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Europe: preventing a “carbon wall” between the West and the ten Central and Eastern EU nations

May 12, 2023 by Diana-Paula Gherasim

Diana-Paula Gherasim at the IFRI Centre for Energy & Climate summarises her 36-page data-rich report on the progress and challenges for the ten Central and Eastern EU (CEECs) countries in decarbonisation. The Russian invasion of Ukraine has focussed all minds on energy security and the best solutions: less fossils, efficiency gains and clean energy made in the EU. Gherasim says that vitally important progress is being made in avoiding a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Oil, Gas & Coal, Renewables Tagged With: Austria, Bulgaria, CEECs, CleanEnergyPackage, coal, Czechia, decarbonisation, EmissionAllowances, Energy, Estonia, EU, Europe, EUSovereigntyFund, finance, gas, Germany, GreenDeal, Hungary, innovation, Latvia, Lithuania, LNG, Nuclear, Poland, policies, Romania, Russia, security, Slovakia, Slovenia, subsidies

Analysis: U.S. IRA subsidies put two-thirds of Europe’s battery production pipeline at risk

March 9, 2023 by Transport & Environment

Major battery manufacturing projects earmarked for Europe are now looking to site themselves in the U.S. to take advantage of its IRA subsidies, according to a new report by T&E. It says over two-thirds of lithium-ion battery production planned for Europe – a pipeline potential of 1.8 TWh - is now at risk of being delayed, scaled down or cancelled. The nations most at risk of losing the business are Germany, Hungary, Spain, Italy, the UK and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Storage Tagged With: batteries, electricity, emobility, Energy, EU, EVs, Germany, gigafactories, grids, Hungary, IRA, Italy, Norway, spain, storage, subsidies, UK, US

Russia–Ukraine war: household energy costs worldwide have nearly doubled, with the poorest hit hardest

March 2, 2023 by Klaus Hubacek, Jin Yan, Yuli Shan and Yuru Guan

A new study measures the effect of the Russia-Ukraine war on household energy costs worldwide. It’s nearly doubled, explain Klaus Hubacek, Jin Yan and Yuru Guan at the University of Groningen and Yuli Shan at the University of Birmingham. Their study sums the costs of direct energy like heating, cooling, lighting and mobility, as well as the indirect costs through the energy used to produce goods and services. That doubling translates into an … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Oil, Gas & Coal Tagged With: cooling, costs, Energy, goods, heating, JustTransition, lighting, mobility, poverty, Russia, services, Ukraine

Will the computing power needed for self-driving cars create a carbon emissions problem akin to data centres?

February 22, 2023 by Adam Zewe

Few predicted, in their early days, that the scale-up of data centres would result in them having a measurable impact on global energy consumption. Today they contribute 0.3% of global emissions. That’s a big enough number to put it on the global radar and for the IEA to be monitoring it. Will the wide scale take-up of autonomous vehicles have the same effect? Yes, explains Adam Zewe at MIT who describes new research from there. In summary, one … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Transport and energy Tagged With: autonomous, cameras, cars, centres, consumption, data, efficiency, Energy, hardware, processing, vehicles

Gas: a history of Energy Security in the EU. And what’s next post-Russia?

February 14, 2023 by James Kneebone

The security of supply of gas has been the hottest topic of the last 12 months since Russia invaded Ukraine. James Kneebone at the Florence School of Regulation (FSR) has written an explainer that lays out the EU’s history of dealing with energy security, going back to the 1990s. Because the EU has a single market for natural gas and widely shared value chains (pipelines, LNG terminals, storage, etc.), impacts are felt across the bloc. But that … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Oil, Gas & Coal Tagged With: Energy, EU, gas, LNG, market, pipelines, regulations, Russia, security, storage, terminals, Ukraine

Electricity Market Design: how can reforms accelerate the transition and help cut energy prices?

February 13, 2023 by Simon Göss

*** REGISTER NOW *** for our online panel discussion on Friday 24th March 09:30-10:45 CET, “Electricity Market Design: how can reforms accelerate the transition and help cut energy prices?” Our panellists are Catharina Sikow-Magny, Director, DG ENER; Wanda Buk, Vice-President for Regulatory Affairs, PGE; Leonardo Meeus, Director of the Florence School of Regulation; JĂ©rĂ´me Le Page, Director for European Electricity Markets, EFET; Michaela … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Markets Tagged With: capacity, design, electricity, Energy, JustTransition, market, prices, reform, renewables, Russia, Ukraine

EU ETS and CBAM: what the big update to emissions trading rules means for Europe’s key sectors

January 16, 2023 by Simon Göss

The EU’s Emissions Trading Scheme is a vital part of the region’s decarbonisation plans. Simon Göss at carboneer digs into the new rules coming in for the existing EU ETS, and the implementation of the new carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM). Right now, the existing EU ETS covers around 40% of the EU’s emissions (energy sector, industrial installations and aviation). Its scope is being extended to include maritime transport. On top of that, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Industry, Policies Tagged With: aluminium, aviation, CBAM, cement, chemicals, electricity, emissions, Energy, ETS, EU, EUA, EUETS, fertilisers, hydrogen, industry, iron, maritime, polymers, steel, transport

