Europe's energy markets and sector are in the middle of a large transformation process towards a low-carbon system with a much more diverse landscape of market participants.

This European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) conference aims at facilitating dialogue by bringing together representatives of civil society organisations, experts and senior representatives of the European institutions. More concretely, the event seeks to foster an open debate of cross-cutting topics that have emerged from the EESC's recent work on the clean energy package, namely governance, empowering consumers, financing the energy transition, greening the economy, and the future (progress) of the Energy Union.

Each of the five panels will be presented with a number of questions received from citizens and civil society organisations across Europe ahead of the conference.