The methane regulation could become part of an energy omnibus that may ease import regulations for natural gas. The NGO Clean Air Task Force warns in a letter to the EU energy ministers ahead of their meeting on June 16 against undermining the integrity of the regulation. The regulation governs obligations for the measurement and […]
Economics Minister Katherina Reiche has announced a thorough review of the industrial electricity price. Before holding talks with the Commission on state aid law, the German government wants to “first look at who still needs and can be relieved and what is eligible for state aid,” said Reiche at the BDEW Congress in Berlin. Before […]
Tuesday’s second trilogue on the EU gas storage regulation did not result in a final agreement. A new meeting has been scheduled for June 24, according to negotiation sources cited by Table.Briefings. However, Parliament and Council have reportedly made progress on several key points, including storage targets, reporting obligations, and how to handle Russian gas. […]
In the dispute over subsidies for new reserve power plants, the former red-green government warned Brussels shortly before the end of its term of office that the costs would be too high. The warning can be found in the opinion on the new CISAF state aid framework, which the Commission consulted on by the end […]
A “pragmatic approach to low-carbon hydrogen” – that was one of the points that Friedrich Merz and Emmanuel Macron called for in a joint newspaper article at the start of Merz’s chancellorship. The EU Commission has only partially responded to this if you read the latest draft of the Delegated Act, which defines how low-carbon […]
At the informal Energy Council in Warsaw, many ministers supported the phasing out of energy imports from Russia by 2027, but there was a debate about price stability in relation to gas and nuclear fuel. Poland’s Climate Minister Paulina Hennig-Kloska said this at the end of the two-day meeting on Tuesday. The Polish Presidency is […]
Many electricity producers and consumers now have to wait a long time to be connected to the grid. The EU Parliament is therefore calling on the Commission to introduce clear criteria for the order in which grid operators process connection requests. It is to submit a proposal for an amendment to the Internal Electricity Market […]
SPD MEP René Repasi and German Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil have opposed German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s call to repeal the Supply Chain Directive. “The demand to abolish the Supply Chain Directive came as a surprise to us because we discussed this at great length during the coalition negotiations,” said the chairman of the European SPD, […]
According to the EU Commission, the possible division of the German-Luxembourg electricity price zone will require very close scrutiny. On April 28, the transmission system operators recommended a division of Germany into five price zones in the Bidding Zone Review Report. “The member states now have six months to react. We will keep our feet […]
Growth for stationary batteries in Europe has slowed in 2024. According to a report published by the lobby association SolarPower Europe on Wednesday, this is because the installation of home storage systems in Europe fell for the first time since 2020. The market slumped by eleven percent compared to the previous year, but still accounts […]