Recently added articles from Europe Energy:
EU ENERGY AGENDA.
Jun 24, 2009 ... Council of Ministers 7 December 2009, Energy Council, Brussels The Swedish Presidency aims to reach political agreement on three main co-decision proposals, namely, the proposed Directive on the energy performance of buildings (2008/0223(COD), the proposed Directive ...
AVIATION: THE ANSWERS TO CLIMATE CHANGE.
Jun 24, 2009 ... The bad news is that international experts have just pushed the estimated likely impact of aviation on climate change upwards. Although the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) had until now kept to a guarded 3%, the figures it published last month raise the ...
INTERVIEW WITH PAUL KUENTZMANN (ONERA) : "30% BIOFUELS IN AIRCRAFT BY AROUND 2020".
Jun 24, 2009 ... Paul Kuentzmann is Senior Scientific Adviser at Onera, the French aeronautics and space research centre. From 1996 to 2005, he was scientific director for fluids and energetics. As a specialist in aviation fuels, he comments here on research into alternative fuels. Do synthetic ...
ACQUISITION OF LBI.
Jun 24, 2009 ... The European Commission granted clearance, on 15 June, to the acquisition of sole control of Lyondell Basell Industries AF S.C.A (LBI Luxembourg) by Access industries group (US) and ProChemie Holding Limited (PCH-Jersey). Access is active in oil, petrochemicals, coal, ...
AID TO GERMAN COAL SECTOR AUTHORISED.
Jun 24, 2009 ... The European Commission authorised, on 17 June, a state aid scheme covering exceptional costs due to restructuring measures and mine shutdowns and granting current production aid for German coal mining companies in 2009. The Commission checked whether the measures notified for 2009 were in ...
AMENDMENT OF KYOTO PROTOCOL.
Jun 24, 2009 ... The EU Council of Ministers adopted, on 8 June, without a debate, conclusions ratifying the proposal to amend the Kyoto Protocol on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The Council clarified that the new international agreement on climate change, which should be concluded in December 2009 in ...
AREVA MERGER.
Jun 24, 2009 ... The European Commission granted clearance, on 15 June, to the acquisition of sole control of AREVA NP by AREVA SA (France). AREVA SA produces and sells power generation, electricity transmission and ...
THREE QUESTIONS TO JOS DINGS : "A VERY MODEST START TO AN ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY".
Jun 24, 2009 ... Jos Dings is the Director of T&E, the European Federation for Transport and Environment, the main environmental organisation focusing on the transport sector. T&E sees the application of the emissions trading scheme to aviation as a "failed opportunity". T&E describes the ...
CLEAN SKY CALL FOR PROPOSALS.
Jun 24, 2009 ... The first call for proposals for the Clean Sky joint technology initiative - an extensive aeronautical research programme to develop less polluting aircraft - was issued on 16 June. The call has an EU budget of 25 million that will co-finance research projects on engines, wings, regional ...
"CLEAN SKY" WILL SPEED UP RESEARCH FOR CLEAN PLANES.
Jun 24, 2009 ... The share of the budget devoted to aeronautics in the EU's 7th framework programme for research and technological development (FP7 2007-2013) is 2.2 billion euros. More than a third of this - 800 million euros - will be spent on a high-profile programme called Clean Sky'. The name speaks ...
CARBON CAPTURE AND STORAGE : COMMISSION ALLOCATES 60 MN EURO TO CCS IN CHINA.
Jun 24, 2009 ... The European Commission, on 25 June, announced a series of non-legislative measures aimed at supporting carbon capture and storage (CCS) in China. In a communication, the EU executive proposes working with the European Investment Bank and other international financial institutions in order ...
ENERGY : COMMISSION CLAIMS POWERS OVER SECURITY OF GAS SUPPLY.
Jun 24, 2009 ... According to drafts seen by Europolitics Energy, the European Commission is set to propose for itself wide-ranging powers in a new regulation on security of gas supply. The new regulation, repealing the existing directive, is scheduled for adoption by the Commission, on 14 July(1). The ...
ENERGY : COMMISSION LAUNCHES CONSULTATION ON ENERGY EFFICIENCY.
Jun 24, 2009 ... The European Commission has launched its public consultation on a revised action plan for energy efficiency. The consultation is open till 3 August. The Commission should, later in 2009 or in 2010, propose a revision of the October 2006 action plan that outlined legislation, policies and ...
MERGERS : COMMISSION LEVIES 20 MN EURO FINE ON ELECTRABEL.
Jun 24, 2009 ... Belgian electricity producer and retailer Electrabel (belonging to GDF Suez) was fined 20 million, on 10 June, for acquiring control of Compagnie Nationale du Rhone (CNR), another electricity producer, without having received prior approval under the EU Merger Regulation. 'The problem is ...
COMMISSION PORTAL FOR ENERGY EFFICIENCY IN BUILDINGS.
Jun 24, 2009 ... The European Commission launched, on 16 June, its BUILD UP website billed as a tool for sharing information on reducing energy use of buildings. Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs promises that BUILD UP will help both home owners and builders with practical information, but also update ...
TAXATION/DENMARK : CONDITIONAL GO-AHEAD FOR CO2 TAX REDUCTIONS.
Jun 24, 2009 ... The European Commission authorised, on 17 June, a reduction on the CO2 emissions tax for companies covered by the EU's Emission Trading Scheme (ETS), subject to conditions. The measure proposed by the Danish government must be amended so that all concerned companies pay an energy tax ...
CLIMATE CHANGE : DANISH PM: EUROPE MUST NOT GIVE UP LEAD ROLE.
Jun 24, 2009 ... The European Union must keep its lead in the fight against climate change. Its commitment to do so was reconfirmed by the heads of state and government at the EU summit in Brussels, on 18 and 19 June, declared Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen. As prime minister of the country ...
EU/UN/CLIMATE : DESPITE SOME PROGRESS, NEGOTIATIONS ARE STALLING.
Jun 24, 2009 ... The second round of negotiations on a future international agreement on climate change, which ended on 12 June in Bonn, resulted in some progress being made. However, this remains far below expectations for an agreement to be achieved during the United Nations Climate Change Conference in ...
EBRD LOAN FOR HUNGARIAN GAS STORAGE FACILITY.
Jun 24, 2009 ... The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) will provide a 200 million loan to MOL, Hungary's largest energy company. The loan is to finance completion of the conversion of the Sz reg 1 reservoir into an underground storage facility. The EBRD stressed that the loan will ...
EIB LOAN FOR ENERGY EFFICIENCY.
Jun 24, 2009 ... The European Investment Bank lent 250 million to Fortum Corporation (Espoo, Finland) on 15 June for energy efficiency investments in three countries. The first initiative concerns the construction of a major natural gas-fired combined-cycle gas turbine plant in Espoo, Finland, to replace ...