Strategies 2023: Rational use of energy; Gas; Oil; Electro-technologies

Besides the fact that regulatory texts address the replacement of fossil energies by renewable energies for decarbonization purposes, this set of articles addresses ways to improve in a rational way the use of energy. A first article overviews French and European policies to support sobriety and energy efficiency, evokes societal expectations and the growing role of digital technologies in energy use, also also strategic orientations for the AFNOR strategic committee (valorisation of existing standards, promotion of a global approach to the rational use of energy, support a framework for the access to a decarbonized electric power). Other articles more particularly focus on the cases of gas, oil and electro-technologies with, for each one, an overview of standardization, of the energy policy context in the world, Europe and France, and of strategic orientations for the AFNOR strategic committee. In each article, tables are provided which provide indications of published standards