BREXIT: end of the Energy Union?

Energy efficiency to become “guiding principle” in all EU activities

The European Commission promises that “Efficiency First” will become – in the words of Vice-President for the Energy Union Maroš Šefčovič – a “guiding principle for the Energy Union”. For energy suppliers it means they will have to rethink their entire business model…

#1 The time for carbon market reform is now
#2 Make or break for French nuclear industry
#3 This time electric cars are really going to happen
#4 Energy and water: time for action is now

• Running out of gas

• Cultural energy wars

• Post-Paris reality sinking in

• The Dutch offshore wind connection

• European electricity competition: wins, losses and draws

Power to the people – Europe’s uphill battle to connect with the consumer

Europe is at a loss on how to engage the energy consumer, EU Sustainable Energy Week in Brussels showed. France wants to try smart meters, but consumers are barely interested. Germany doesn’t think much of smart meters either. Meanwhile in Florence, at the Electricity Regulatory Forum, real ideas for reform came up…

#1 Renewables: rocking all over the world – from Germany to Morocco, from Dubai to Peru
#2 The Voice of Renewables – make it a contest, not an award
#3 European energy to TTIP: we don’t need you anymore
#4 I’m in love with my Hydrogen Fuel Cell car

BACK TO REALITY

• Challenging science

• BP statistical Review: the hard energy facts

• German and Danish backtracking on renewables

• Renewables support: let’s move to auctioning

• North Sea full of wind turbines

• Gazprom’s record exports

THE BIG CHILL

why the European Energy Union is on hold

The fear of terrist attacks and the spectre of a Brexit are putting a chill on activities in Brussels, including the great Energy Union project. But there are deeper reasons too why the Energy Union, one of the top priorities of the European Commission, is running into profound difficulties…

#1 Going for gas – a shaky strategy?
#2 Going it alone in the carbon market
#3 Going for the least-cost option in energy efficiency – daft!
#4 Should they saty or should they go?

• Policymakers, read this IEA report!

• Total’s climate jump

• Trump’s energy wall

• A nuclear confession

• Apple’s energy drive

• Gazprom’s record exports

ETS Reform: what does it mean for the carbon price?

MEP Ian Duncan (in charge of ETS) opens the door to more ambitious emissions cuts in the wake of Paris and beefs up a new Innovation Fund. He suggests “tiered” approach to carbon leakage giving some industries more free allowances than others…

#1 Hair-raising inefficiency of Chinese and Indian power systems
#2 Nord Stream 2: a question of self-confidence
#3 Do we need nuclear power to save the world?
#4 Petro-states are going broke – should we feel sorry?