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Will clean coal be allowed to develop in Europe?

April 3, 2017 by Pieter Cleppe

EU and national energy policies are strongly focused on promoting the use of renewable energy. However, EU policymakers should not overlook progress being made in traditional energy sources, especially in coal power plants, writes Pieter Cleppe, head of the Brussels office of think tank Open Europe. According to Cleppe, a significant expansion of ‘clean coal’ – which involves both carbon capture and storage (CCS) and supercritical power plants – … [Read more...]

Filed Under: *, Energy, EU Policy, Oil, Gas & Coal Tagged With: CCS, clean coal, coal power, diversification, electricity market, Energiewende, energy security, energy transition, energy2030, EU energy policy, renewables

Politics and economics clash over Nord Stream 2

March 28, 2017 by Karel Beckman

At a dinner debate in Brussels on European relations with Russia, members of the European Parliament made it clear they regard Russia as an enemy which should be opposed in any possible way. That includes projects such as Gazprom’s planned Nord Stream 2 pipeline. Whether EU institutions have the means to stop Nord Stream 2, remains to be seen. … [Read more...]

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

Saudi Arabia “leaves oil behind” (says ex-oil minister Al-Naimi)

March 10, 2017 by Nehad Ismail

Is Saudi Arabia serious about making the change from the world’s biggest oil exporter to a significant producer – and exporter – of renewable energy? Time will tell, but the country is certainly taking serious first steps, writes Nehad Ismail. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: *, Energy, Oil, Gas & Coal, Renewables Tagged With: carbon bubble, climate change, diversification, energy trade, energy transition, geopolitics, oil, renewables, solar power

Energy Union should shift focus from energy to climate

February 22, 2017 by Stefan Bößner and Douglas Fraser

The EU is trying to improve its energy security by building more infrastructure to facilitate gas imports, but the concentration of its gas suppliers keeps increasing, write Stefan Bößner and Douglas Fraser of the Stockholm Environment Institute. According to Bößner and Fraser, it makes more sense to shift the focus of EU energy policy to creating a low-carbon energy system. That will not only help Europe meet its climate targets, but also … [Read more...]

Filed Under: *, Energy, EU Policy Tagged With: diversification, electricity market, energy efficiency, energy security, energy transition, EU energy policy, European gas market, financing, geopolitics, infrastructure, internal market, LNG, natural gas, renewables

Gazprom plays ball: the depoliticization of the European gas market

January 25, 2017 by Danila Bochkarev

Gazprom’s gas supplies to Europe and Turkey reached an all-time record in 2016. This might suggest Europe is becoming more dependent on Gazprom, but according to Danila Bochkarev, Senior Fellow at the EastWest Institute, the Russian company gained market share by playing by the rules of the market. The European gas market is finally becoming depoliticized. … [Read more...]

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

France can’t meet its own power demand

January 24, 2017 by Craig Morris

France was heavily dependent on power imports from Germany during the first cold spell of this winter, despite the fact that most of the country’s nuclear reactors are back online, writes Craig Morris from the Energy Transition blog. As the US is now also investigating 17 nuclear reactors with parts from reactor producer Areva, just rescued by the French state, it shows the perilous state the French power sector is in. Courtesy Energy Transition. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: *, Energy, Networks, Nuclear, Oil, Gas & Coal Tagged With: coal power, diversification, electricity market, energy security, energy trade, grid, infrastructure, internal market, natural gas, nuclear energy, renewables

The geopolitics of energy: renewables are not in the race yet

January 18, 2017 by Karel Beckman

At the Atlantic Council’s Global Energy Forum in Abu Dhabi on 12-13 January, oil executives, Middle Eastern energy ministers and experts in the geopolitics of energy came together to discuss the geopolitical implications of “the energy transformation”. Yet no one presented a vision of what a new global order, based on renewable energy, would look like, writes Karel Beckman, Energy Post’s editor-in-chief. The oil players all embrace renewable … [Read more...]

Filed Under: *, Climate policy, Energy, Oil, Gas & Coal, Renewables Tagged With: carbon bubble, climate change, coal power, diversification, electric cars, electricity market, energy storage, energy transition, geopolitics, natural gas, nuclear energy, renewables, solar power

Time to give the chop to fracking: Fraxit now!

December 14, 2016 by Peter Strachan and Alex Russell

On Tuesday the US Environmental Protection Agency released a definitive study concluding that hydraulic fracturing can impact drinking water at each stage in the shale gas production process. Do we really want to see 16,000 or more shale gas wells drilled in the British countryside carrying the same and other risks, ask professors Peter Strachan and Alex Russell?  They assess the case for fracking in the UK against six "stress tests" and conclude … [Read more...]

