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Egypt’s $60 billion bet on nuclear energy

May 1, 2018 by Dan Yurman

Rosatom’s recent deal with Egypt to build a 4800 MW capacity nuclear plant is one of the largest nuclear energy deals in this century, writes Dan Yurman nuclear energy specialist and author of the Neutron Bytes blog. It is one of several giant nuclear projects taking shape in the Middle East, Yurman notes. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, News, Nuclear Tagged With: diversification, electricity market, energy security, financing, geopolitics, natural gas, nuclear energy, Russia

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

A grand bargain with Gazprom?

March 7, 2018 by Karel Beckman

Can Europe, including the Eastern part, continue to profit from cheap Russian gas without succumbing to Russian energy dominance? According to a new paper from the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies (OIES), the EU should not shy away from “countervailing measures”. But these should preferably take the form of a “grand bargain” with Russia rather than a confrontation. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, EU Policy, Oil, Gas & Coal Tagged With: diversification, energy security, energy trade, energy union, EU energy policy, European gas market, internal market, natural gas, Russia

Meet the new ‘renewable superpowers’: nations that boss the materials used for wind and solar

February 26, 2018 by Andrew Barron

Countries that create green energy infrastructure now, before political and economic control shifts to a new group of “renewable superpowers”, will be less susceptible to outside influence in the future, writes Andrew Barron, a professor of Swansea University. Article courtesy The Conversation. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Oil, Gas & Coal, Policies, Renewables, Resources Tagged With: diversification, energy security, energy transition, geopolitics, natural gas, oil, renewables, solar power, wind power

Europe’s biggest fossil fuel project gets €1.5bn public loan

February 7, 2018 by Karl Mathiesen

The European Investment Bank has approved a loan to the Southern Gas Corridor, in a move environmentalists described as a “historical mistake”, writes Karl Mathiesen of Climate Home News. The move brings the total public backing for Europe's biggest fossil fuel project to $3.5 billion. Courtesy Climate Home News. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: *, Energy, EU Policy, News, Oil, Gas & Coal Tagged With: climate change, diversification, energy trade, energy union, EU energy policy, European gas market, gas pipelines

Exclusive interview Maros Ơefčovič: Energy Union is “deepest transformation of energy systems since Industrial Revolution”

January 8, 2018 by Clare Taylor

Before the next European elections in 2019, MaroĆĄ Ć efčovič , the European Commission’s Vice-President for the Energy Union, wants to have a new legal framework in place which will “bring in the most comprehensive and deepest transformation of energy systems in Europe, since the [industrial revolution] one hundred and fifty years ago.” In an exclusive interview with Energy Post, he says that the success of the Energy Union project “will decide the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: *, Energy, EU Policy Tagged With: climate change, diversification, electricity market, energy security, energy trade, energy transition, energy union, energy2030, EU energy policy, European gas market, natural gas, renewables

Lost in regulation: the EU and Nord Stream 2

November 13, 2017 by Severin Fischer

The European Commission has proposed changing the Gas Market Directive to include import pipelines from third countries. This would make EU regulations, such as unbundling and third-party access rules, applicable to Nord Stream 2. According to Severin Fischer, Senior Researcher at the Center for Security Studies (CSS) at ETH Zurich, the Commission’s approach to Gazprom’s pipeline project risks getting lost in legal inconsistencies. Fischer … [Read more...]

Filed Under: *, Energy, EU Policy, Oil, Gas & Coal Tagged With: diversification, energy security, EU energy policy, European gas market, geopolitics, natural gas, Russia

Shell, BP climate disclosures ‘just a marketing tool’, says ShareAction

November 1, 2017 by Kyla Mandel

Two years after BP and Shell shareholders resoundingly passed resolutions requiring the oil majors to factor climate change risks into their corporate strategy and accounting, the two companies are disclosing no more than bare minimum, a new report from a U.K.-based NGO has found. Article by Kyla Mandel of DeSmog. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: *, Climate policy, Energy, News, Oil, Gas & Coal Tagged With: carbon bubble, climate change, diversification, energy transition, EU energy policy, financing, natural gas, oil, renewables

Interview Claude Fischer Herzog: “EU needs a nuclear industrial policy”

