In a guest article for the Atlantic Council think tank, Energy Commissioner Dan Jørgensen calls for continuity in the EU’s relations with the USA on energy security issues. In the piece published on Thursday, Jørgensen only mentions direct cooperation in the field of renewable energies in passing. First and foremost, he mentions the joint support […]
The Hungarian Kata Tüttő is the new President of the European Committee of the Regions. The Social Democrat was previously Deputy Mayor of Budapest and Chairwoman of the city’s water company. Her first deputy on the Committee will be the conservative President of the Spanish region of Andalusia, Juan Manuel Moreno Bonilla. He and Tüttő […]
The EU Commission’s announced strategy for heating and cooling will also include recommendations on where EU citizens can best use heat pumps. “One of the big questions is where to choose heat pumps and where to choose district heating. There are often good arguments for both. Answering some of these questions must also be part […]
According to a new article by the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University, intervention by the EU Commission to increase imports of American liquefied natural gas this year is unnecessary. “Higher EU imports of US LNG in 2025 will likely come about for two market-driven reasons that have nothing to do with policy,” […]
The Brussels think tank Bruegel sees little chance of a new EU plan to reduce gas prices. In the draft of the Clean Industrial Deal, the EU Commission held out the prospect that it or the member states could support projects to export liquefied natural gas in the producing countries – for example, through subsidized […]
The omnibus law to reduce bureaucracy in the sustainability sector should not lead to a reversal of political goals, according to the red-green federal government. The planned law is “welcomed, provided that the objectives of the Green Deal and the existing protection standards are maintained,” writes the German government in a six-page non-paper on the […]
According to the Greens in Parliament, the Commission’s action plan on affordable energy prices should include guidelines on energy sharing. “Sharing is an enabler of flexibility and can reduce electricity prices,” says Michael Bloss, climate and energy policy spokesperson for the Greens. If a lot of wind power is fed into the grid locally, it […]
Commission Vice-President Teresa Ribera wants to approve aid for climate-friendly investments until the end of 2030 under a simplified procedure, thereby also meeting a demand from the outgoing German government. Corresponding regulations from the TCTF crisis framework, which is limited until the end of the year, are to be extended for this purpose. This is […]
In view of the rise in gas prices, there is growing resistance to the EU’s 2022 storage targets. Member states must fill their storage facilities to 90 percent by November 1 in order to guarantee the security of supply for the coming winter. Interim targets will apply for each state starting in February. However, following […]
A specter has returned to the economic policy debate. Some in the EU Commission apparently want to cap the high energy prices by law, or at least more and more associations are warning against this. Initially, it was the gas industry in agreement with the financial sector, but yesterday the electricity industry repeated its warning: […]