1. Energy efficiency: the Strategy maximizes energy savings up to 51.8% of primary and 27.5% of final energy. Historically, a decreasing trend can be noticed in the primary energy consumption with final energy consumption remaining stable. With North Macedonia being a developing country, it is projected that the GDP growth will amount on average 3.3% per annum, positioning North Macedonia in 2040 to neighbouring EU countries' GDP per capita levels of today. With GDP growth being one of the main drivers for future energy demand, maximization of energy efficiency policies is much needed, as they directly impact emission reductions, decrease import dependence, and stimulate domestic economy with local job opportunities. In all three scenarios, North Macedonia will use less resources to cover the same needs, with the decoupling of consumption starting from 2020 but with different rates per scenario. As a first step, it is important to determine the ambition level by setting the national EE targets for 2020 and 2030, where the Strategy results could serve as a good basis. The biggest energy savings can be achieved in primary energy consumption, mostly due to decrease of coal consumption in the Moderate transition and Green scenario. Also, the overall improvement of EE at supply side and continuous reduction of losses in distribution network will additionally alleviate primary energy consumption. As for the final energy consumption, it will increase in the future but with considerably lower rates in the Moderate transition and Green scenario, due to more progressive EE measures. Therefore, it is important to continue the usage of existing EE measures and introduce new ones for household and commercial sector. The Strategy puts additional focus on EE in transport and industry sectors as the biggest contributors in the final energy consumption, especially after 2025. For DH systems, the goal should be to improve the efficiency, especially via systematical reconstructions of distribution network. All planned EE measures need to be monitored so that those which prove to be more impactful on energy consumption could be further stimulated for implementation. 3. Decarbonisation: In the Green scenario in 2040 the Strategy decreases GHG emissions up to 61.5% vs. 2005 or 72.8% vs. BAU, while strongly increasing the usage of RES in a sustainable manner up to 45% in gross final energy consumption. Even though North