September 26, 2017 by Clare Taylor

Europe is in danger of losing its leading position in nuclear power, warns Claude Fischer Herzog, Director of ASCPE-Les Entretiens EuropĂ©ens et Eurafricains, a prominent Paris-based pro-nuclear civil society organisation. Fischer calls on the EU to develop an industrial policy of which nuclear power will form an integral part. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: *, Energy, EU Policy, Nuclear Tagged With: climate change, diversification, electricity market, energy security, energy transition, EU energy policy, financing, nuclear energy

A dangerous energy policy: Ukraine, despite war, is making itself dependent on Russian oil

September 8, 2017 by Wojciech KonoƄczuk

When it comes to Ukrainian dependence on Russian energy, the spotlight is usually on natural gas. Here Ukraine has made unprecedented progress, writes Wojciech KonoƄczuk, analyst at the Centre for Eastern Studies (OSW) in Warsaw. But what few observers notice, KonoƄczuk adds, is that as a result of corruption and neglect Ukraine has let its domestic oil refining industry decay and has become critically dependent on Russian diesel and LPG … [Read more...]

Filed Under: *, Energy, EU Policy, Oil, Gas & Coal Tagged With: diversification, energy security, EU energy policy, European gas market, financing, geopolitics, oil, Russia

Energy wonks have a meltdown over the US going 100 percent renewable. Why?

June 30, 2017 by Joshua Rhodes

In the U.S. a furious debate has erupted among academic energy experts about whether the country could run 100% on renewable energy. Joshua D. Rhodes, Postdoctoral Researcher of Energy at the University of Texas, Austin, explains what is going on and offers some thoughts of his own. Courtesy The Conversation. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: *, Energy, Policies, Renewables Tagged With: climate change, coal power, diversification, electricity market, energy transition, financing, hydropower, renewables, solar power, US energy policy, wind power

The fall and rise of nuclear power

June 22, 2017 by Robert Hargraves

The United States has allowed itself to fall behind in nuclear power technology and market development, writes author and thorium expert Robert Hargraves. Regulations have unnecessarily driven up costs of nuclear power and scared the public. According to Hargraves, to revive the nuclear sector, the first steps that needs to be taken are to fight historical fear-creating radiation regulations with science, and to replace the federal regulator, the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: *, Energy, Nuclear Tagged With: diversification, electricity market, financing, geopolitics, nuclear energy, US energy policy

EU’s Mediterranean neighbours struggle with energy transition

June 19, 2017 by Sonja van Renssen

Taking a cue from the EU, members of the Arab League have adopted renewable energy and energy efficiency plans and targets. But they lack incentives and a stable policy framework to drive growth. “There are local initiatives, but no process to underpin an energy transition”. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: *, Energy, EU Policy, Renewables Tagged With: diversification, energy security, energy transition, EU energy policy, financing, infrastructure, renewables, solar power, wind power

The woman who is building a nuclear power plant

June 9, 2017 by Karel Beckman

Minna Forsström is responsible for a unique project: the first Russian-made nuclear power plant to be built in the E.U. outside of the former Soviet Union. In a personal interview with Energy Post, she reveals how her company, Fennovoima, has coped with extremely demanding regulatory challenges (“you can’t expect to submit a project and have it approved all in one go”), why they chose to work with Rosatom (“they have huge engineering capacity and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: *, Energy, Nuclear Tagged With: climate change, diversification, energy security, energy trade, energy transition, EU energy policy, internal market, nuclear energy, Russia

Do we need an Airbus for nuclear?

April 10, 2017 by Jessica Lovering, Josh Freed, Ted Nordhaus and Todd Allen

Author and pro-nuclear activist Michael Shellenberger recently wrote that the nuclear sector, to survive, must embark on a radical new course: create one company, comparable to Airbus in the aircraft sector, that will develop a standardized, efficient reactor design.  Josh Freed and Todd Allen of think tank the Third Way and Ted Nordhaus and Jessica Lovering of think tank The Breakthrough Institute argue that this approach will not solve … [Read more...]

Filed Under: *, Energy Tagged With: climate change, diversification, electricity market, energy transition, financing, nuclear energy, US energy policy

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