The energy ministers will discuss the energy sector’s contribution to the EU’s competitiveness in Luxembourg on Oct. 15. According to the agenda, this will be based on the recommendations of the Draghi report. For a long time, it was not clear whether the Hungarian Council Presidency would actually schedule a meeting for the optional date.However, […]
The French government has called on the EU to increase standardization in the nuclear industry. “We are dependent on the industry adhering to time and cost schedules“, said Laurent Kueny, Head of the Energy Department at the French Ministry of the Economy, at the EU Commission’s Nuclear Energy Forum in Prague on Tuesday. To achieve […]
The EU Commission’s new course against imports of Chinese electrolyzers will also affect the Member States’ funding policy for the production of green hydrogen. A spokesperson for Energy Commissioner Kadri Simson clarified this on Monday at the request of Table.Briefings: “With regard to the hydrogen bank auctions, the same conditions apply to EU tenders as […]
The EU Commission plans to restrict the use of Chinese technology for the production of green hydrogen for European demand. On Friday, the Brussels authority published the conditions for the second auction of the European Hydrogen Bank. The conditions also include new resilience criteria for electrolyzers. According to the publication, participating projects would have to […]
The EU Commission plans to restrict the use of Chinese technology for the production of green hydrogen for European demand. On Friday, the Brussels authority published the conditions for the second auction of the European Hydrogen Bank. The conditions also include new resilience criteria for electrolyzers. According to the publication, participating projects would have to […]
Germany and all other EU states apart from Denmark have missed a legal deadline to accelerate the expansion of renewable energies and electricity grids. Due to the inadequate implementation of the Renewable Energy Directive (RED), the EU Commission initiated the first stage of infringement proceedings against the 26 states on Thursday, as the authority announced […]
Friends of nuclear energy will be meeting in Prague on Monday and Tuesday, with the first words of welcome already coming from Sven Giegold from Brussels on Thursday. “EU funds should only be spent on energy sources that all member states believe in and therefore not on new nuclear power plants”, said the Green State […]
In the dispute over the possible division of the German electricity bidding zone, a report commissioned by the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of the Environment argues for alternative solutions. For example, different regional remuneration for renewable energies, electrolyzers for hydrogen production and controllable power plants as part of capacity mechanisms are possible. “Before a bidding zone separation […]
The Liberals in the EU Parliament are aiming for an own-initiative report on energy networks. A decision could already be made at a meeting of the coordinators of the Industry Committee next week, French MEP Christophe Grudler told Table.Briefings on Thursday. Grudler is the ITRE coordinator for the Renew Group.Grudler wants a redistribution of the […]
The first responsibilities for the dossiers are allocated in the European Parliament. The rapporteur for the European Defense Investment Program will be Francois-Xavier Bellamy (EPP). On Thursday, Romanian EPP MEP Siegfried Mureșan also announced that he had been appointed rapporteur for the next Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF). The Social Democrats need a little longer. They […]