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Insight EU Energy Monitoring 11 October 2022

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SOLAR ENERGY
  • EU Commission kicks off work on a European Solar Photovoltaic Industry Alliance
  • CAN Europe: EU Energy ministers should make solar mandatory on Europe’s buildings – a winning solution
WIND ENERGY
  • GWEC: An open letter from the global wind energy industry to G20 and world leaders: Renewable energy can steer us out of the current crisis
ENERGY EFFICIENCY
  • EU Commission: Energy efficiency – a driver for lower energy bills
ENERGY SECURITY
  • Speech by Vice-President Šefčovič at the Energy Storage Global Conference 2022
  • State aid: Commission approves €150 million Finnish strategic reserve to support security of electricity supply
LNG
  • EU Commission clears acquisition of joint control of GNLG by KfW and Nederlandse Gasunie
  • The limits of using US LNG to save the EU: not enough infrastructures and a tricky global LNG price – Florence School of Regulation
ENERGY REGULATION
  • ACER finds that EU electricity congestion income is mainly used to maintain and improve cross-zonal capacities or is saved for future use
  • ENTSO-E Vision: A Power System for a carbon-neutral Europe
  • Energy Community adopts Gas Storage Regulation to strengthen security of supply
  • 14th Citizens’ Energy Forum
ENERGY DIPLOMACY
  • Partenariat stratégique entre la République algérienne démocratique et populaire et l’Union européenne dans le domaine de l’énergie
NUCLEAR ENERGY
  • IAEA’s Grossi Meets Russia’s Putin to Help Prevent Nuclear Accident in Ukraine, Calls for ZNPP Safety and Security Protection Zone
ENERGY CRISIS FUND
  • Bruegel: Does the EU need an energy crisis fund?
HYDROGEN
  • Project Development Assistance (PDA) – Deadline extended: apply until 21 October!
  • Register now to the European Hydrogen Week 2022
  • Latest Hydrogen headlines
    • SGP BioEnergy adds green hydrogen production to to Panama biorefinery project
    • Hamburg’s 3 new plug-in hybrid ferries will be hydrogen fuel cell ready
    • Spain’s Cepsa Signs Green Hydrogen Shipping Deal with Rotterdam Port
    • Dolphyn floating wind-powered ‘hydrogen from seawater’ pilot leaps ahead with key deal
    • Hydrogen Fuel Cell Technology: The Future Of Sustainable Aviation
    • EnerVenue offers 20-year/20-cycle warranty for its nickel-hydrogen batteries
    • Metal-hydrogen energy storage startup Enervenue offers 20-year, 20,000 cycle warranty
    • ‘High impact’ EDF and TotalEnergies-backed hydrogen fund plans $2bn global spree
    • EnerVenue offers 20-year extended warranty for its nickel-hydrogen batteries
    • LOHC | Plan unveiled to ship green hydrogen from Sweden in liquid organic carrier — but no source for the H2 lined up
    • CMA CGM joins €2 billion hydrogen infrastructure fund
    • CMA CGM comes onboard €2bn clean hydrogen infrastructure fund
    • Blue Cap Mining taps LINE Hydrogen for carbon-neutral mining ambitions at Lord Byron gold project
    • Statkraft steps on UK hydrogen market to produce green fuel for trains
    • Cepsa plans ‘green hydrogen corridor’ between Spain and Rotterdam
    • Banks for including electric vehicles, green hydrogen in priority lending
    • Probat introduces hydrogen-powered roaster at Connecting Markets 2022
    • TES & Fortescue partner on mega H2 scheme
    • Gaussin and Lhyfe H2 mobility MoU
    • Hy24 closes €2bn clean H2 infra fund
GERMANY
  • Finanzierung des 200-Milliarden-Euro-Abwehrschirms gesichert – Bundesregierung
  • 20/3872: Gesetzentwurf Entwurf eines Gesetzes zur Änderung des Energiesteuer- und des Stromsteuergesetzes zur Verlängerung des sogenannten Spitzenausgleichs (PDF)
  • Energiepartnerschaften mit asia­tischen und afri­kanischen Staaten
  • Debatte zu den Ergebnissen der Gaspreis-Kommission
  • Situationsbericht Lage der Gasversorgung in Deutschland (Stand 11.10.22) – Bundesnetzagentur
EP ITRE COMMITTEE
  • ITRE 13/10: Secure connectivity programme, RepowerEU, Chips Act
EU COUNCIL REGISTER
  • ST 12425 2022 INIT Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION on an emergency intervention to address high energy prices
  • ST 13372 2022 INIT Proposal for a DIRECTIVE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL amending Directive (EU) 2018/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council, Regulation (EU) 2018/1999 of the European Parliament and of the Council and Directive 98/70/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the promotion of energy from renewable sources, and repealing Council Directive (EU) 2015/652 –
  • ST 13373 2022 INIT Proposal for a DIRECTIVE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL on energy efficiency (recast) – 4 column document
EU COMMISSION REGISTER
  • Agrément request to replace the Head of Mission of the People’s Republic of China to the European Union and to the European Atomic Energy Community

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