2022 geopolitical tensions demonstrated how BSR strategic sectors are severely exposed to international disturbances in the energy market. BS saw record-high energy prices, which boosted inflation, supply bottlenecks, all which produced severe effects on business and communities.

In 2023, the EU Parliament proposed a plan to make Europe energy independent with focus to a long-term vision on energy security (“From sprint to marathon”). This marathon focus is still lacking in BS, where short-term energy interventions are implemented with no long-term circular planning.

The lineal approach, implementing isolated interventions not guided by a circular long-term plan of actuations, leads to inefficiencies, additional cost of investment, or even impossibility to carry other future energy investments.

BSR energy actors are not offering this circular long-term vision, sometimes due to lack of knowledge or planning tools, which produces a delay in the implementation of the circular energy independency.

The main objective of EnergyCircle is to offer the target groups, a set of solutions to support the transition to circular energy independence, based on long-term plans.