Energy Efficiency Policy Toolkit 2025
About this report
To accelerate action on energy efficiency, the IEA created the Policy Packages for Energy Efficiency in 2022 to support governments in designing and implementing effective energy efficiency measures by combining policies across three core pillars: regulation, information, and incentives.
The IEA then developed an Energy Efficiency Policy Toolkit that integrates the Policy Package for Energy Efficiency, with concrete examples for each end-use sector. The Toolkit shares strategic principles to guide policy makers to enhance and expand their energy efficiency policies and programmes.
Building on this foundation, the Energy Efficiency Policy Toolkit 2025, updated on the occasion of the 10th Annual Global Conference on Energy Efficiency in Brussels, has evolved into an interactive, online tool. This updated version enhances usability and policy impact by incorporating a wide range of case studies, offering practical insights into the successful implementation of energy efficiency policies across diverse national and sectoral contexts.
Ten strategic principles
Based on the IEA’s analysis of best practices and the work of the Global Commission for Urgent Action on Energy Efficiency, the following strategic principles can help guide policymakers to enhance and expand their energy efficiency policies and programmes, and to accelerate energy efficiency gains through new and stronger policy.
- Prioritise cross-cutting energy efficiency action for its economic, social and environmental benefits.
- Act to unlock efficiency's job creation potential.
- Create greater demand for energy efficiency solutions.
- Focus on finance in the wider context of scaling up action.
- Leverage digital innovation to enhance system-wide efficiency.
- Lead by example in the public sector.
- Engage all parts of society.
- Leverage behavioural insights for more effective policy.
- Strengthen international collaboration.
- Raise global energy efficiency ambition.