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Charging an electric vehicle is far cleaner than driving on gasoline

March 28, 2018 by Silvio Marcacci

Contrary to what many critics claim, research shows that driving an EV produces significantly fewer greenhouse gas emissions than cars powered only by gasoline, writes Silvio Marcacci of think tank Energy Innovation in San Francisco. And much less pollution.  This will only get better as the electricity mix becomes cleaner.  … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Climate policy, Energy, Markets, Oil, Gas & Coal, Renewables, Transport and energy Tagged With: climate change, coal power, electric cars, energy transition, oil, renewables, solar power, sustainable mobility, transport, US energy policy, wind power

Shaking up the German energy market: the Eon and RWE deal

March 27, 2018 by Marius Buchmann

The recent deal between German utilities RWE and Eon will lead to a concentration of power in the different segments of the energy market, writes Marius Buchmann of Jacobs University in Bremen. According to Buchmann, the big question is whether the new companies will become innovation engines or will impose new market entry barriers.  Article courtesy of Buchmann’s blog Enerquire. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Climate policy, Energy, Oil, Gas & Coal, Policies, Renewables Tagged With: climate change, coal power, diversification, electricity market, Energiewende, energy trade, energy transition, EU energy policy, financing, grid, renewables

Southeast Europe needs more nuclear power to head off energy crisis

March 26, 2018 by Tim Yeo

Southeast Europe is headed for an energy crisis. The region has an energy infrastructure that is unreliable, inefficient, and unsustainable, while at the same time it is faced with the need to reduce dependence on external sources and conform to EU climate and air quality regulations. The best way out, argues Tim Yeo, Chairman of the New Nuclear Watch Institute, is to invest in new nuclear capacity. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: *, Energy, EU Policy, Nuclear Tagged With: coal power, electricity market, energy transition, energy union, EU energy policy, European gas market, nuclear energy, renewables

Small district heating systems key to improving Poland’s air quality

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

China’s green energy revolution has saved the country from catastrophic dependence on fossil fuel imports

March 21, 2018 by John Mathews and Xin Huang

China’s shift to green energy has made a huge contribution to reducing the country’s dependence on imported fossil fuels, write researchers John A. Mathews and Xin Huang. But for China’s renewables revolution, the world would have faced potentially catastrophic geopolitical tensions over oil and gas. Courtesy John Mathews’ Global Green Shift blog. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Climate policy, Energy, Oil, Gas & Coal, Renewables Tagged With: China, climate change, coal power, energy transition, natural gas, nuclear energy, oil, renewables, solar power, wind power

How German Energiewende’s renewables integration points the way

March 12, 2018 by Michael Hogan, Camille Kadoch, Carl Linvill and Megan O’Reilly

The experience of the German Energiewende shows that increasing amounts of renewable energy on the power system, while at the same time reducing inflexible baseload generation, does not harm reliability write Michael Hogan, Camille Kadoch, Carl Linvill and Megan O’Reilly of the Regulatory Assistance Project (RAP). American policymakers who are still skeptical can look across the Atlantic, to Germany, for a concrete example of a successful … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Climate policy, Energy, Nuclear, Oil, Gas & Coal, Policies, Renewables Tagged With: climate change, coal power, energy transition, grid, renewables, solar power, US energy policy, wind power

Katowice: A European coal capital goes green

March 5, 2018 by Richard Fuchs

This year the UN Climate Conference, COP24, will be held in Katowice, the heart of Polish coal mining. Critics wonder how negotiating an end to fossil fuels could be done successfully in an environment like this, but according to freelance reporter Richard Fuchs change is in the air in Katowice. Courtesy Energy Transition/Global Energiewende. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Climate policy, Energy, Oil, Gas & Coal, Policies, Renewables Tagged With: climate change, coal power, COP24, energy transition, EU energy policy, renewables, solar power, wind power

U.S. energy dominance: markets trump policy in 2017

February 28, 2018 by Anna Mikulska and Michael Maher

The 2017 growth in U.S. oil and gas industry is tied to market forces and already existing liberal trade policies; energy-specific policies introduced by the current administration were not a significant driver, write Anna Mikulska and Michael Maher of the Baker Institute’s Center for Energy Studies. The authors expect that federal energy policies will continue to play a supporting but subordinate role to markets and state-level policies, and see … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Markets, Oil, Gas & Coal, Policies Tagged With: climate change, coal power, energy trade, energy transition, financing, geopolitics, LNG, natural gas, oil, US energy policy

Is India’s coal power sector set to crash?

