Ahead of the final trilogue on the gas market package next Monday, the Permanent Representatives of the Member States are today discussing a still controversial point of the Gas Market Directive. Several states are siding with the Commission and want to enforce horizontal unbundling of natural gas and hydrogen networks. However, the Parliament and states […]
The EU is providing a further €4.8 billion from the Innovation Fund to promote hydrogen and the decarbonization of industry. A new round of calls for proposals for the fund begins today, according to a Commission website. For the first time, the EU is making €800 million available from the Innovation Fund for developers of […]
The existence of many economic sectors in Europe depends on access to cheap green hydrogen. The revised Renewable Energy Directive (RED III), which came into force on Monday, sets fixed quotas for industry and transport. In this overview, you can read about the resulting obligations, whether they are compatible with the German government’s National Hydrogen […]
The state party conference of the Social Democrats in Saarland nominated Christian Petry for first place on the state list for the European elections on Saturday. This was announced by the Saar SPD at the weekend. Petry is currently the European policy spokesman for the SPD parliamentary group in the Bundestag and deals with financial […]
To more effectively monitor energy wholesale markets, the European regulatory agency ACER (Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators) is granted additional powers. Yesterday, the Council and Parliament reached a provisional position on the REMIT (Regulation on Wholesale Energy Market Integrity and Transparency) as part of the electricity market reform. For the first time, ACER […]
The French nuclear power plant operator EDF is to market its electricity at an average price of €70 per megawatt hour from 2026, according to the government. Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire and Energy Minister Agnès Pannier-Runacher announced an agreement to this effect yesterday following a meeting with CEO Luc Rémont. The value is well […]
The EU Commission is not expected to decide on a ban on gas and oil boilers until next year. The Commission has halted the process for the time being and a decision on new Ecodesign requirements for boilers will not be made until 2024 before the EU elections, two observers in Brussels said yesterday upon […]
The German government wants to cooperate more closely with other EU countries on tenders for renewable energies. “The Federal Government [is] actively engaged in gaining partners for further cooperation and is currently holding talks with Luxembourg and France in particular“, states the draft of Germany’s revised National Energy and Climate Plan (NECP), which was recently […]
As expected, Manfred Weber, leader of the EPP parliamentary group and party leader, will head the CSU list for the European elections. CSU party leader Markus Söder congratulated the 51-year-old following his unanimous nomination by the party executive. The other candidates are MEPs Angelika Niebler, Christian Doleschal, Monika Hohlmeier, and Markus Ferber. Member of Parliament […]
According to an expert assessment, the German agreement on industrial electricity must be approved by the EU Commission under state aid law. “The regulations on German electricity price compensation provided for in today’s electricity price package require an amendment to the German Electricity Price Compensation Directive“, Götz Reichert from the Center for European Policy (cep) […]