Peter Van Kemseke will be the new advisor on the Green Deal in the cabinet of Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. This was learned from the Commission by Europe.Table. The Belgian succeeds Kurt Vandenberghe, who took up his new post as Director-General of DG Climate on Monday.Van Kemseke previously supported Vandenberghe on energy issues. […]
According to the energy group Eon, the expansion of electricity distribution networks needs permanent facilitation of planning and approval procedures. “What good is the goal of approving a wind turbine in Germany in six months if we need eight to ten years for the line that transmits the electricity generated from it? That is far […]
The Swedish Council Presidency is asking the member states whether parts of the EU emergency regulations on gas supply should be integrated into the current amendment of the internal gas market regulation. Among other things, this involves the voluntary gas savings target from the emergency regulation (2022/1369), which can also become binding in the event […]
In the discussion about reforming the European electricity market, the German Ministry for Economic Affairs has welcomed a non-paper from the Spanish government. “Spain has made a very interesting proposal,” said Minister Robert Habeck (Greens) at a conference in Berlin on Monday. It would be possible to discuss the remuneration of renewable energies through contracts […]
The EU and Ukraine want to be independent of natural gas imports more quickly and advance climate protection in the long term through a hydrogen partnership. “The Russian war of aggression against Ukraine and its people has increased the urgent need to diversify energy supplies and end dependence on energy imports from Russia,” reads an […]
Portugal and Spain want to apply to the EU Commission for an extension of the so-called Iberian Model for subsidized electricity prices. The Spanish Ministry for the Ecological Transition announced yesterday that the subsidy scheme is to remain in force until the reform of the European electricity market has been implemented. The government in Madrid […]
The Swedish presidency wants to solve the EU’s competitiveness also by becoming more energy independent. “It’s not just about becoming independent from Russia, but also from other countries,” Energy Minister Ebba Busch said at the council on Dec. 13. The leader of Sweden’s Christian Democrats and deputy prime minister, whose minority government is tolerated by […]
The recommendation on how to deal with China trips that had been awaited for days was announced last night. After a meeting of the EU Integrated Political Crisis Response (IPCR), it was said that EU member states are “strongly encouraged” to introduce the requirement of a negative Covid test for all travelers before departure. Amelie Richter […]
Since November, electricity consumption in the EU states should have fallen by ten percent. In fact, electricity demand in Germany fell by only 7.6 percent in November and 4.4 percent in December. This was calculated by Europe.Table based on data from the Federal Network Agency.At the end of September, the EU’s energy ministers agreed on […]
The reform of the electricity market in the EU planned for 2023 is not supposed to be a transitional measure. Energy Commissioner Kadri Simson confirmed this in interviews with European media. “This is something that will define our electricity grids for decades. And we cannot treat it as an emergency measure,” Simson told the Financial […]