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Insight EU Energy Monitoring 15 February 2023

Feb 17, 2023 ,
Eurelectric issues guide on impact of grids and renewables on biodiversity. Source: EU Commission
ENERGY STATE AID
  • EU Commission approves €259 million Romanian scheme under Recovery and Resilience Facility to support investments in batteries, photovoltaic cells and panels
REPOWEREU
  • Speech by Vice-President Šefčovič at the Center for Strategic and International Studies
HYDROGEN
  • EU Commission approves €170 million Danish scheme to support renewable hydrogen production
  • Latest hydrogen headlines
  • Hydrogen-fuelled research vessel to be built to ABS class
  • Topsoe to Deliver SynCOR Tech to Exxon Hydrogen Facility
  • Naturgy to operate PV co-located 280MW hydrogen plant in Spain
  • Tevva: Range testing of our 7.5t hydrogen electric truck takes us 350 miles on a single charge
  • Written question – IPCEI (Hy2Use) – Trials of heavy vehicles powered by hydrogen extracted from waste in Rome and southern Italy – E-000339/2023
  • BESIX Powers its Largest Tower Crane with Green Hydrogen
  • Direct Seawater-to-Hydrogen Production Without Desalination
  • First Hydrogen releases more teasers for its Gen II zero emission LCV
  • Aberdeen’s James Hutton Institute Hosts Green Hydrogen Tech Start-Up sHYp
  • ABS to class UC San Diego’s hydrogen-powered research ship
  • Development of UK hydrogen supply chain hinges on major policy changes says Energy Industries Council
  • Tevva hydrogen-electric truck clocks up 350 miles in wintry range test
  • GPS Renewables appoints Santanu Roy as Principal Advisor to its Green Hydrogen Vertical
  • SGN picks Altrad Babcock to build green hydrogen facilities
  • HCH2 and H2Hub merge for DOE hydrogen hub application
RENEWABLES
  • The European Commission decides to refer CROATIA, HUNGARY and PORTUGAL to the Court of Justice of the European Union for failing to enact EU rules promoting more renewable energy in Europe
  • Renewable energy: Commission urges LATVIA and POLAND to fully transpose the Renewable Energy Directive
ENERGY EFFICIENCY
  • Energy labels: Commission calls on the NETHERLANDS to comply with the EU Tyre Labelling Regulation
  • Energy efficiency: Commission urges HUNGARY to complete the transposition of the Energy Efficiency Directive
  • Energy performance of buildings: Commission urges the NETHERLANDS to fully transpose the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive
WIND ENERGY
  • Nature protection: EU Commission calls on GREECE to comply with EU law when planning wind farm projects
  • InvestEU: EIB lends €50 million to Asja Ambiente Italia to build wind and photovoltaic power plants in Basilicata, Campania, Sardinia and Sicily
OFFSHORE ENERGY
  • Offshore energy: Commission calls on CYPRUS to correctly transpose EU rules on the safety of offshore oil and gas operations
ENERGY REGULATION
  • EU Court confirms enhanced powers of EU energy regulator ACER in cross-border cases
  • Director Lorkowski holds talks with Montenegrin energy sector leadership
GERMANY
  • DIW: Bitte nicht schon wieder ein deutscher Alleingang – Wir brauchen eine europäische Reaktion auf den Inflation Reduction Act
  • BMWK: Bundeskabinett verabschiedet die Verordnung zur Änderung der Gassicherungsverordnung
  • Konsultation des Einspeiserabattes aus LNG-Anlagen für das Jahr 2024 – Bundesnetzagentur
  • 20/5647: Unterrichtung Bericht nach § 35f des Energiewirtschaftsgesetzes über die Umsetzung der Vorschriften des Teils 3a des Energiewirtschaftsgesetzes (PDF)
EU COUNCIL REGISTER
  • ST 6286 2023 INIT Proposal for a REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL amending Regulation (EU) 2021/241 as regards REPowerEU chapters in recovery and resilience plans and amending Regulation (EU) 2021/1060 , Regulation (EU) 2021/2115, Directive 2003/87/EC and Decision (EU) 2015/1814 – Outcome of the European Parliament’s first reading (Strasbourg, 13-16 February 2023)
EU COMMISSION REGISTER
  • COMMISSION OPINION relating to the plan for the disposal of radioactive waste arising from the dismantling of reactor working areas R1 and R2 of Unit 2 of the Ignalina nuclear power plant located in Lithuania (only the Lithuanian text is authentic)

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