March 22, 2018 by Edith Bayer and Richard Cowart

Small, coal-fired district heating systems are a major source of air pollution in Poland. Applying EU regulations would go some way towards solving this problem, write Edith Bayer and Richard Cowart of global energy policy advisors Regulatory Assistance Project (RAP), but more needs to be done. Bayer and Cowart draw four lessons from a new study that looked at practical ways to modernize two small district heating systems in Poland. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Climate policy, Energy, EU Policy, Oil, Gas & Coal, Policies, Renewables Tagged With: climate change, coal power, energy efficiency, energy transition, EU energy policy

December 15, 2016 by Jan Rosenow and Edith Bayer

The European Commission’s recently released Clean Energy Package, has a 2030 target of 30% energy savings. An important policy instrument to deliver these are Energy Efficiency Obligation (EEO) schemes. According to new research from the Regulatory Assistance Project (RAP), not only are EEOs a highly cost-effective way to deliver energy efficiency, over the long term they can deliver consumer savings worth more than 4 times the costs of meeting … [Read more...]

Filed Under: *, Energy, Energy efficiency, EU Policy Tagged With: electricity market, energy efficiency, energy security, energy transition, EU energy policy, financing, smart grids