Due to high procurement costs for gas, member states have reservations about the EU Commission’s legislative initiative on strategic gas storage. At a meeting of the Council’s Energy Working Group on Monday, according to Europe.Table information from EU circles, some countries with large storage capacities complained of insufficient financial burden-sharing if they are to stockpile […]
The core of the circular economy package presented on Wednesday is the amendment of the Ecodesign Directive (Europe.Table reported). While for years only energy efficiency requirements applied to energy-related products, in the future, almost all product groups will have to meet extensive sustainability criteria – from the recycled content of materials to reparability. “European consumers […]
The EU Commission is focusing on greater use of heat generation from solar energy. “Now is the moment to focus more on solar thermal – also in industrial processes,” said Hans van Steen, Acting Director on Renewables, Research, Innovation, and Energy Efficiency in the Directorate General for Energy, at an event on the planned solar […]
Faced with rising energy prices, British utility provider National Grid sells a majority stake in its gas division to focus on its electricity business. A 60 percent stake in the gas pipeline and metering business will go to Australian investor Macquarie Asset Management and Canadian pension fund British Columbia Investment Management, National Grid said Sunday. […]
Qatar, an internationally courted oil and gas producer, is dampening Germany and other Western nations’ expectations that their dependence on supplies from Russia will end quickly. He does not think Qatar can help immediately, Energy Minister Saad al-Kaabi said Saturday at a conference in the Qatari capital Doha. No one can replace Russian supplies at […]
“For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power.” What the US president said Saturday night in Warsaw about hopes for a change of power in the Kremlin still caused a verbal back-and-forth between Washington and Moscow over the weekend. Whether it was a slip of the tongue or deliberate ambiguity on the part of […]
The rendez-vous is scheduled to take place at 9 a.m. today at the US ambassador’s residence in Brussels. President Joe Biden and Ursula von der Leyen plan to present a deal there on supplies of liquefied natural gas to Europe, which the US hopes will help Europe replace Russian gas supplies. On the sidelines of […]
Germany is threatening to fall short of the EU’s expectations in the struggle to refill gas storage facilities. By October, those 18 member states on whose territory gas storage facilities are located are to fill the reservoirs to 90 percent. By February 1 of next year, German storage facilities are to be at least 55 […]
Norway is helping the whole European continent to quickly refill its gas storage facilities and is bringing forward gas deliveries to the summer months. Germany and Norway also agreed on Wednesday to cooperate on hydrogen imports, the Federal Ministry of Economics announced at the end of a trip to the country by department head Robert […]
Full gas storage facilities have gained strategic importance since Russia’s war of aggression. Norway is now specifically postponing the overhaul of a production facility in order to maintain the level of natural gas exports in the summer. Germany is forging ahead with the gas of the future and now wants to assess the construction of […]