The European Commission has presented guidelines to persuade Europe’s 28 governments to limit, rationalise and Europeanise their intervention in the electricity market through national renewable and capacity support schemes. This guidance could make renewable schemes more cost-effective, but shows little sense of the urgency needed to address the increasingly dire situation of conventional back-up capacity […]
The European Union’s integrated energy and climate policy is coming apart. This is due to the effects of recession, and the impact of national renewable energy and back-up generation schemes, on the EU blueprint for a single energy market. New Commission guidelines will seek to Europeanize these national schemes, but this Europeanization effort assumes faster […]
Germany has set itself a huge challenge in trying to move away from fossil fuels and abandon nuclear power, while remaining a major industrial power. This challenge to create an Energiewende – an energy turnaround or transformation – has ambitious targets. David Buchan argues that Germany is on track to meet only one of its […]
Utilization of Scenarios in European Electricity Policy: The Ten-Year Network Development Plan https://t.co/vThBD9X36P
December 12th
New OIES study on China’s use of Natural Gas, LNG to tackle air pollution: As of August 2018, China had 18 receivin… https://t.co/XIqu9VqDxT
December 11th
New OIES study on China’s use of natural gas and LNG to tackle air pollution: Natural gas has witnessed growth in a… https://t.co/s0ZlK3iQAp
December 11th
