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Poles urge EU to stick with gas as a transition fuel in district heating
Poland’s largest electricity company, PGE, has asked EU regulators for more time to replace coal with gas in district heating systems, saying gas in Poland is now mostly supplied by countries other than Russia.
read more... 23/03/2022
Berlin to spend EUR 203bn to speed up energy transition
Berlin aims to fund the German energy transition and climate protection measures with EUR 203bn by 2026, an increase of EUR 86bn, to reduce its dependency on Russian energy supplies, Germany’s economy ministry said late on Wednesday.
read more... 18/03/2022
Portugal to auction 3-4 GW of floating offshore wind farms in summer
Portugal plans to hold its first auction for floating offshore farms this summer, which it hopes will be able to produce between 3 and 4 gigawatts (GW) of power in 2026, Environment and Energy Transition minister Joao Matos Fernandes told Reuters.
read more... 17/03/2022
Hydrogen production in Germany ‘at the ready’ and about to boom
The German economy and climate protection minister, Robert Habeck, has said hydrogen would soon establish itself as a key component of the energy transition, according to a report carried by Der Spiegel.
read more... 17/02/2022
EU in balancing act over carbon border levy
The European Commission’s proposed Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism is meant to replace free allowances distributed to industry under the existing EU ETS, but European steelmakers worry the transition will be a mess and leave them without protection from foreign competitors.
read more... 15/02/2022