February 23, 2018 by Silvio Marcacci

King Coal’s reign in India is about to come crashing down, writes Silvio Marcacci, Communications Director at think tank Energy Innovation. Coal supplied 80% of India’s total power mix in 2016-2017, but economics have flipped the country’s energy equation – new renewable energy is now cheaper to build than running most existing coal-fired power plants. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Climate policy, Energy, Oil, Gas & Coal, Policies, Renewables Tagged With: climate change, coal power, electricity market, energy transition, India, renewables, solar power, wind power

The militarization of U.S. energy policy: Donald Trump enlists fossil fuels in the struggle for global dominance

February 19, 2018 by Michael T. Klare

As the recently published National Security Strategy shows, Donald Trump has turned the expansion of the U.S. fossil fuel industry and its exports into a major component of American foreign and security policy, writes energy expert and author Michael T. Klare. In the view of the Trump administration, anyone that stands in the way of American exploitation of oil, gas and coal resources is viewed as an obstructer of the national interest, notes … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Climate policy, Energy, Oil, Gas & Coal, Policies, Renewables Tagged With: climate change, coal, coal power, energy transition, geopolitics, LNG, natural gas, oil, renewables, shale gas, Ukraine, unconventionals, US energy policy

EU ties itself into knots with capacity market decisions [Energy Post Weekly]

February 13, 2018 by Sonja van Renssen

On 7 February the European Commission approved six new capacity mechanisms in the name of security of supply, insisting that they will not distort the Single Market. Two problems: one, the national decisons come as the EU tries to negotiate Europe-wide power market rules for the next decade. Two, the Commission wants those market rules to exclude coal plants from public support - when it has just authorised Poland to give state aid in the form of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: *, Energy, EU Policy Tagged With: capacity markets, climate change, coal power, demand response, electricity market, energy security, energy transition, EU energy policy, internal market

Energy storage does not always make the electric grid cleaner

February 13, 2018 by Naga Srujana Goteti, Eric Hittinger and Eric Williams

Energy storage can help grids use more wind and solar power, but it does not always reduce carbon emissions, write Naga Srujana Goteti, Eric Hittinger and Eric Williams of the University of Rochester. In some cases, adding storage actually even increases carbon emissions. This happens when consumption is shifted to periods when coal power is used more. Article courtesy The Conversation. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Oil, Gas & Coal, Renewables Tagged With: coal power, electricity market, energy storage, energy transition, grid, renewables, solar power, US energy policy, wind power

A step backwards – European Member states threaten to reverse progress on the Single Electricity Market

February 12, 2018 by Philip Baker and Christos Kolokathis

The European Council’s proposals on the internal energy market fundamentally weaken the framework that is needed to deliver an integrated market that will benefit European energy consumers, write Philip Baker and Christos Kolokathis from the global energy policy advisors Regulatory Assistance Project (RAP). They may even legalise practices that are currently – and should remain – illegal. The authors call on European policymakers to support the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: *, Energy, EU Policy Tagged With: capacity markets, climate change, coal power, electricity market, energy transition, energy union, EU energy policy, EU ETS, European gas market, financing, grid, infrastructure, internal market, renewables

Germany to set end date for coal power in 2019

February 8, 2018 by Kerstine Appunn, Benjamin Wehrmann and Julian Wettengel

Germany’s  coalition partners have concluded a treaty that may set a final deadline for coal-fired power production in Germany, Clean Energy Wire reports. A commission will decide the timeline for phasing out coal, under a coalition deal agreed between the social democrats and Angela Merkel’s conservatives.  … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Climate policy, Energy, News, Policies, Renewables Tagged With: coal power, Energiewende, energy transition, Germany, Merkel, renewables

New German government adopts coal phase-out in all but name

February 6, 2018 by Jon Berntsen and Anders Nordeng

The coalition accord between Angela Merkel and Martin Schulz includes an increase in the renewables target in the electricity mix from 50% to 65% by 2030. Jon Berntsen and Anders Nordeng of Thomson Reuters Point Carbon have analysed how this will impact the German energy sector and conclude that it is a coal phaseout policy in all but name. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: *, Energy, EU Policy, News, Oil, Gas & Coal, Renewables Tagged With: carbon trading, climate change, coal power, electricity market, energy transition, energy2030, EU ETS, renewables

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