Post Tagged with: "clean energy"
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Biogas: a high-potential, sustainable, yet untapped fuel in Romania
Portrayed as a key element to Romania´s sustainable energy future, biomass should be the object of intense debate in connection with the future national energy strategy. Solid (wood, charcoal) and […]
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Small-scale LNG – an opportunity for romanian transportation
Compared to oil products, natural gas is clean burning, with virtually no particle and sulphur emissions, close to no NOx emissions, and lower CO2 emissions. Increasingly, it is also more […]
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Romanian natural gas: the view to 2030, june 22, 2017
Please see the Program above
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Natural gas in the romanian energy mix: strategic importance and circumstantial barriers
Natural gas is the most important form of energy in Romania’s the final consumption structure. In 2015, gas accounted for 29% of the total demand, followed by oil products with […]
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The threats that cloud Romania’s upstream promise
The Black Sea has long been developing into a strategic geopolitical “landscape” which is key for the entire European continent and the Caucasian region. The clash between two powers like […]
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History of unitization-based cooperation in the development of offshore cross-border deposits. Part I
This paper traces the history of how states came to cooperate in the development of offshore cross-border oil or gas deposits. First, it explains the shift in how a state´s […]
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The clean energy transition and the geopolitics of technology metals
Hardly anything has been more emboldening in the ongoing “clean energy transition” than the solid learning curves of batteries and main renewable energy technologies over the past decade or so, […]
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South Stream is dead. Long live South Stream
South Stream is not dead – rather it has morphed into a new project which is part of a complex commercial power play on the part of Russia and Turkey, […]
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A stairway to (low carbon) heaven
There´s a lady who´s sure all that glitters is gold And she´s buying a stairway to heaven. When she gets there she knows, if the stores are all closed With […]
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US Climate Change Policy in light of the EPA draft regulation on fossil fuel power plants
In many ways, the draft regulation proposed by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on June 2, 2014 is an historic feat. The scope of this article is to […]
"The #UK says it wants to keep or even expand its close ties with the #EuropeanUnion #energy market after #Brexit, but it might not get what it wants if the country leaves the #EU with no deal in 2019. #Gas and #electricity will continue to be traded between the two, but the risks of shortages and higher costs for the UK and Ireland will grow and increase over time, explains Sara Stefanini of Climate Home News."
Brexit: What it means for UK-EU energy trade - EnergyPost.eu
energypost.eu
The UK wants to keep close ties with the EU energy market, but future UK-EU energy trade is reliant on whether it walks away with a hard or soft Brexit."#Poland has some of the worst air quality in the EU. But fighting #smog is expensive. The Modernisation Fund set up as part of the Emissions Trading Scheme (#ETS) could help here, writes Joanna Maćkowiak-Pandera.
The Modernisation Fund was established in October 2014. It is supposed to operate between 2020 and 2030 and its goal is to support the objective of reducing EU-wide emissions by 40% (on 1990 levels) by 2030. Funds will be available to member states with an average GDP per capita of under 60% of the EU average. That means it is a kind of solidarity fund."
An EU anti-smog fund for Poland
euractiv.com
Poland has some of the worst air quality in the EU. But fighting smog is expensive. The Modernisation Fund set up as part of the Emissions Trading Scheme could help here, writes Joanna Maćkowiak-Pand...