Post Tagged with: "energy strategy"
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An analysis of the evolution of electricity prices in January 2017
The accelerated growth of electricity prices on the OPCOM electricity exchange in January 2017 continues to be a controversy fueled by emotions, manipulation and incomplete understanding. Without a doubt, there […]
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Reflections on the new Romanian Energy Strategy
The Energy Ministry posted on December 19 the Energy Strategy of Romania 2016-2030, with an Outlook to 2050. It has been a long-awaited document, on which stakeholders have for years pinned […]
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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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Hurdles in the path of romanian gas market liberalization
The Romanian Government presented the Parliament in September 2014 with a Decision to postpone gas market liberalization for households by two and a half years, until 1 July 2021. The […]
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Romania’s energy strategy options: current trends in Eastern Europe’s natural gas markets
Even if its most important foreign energy policy project, the Nabucco gas pipeline, collapsed in June 2013, Romania keeps significant options to improve its energy security on the medium term. Romania […]
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No shale gas, after all. Implications of Chevron’s exit from Romania
American Energy Company Chevron announced, February 20, its decision to renounce shale gas exploration in Romania, in what was deemed by company representatives “a business decision” that follows evaluations of […]
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Fit for fifty and perhaps for more…
Nowadays, the politicians and the mass media are passionately devouring, probably absent a strategic purpose, the amendments to the Fiscal Code. One can see yet again that 25 years later […]
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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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EPG participates in SEERMAP, a regional scenario building project
EPG, together with two representatives from the Ministry of Energy, represent Romania in a multinational project (SEERmap) which aims to analyse alternative pathways by which the countries of South-East Europe […]
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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 […]
"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
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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...