How Europe is countering Russia’s weaponisation of energy – CEDE 2022 event summary

December 12, 2022 by Simon Göss

Simon Göss provides a written summary of our two panel discussions held in Brussels on Thursday December 8th 2022. Panel 1 was titled “The Availability and Affordability of Gas and Energy in CEE and EU”, Panel 2 “The War in Ukraine: Security of Critical Energy Infrastructure”. The issues covered include EU policy interventions for countering the Russian weaponisation of energy, cooperation with Ukraine, how far is Europe prepared, spill-over … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Events, Policies Tagged With: Energy, gas, industry, infrastructure, Nuclear, prices, renewables, Russia, security, storage, Ukraine

Russia-Ukraine: Critical Infrastructure Protection from sabotage is an unprecedented challenge the EU must face now

November 29, 2022 by Frank Umbach

### REGISTER NOW ### for our vitally important 2-panel event “The Energy Crisis and Russian Aggression Against Ukraine - Key Challenges for the Central European Energy Sector”, on Thursday December 8, 13:00 – 17:00 CET (Address: Rue Belliard 40, 1040 Brussels). High-profile confirmed speakers include Kadri Simson, European Commissioner for Energy, EC; Leszek JesieĹ„, Chairman of the Board, CEEP; Jerzy Buzek, MEP and former president of the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Policies Tagged With: cables, critical, Energy, EU, Europe, infrastructure, Nordstream, pipelines, Russia, sabotage, security, Ukraine, US

Wave Energy Converter performance tool, publicly available online

October 26, 2022 by Tiffany Plate

Advancements in wave energy technology (WEC) have been slow, mainly because of the harsh marine environments WECs must operate in, as well as the complex regulatory requirements. Tiffany Plate at NREL explains it’s why the U.S. Department of Energy and NREL have collaborated on the Small WEC Analysis tool, publicly available online. Its purpose is to provide baseline information about the performance of different types of WECs in various ocean … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Renewables Tagged With: absorbers, attenuators, Energy, innovation, marine, ocean, surge, US, wave, WEC

Industrial Policy: China’s always had it, the U.S. has rediscovered it, the EU now needs it too

October 10, 2022 by William Todts

China’s performance – both in and outside the energy sector – has always been driven by wide-reaching industrial policy. In the last few decades it has consistently delivered results. Meanwhile, the U.S. has kept shifting up the gears of its pro-U.S. interventionist industrial policy since Donald Trump: though socially right wing, he was a protectionist president whose ambition was to boost domestic industries. Today, president Biden’s “Inflation … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Policies Tagged With: automotive, China, Energy, EU, EVs, funding, industry, investment, IRA, minerals, policy, transport, US

New U.S. study: damage per ton of CO2 costs $185, not the official $51

October 7, 2022 by Maximilian Auffhammer

Maximilian Auffhammer at the Energy Institute at Haas reviews a new paper that suggests CO2 causes over three times as much damage in dollar terms as the figure currently used by the US government, $51 per ton. The new study shows $185 per ton of CO2 as the Social Cost of Carbon (SCC). The updated model is superior to previous models, says Auffhammer. It’s also open source, so anyone can use it, criticise it, and tweak the numbers to get … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Policies Tagged With: agriculture, CO2, damage, emissions, Energy, modelling, mortality, SCC, SeaLevel, US

IEA: The Energy Sector is failing Women in employment, pay, career progression and gender equality

September 22, 2022 by IEA

A comprehensive report by the IEA is warning that gender wage gaps are greater in the energy sector than in the non-energy sector. Furthermore, the energy sector has a relatively low percentage of female workers compared to other parts of the corporate sector. There is also a lack of career mobility and advancement for women compared to other sectors, which will affect both their attraction and retention. As a consequence, there will be fewer … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Policies Tagged With: Energy, equality, gender, jobs, pay, women

Buildings Renovation: city-wide comprehensive data management tools to transform each building

September 21, 2022 by Molly Rettig

In the U.S. the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have created a free-to-use (and develop) online data management tool – called SEED - that allows whole cities to collect details on thousands of buildings and use them to assess energy wastage at the single building level. Molly Rettig at NREL explains that hundreds of data points can be collected for each building. The tools, along with … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Buildings, Energy Tagged With: buildings, Cities, data, Energy, renovation, retrofit, SanFrancisco, US, Washington

How could Germany wind down Russian oil imports by the end of 2022

April 25, 2022 by Kerstine Appunn

Berlin has said that, though difficult, it could become independent of Russian oil imports by the end of 2022, with a target of halving them by the middle of the year. Kerstine Appunn at Clean Energy Wire compiles information on the practical challenges for Germany’s oil infrastructure, refineries and security of supply. Germany is serviced by three pipeline systems for the west, the east and the south of the country. But they are not connected … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Oil, Gas & Coal Tagged With: crude, diesel, Energy, Germany, imports, infrastructure, logistics, oil, pipelines, prices, refineries, rosneft, Russia, security, storage, transport, Ukraine

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