Filed Under: *, Energy, Oil, Gas & Coal Tagged With: diversification, energy security, energy transition, EU energy policy, financing, natural gas, renewables, shale gas, unconventionals

Open letter to policymakers: make Europe Renewable Energy World Leader by 2020

December 13, 2016 by Enrico Letta, Bertrand Piccard and Herman Van Rompuy

Europe should embark on a collective project to become the world leader in renewable energy by 2020, write Enrico Letta, President of the Jacques Delors Institute, Herman Van Rompuy, President Emeritus of the European Council and President of the European Policy Center and Bertrand Piccard, pilot of the Solar Impulse, in an open letter to policymakers. Such a leadership effort would go a long way to addressing a multitude of challenges facing … [Read more...]

Filed Under: *, Energy, EU Policy, Renewables Tagged With: diversification, electricity market, energy efficiency, energy security, energy transition, energy2030, EU energy policy, internal market, renewables, smart grids, sustainable mobility

Vietnam’s amazing nuclear journey – why it ended, what it means for South East Asia

November 29, 2016 by Jim Green

On November 22, Vietnam took the historic decision to scrap its nuclear power program, after many decades of nuclear preparations, up to a ground-breaking ceremony at the first proposed nuclear site in the country in 2014. Jim Green, editor of Nuclear Monitor, published by WISE (World Information Service on Energy), tells the amazing story of nuclear power in Vietnam – and discusses what the Vietnamese decision means for the prospects of nuclear … [Read more...]

Filed Under: *, Energy, Nuclear Tagged With: climate change, diversification, energy security, energy transition, financing, nuclear energy, renewables

EU is losing the energy battle with Russia

November 23, 2016 by Cyril Widdershoven

Europe’s grand strategy to become less import dependent on Russian gas, which has been discussed since the 1990s, looks more and more like a failure, as the new Russian Tsar, Vladimir Putin, is consistently wrong-footing the leaders of the EU, writes Cyril Widdershoven. … [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, geopolitics, internal market, LNG, natural gas, Russia

Why the future belongs to decentralised renewables, not centralised hydrogen and giga-scale nuclear

November 18, 2016 by John Mathews

What the future of our energy system will look like continues to be a subject of heated debate. According to one well-established tradition, writes Professor John Mathews of Macquarie University in Australia, the route to decarbonisation will run via massive nuclear power systems to the hydrogen economy. But China and to some extent India are emerging as the principal practitioners of an alternative vision of energy growth, underpinning their … [Read more...]

Filed Under: *, Climate policy, Energy, Energy Outlooks, Hydrogen, Nuclear, Oil, Gas & Coal, Renewables Tagged With: carbon bubble, climate change, diversification, energy security, energy transition, energy2030, geopolitics, grid, hydrogen, natural gas, nuclear energy, oil, renewables

The Nordic countries on Nord Stream 2: between scepticism and neutrality

November 3, 2016 by Justyna Gotkowska and Piotr Szymanski

Sweden, Finland and Denmark are unlikely to block or slow down the procedures of issuing national approvals for the construction of Nord Stream 2, write Justyna Gotkowska and Piotr Szymaṅski of OSW, the Centre for Eastern Studies, in Poland. But according to the authors the Nordic countries do expect the European Commission to assess the compliance of Nord Stream 2 with the EU’s Third Energy Package. In addition, Stockholm and Copenhagen in … [Read more...]

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

Who is afraid of Nord Stream 2?

October 24, 2016 by Karel Beckman

Nord Stream 2, the new gas pipeline that Gazprom is planning to build from Russia through the Baltic Sea to Germany, has been criticised for reducing Europe’s diversification of energy sources and energy security. But according to Energy Post’s editor in chief Karel Beckman, the EU should welcome the pipeline, despite deteriorating relations with Russia. According to Beckman, Nord Stream 2 has a sound economic rationale behind it and the EU’s … [Read more...]

Filed Under: *, Energy, Oil, Gas & Coal, Policies Tagged With: diversification, EU energy policy, financing, gas pipelines, geopolitics, infrastructure, internal market, LNG, natural gas, Russia

The collective effort behind Finland’s new nuclear power plant

October 20, 2016 by Eric Marx

Five years after announcing that it had chosen Pyhäjoki, in northern Finland, as the site for a new Russian-designed 1200 MW nuclear reactor, Finnish company Fennovoima is within sight of a 2018 construction start date. No, this is not the notorious Olkiluoto-3 EPR being builty by Areva– this is Hanhikivi 1, to be built by Rosatom. Journalist Eric Marx travelled to Finland to find out why Fennovoima is succeeding where other new nuclear projects … [Read more...]

Filed Under: *, Energy, Nuclear Tagged With: diversification, electricity market, energy security, energy transition, financing, geopolitics, infrastructure, nuclear energy

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