Étiqueté : European Union
Regional dimensions to Europe’s energy integration
The European Commission initially encouraged regional groupings as the bottom-up building blocks of energy market integration, at a time when, in the mid-2000s, no further EU-wide energy legislation seemed possible. But, once the Third Package was passed in 2009, the Commission decided to rush the market integration process by means of top-down centralised harmonisation. This paper argues it is neither feasible nor desirable to try to leap-frog the regional phase of energy market integration…
Greenhouse Gas Market 2013
The IETA report captures the growing number of government actions to address climate change through market approaches, from the EU to California, China, South Korea, Kazakhstan, South Africa and elsewhere.
The end of EU climate leadership
A number of influential industry lobby organizations in EU countries such as Germany are arguing that the EU should not continue its path as a leader on climate policy as other big emitter countries have not followed its lead. These lobbyists argue that further EU decar-bonisation action would endanger the global competitiveness of entire industry sectors. Many Germany and EU based energy-intensive industries are facing structural problems, worsened by the present economic crisis…
Sustainable climate policy integration in the European Union
This article discusses under which conditions legislation that integrates climate objectives contributes to sustainable development and how this can be evaluated at the policy proposal stage…
Energy efficiency policies in the EU
“This ADEME publication presents and analyses the policies implemented in the buildings, transport and industry sector in the European Union, its Member States and Croatia and Norway…”
Energy efficiency trends in the EU
“The aim of this brochure is to provide an overview of past developments on energy use and energy efficiency trends in each end-use sector in the EU (industry, transport and buildings), as well as at the overall level…”
Electricity without borders: a plan to make the internal market work
The most straightforward European single energy market design would entail a European system operator regulated by a single European regulator. This would ensure the predictable development of rules for the entire EU, significantly reducing regulatory uncertainty for electricity sector investments. But such a first-best market design is unlikely to be politically realistic in the European context for three reasons…
Cooperation mechanisms of the EU renewable energy directive and flexible mechanisms of the Kyoto Protocol
This working paper discusses similarities and differences between the cooperation mechanisms of the EU renewable energy directive (RES directive) and the flexible mechanisms of the Kyoto Protocol. The cooperation mechanisms allow the (virtual) trade of renewable energy and were introduced with the RES directive to provide Member States with greater flexibility to achieve their national targets for renewable energy sources…
Revisiting Jansen et al.’s Modified Cournot Model of the European Union Natural Gas Market
In this paper we reconsider Jansen e tal.’s (2012) Cournot model of the Euro- pean Union natural gas market with three major suppliers : Russian Gazprom, Norwegian Statoil, and Algerian Sonatrach…
Why Europe’s energy and climate policies are coming apart
The European Union’s integrated energy and climate policy is coming apart. This is due to the effects of recession, and the impact of national renewable energy and back-up generation schemes, on the EU blueprint for a single energy market..
Reducing air pollution from electricity-generating large combustion plants in the European Union
This EEA report presents an assessment of the hypothetical emission reduction potential of NOx, SO2 and dust from more than 1 500 of Europes large combustion plants that operated in 2009
Living with intermittent renewable power – Challenges for Spain and the EU
Spain is living with a high penetration of intermittent renewable power from wind and solar PV. Other EU electricity markets will soon have to do the same, if they are not already doing so. This Comment summarizes a number of the challenges facing Spain as a result of this form of de-carbonization, and also considers the implications for the EU
The role of the EU in promoting international standards in the area of climate change
The aim of this paper is to assess whether and to what extent the European Union can be considered a world leader in stimulating the development of international climate change standards through a variety of international organizations and processes as a way of spurring necessary international cooperation