Operators must be more transparent about the consequences of climate change for the security of the European power grid. The European regulatory agency ACER in Ljubljana yesterday called on the association of transmission system operators ENTSOE to do so. The EU authority published its assessment of ENTSOE’s draft ten-year network development plan on Wednesday.It was […]
Danish MEP Morten Petersen will be the Renew Group’s shadow rapporteur on electricity market reform. Petersen made the announcement yesterday on Twitter. For the EPP, the Portuguese MEP Maria da Graça Carvalho will take on this role, as she already announced last week. Carvalho will also be rapporteur for the second reform dossier, the Regulation […]
The USA reportedly wants to support the EU in becoming less dependent on Russian nuclear technology and fuel for its energy supply. Both sides plan to strengthen their cooperation accordingly, they announced yesterday after the regular EU-US Energy Council. In addition, a joint event on the development of Small Modular Reactors (SMR) and other advanced […]
By 2030, the EU must achieve a renewables target of 42.5 percent instead of 32 percent. This was agreed by the negotiators in Brussels on Thursday morning in the last trilogue on the Renewable Energy Directive (RED) after a long night of negotiations. At the suggestion of the Swedish Council Presidency, a voluntary surcharge of […]
The EU energy ministers had to negotiate a controversial package solution yesterday. After Germany had pushed the other states ahead on e-fuels, the dispute over France’s wish to count nuclear energy towards the EU’s renewables targets came to a head yesterday. Immediately before the Council, the two camps thus met in two separate rounds.France’s Energy […]
When the European Council begins today, some power plays will have already been settled – those concerning the agenda. Some heads of state and government are eager to push issues such as trade and nuclear energy, or would prefer not to deal with them at all. Till Hoppe and Eric Bonse preview the most pressing […]
In the event of future energy crises, the EU states want to retain the permanent option of setting low gas prices, even for small and medium-sized enterprises. This emerges from the latest draft of the Swedish Council Presidency on the amendment of the Gas Market Directive from Tuesday, which is available to Table.Media. The seventh […]
The EU member states are to save more gas in the upcoming summer, according to the Commission. Analogous to the previous year, the member states could face additional savings in the order of seven billion cubic meters (bcm) of gas. This is the result of a draft regulation published yesterday and the analysis of Eurostat […]
Yesterday, the EU Commission presented its proposals for reforming the electricity market. Instead of a departure from the previous market design, the package on electricity market design only provides for selective further developments of previous directives and regulations:Location criteria removed, risks for electricity customers remainBy contrast, the Commission removed a rather specific but politically sensitive […]
For days, a fierce media dispute has been raging about the European Buildings Directive. “The whole approach is nuts,” FDP MEP Andreas Glück scolded in advance in the German newspaper “Bild“. Today, Parliament votes on its position for the trilogue, where there are 67 amendments to the compromise proposal – many of which came from […]