socio-economic benefits.
  • The Makers of Tomorrow: Setting up the framework for attractiveness campaigns (Perspective from the European electrical contracting sector). With this report, EuropeOn demonstrates the relevance of promoting technical education and careers through awareness campaigns is a necessary steppingstone to secure the sufficient workforce that will enable Europe to achieve its energy efficiency goals.
  • EuropeOn’s Manifesto – Local jobs and local electrifications: making the energy transition happen for all Europeans: EuropeOn calls on policymakers to set forth an Electrification Action Plan that will map the road ahead to rid ourselves from fossil fuels and their many detrimental impacts and to increase our welfare, resilience and sovereignty. EuropeOn calls too on the EU to decisively act on the electrification workforce, currently lacking in numbers and left fending for itself, as we insist that this can bring tremendous benefits to our economy and to our society.

Further information is available on

www.europe-on.org