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Insight EU Energy Monitoring 2 February 2022

Feb 3, 2022 ,
ENERGY TAXONOMY
  • EU Taxonomy: EU Commission complements Climate Delegated Act for gas and nuclear energy
  • EU Commission Q&A on the EU Taxonomy Complementary Climate Delegated Act covering certain nuclear and gas activities
  • Remarks by EU Commissioner McGuinness at the press conference on the EU Taxonomy Complementary Climate Delegated Act
EU TAXONOMY – MEMBER STATES
  • Habeck und Lemke lehnen Taxonomie-Rechtsakt der EU-Kommission ab
EU TAXONOMY – MEPS
  • EVP/CSU zur EU-Taxonomie: Planwirtschaftlicher Ansatz gescheitert
  • Greens/EFA on EU Taxonomy: EU Commission proposal to label gas & nuclear as sustainable tantamount to greenwashing
  • ECR: Gas and nuclear energy are part of the solution
  • The Left: Climate & democracy ditched by Commission “taxonomy” proposal
EU TAXONOMY – STAKEHOLDERS
  • BEUC: EU plans to greenwash nuclear and fossil gas will prevent consumers from investing sustainably
  • BDI: Gasbasierte Technologie in der Taxonomie als förderfähig anerkennen
  • Der VCI bewertet die Änderungen im finalen Vorschlag der EU-Kommission für die Kriterien zur Taxonomie.
  • VKU-Hauptgeschäftsführer Ingbert Liebing zum heute veröffentlichten Vorschlag der EU-Kommission für einen ergänzenden delegierten Rechtsakt zur EU-Taxonomie
  • BDEW zu Kernenergie in der EU-Taxonomie: Wir brauchen wasserstofffähige Gaskraftwerke zur Flankierung eines erfolgreichen Kohleausstiegs
  • Germanwatch: EU-Taxonomie droht viel Glaubwürdigkeit zu verlieren – Europaparlament ist nun gefordert
  • BUND zum Taxonomie-Beschluss: EU-Kommission kapituliert vor Atom- und Erdgas-Lobby – Bundesregierung muss Klage vorbereiten
  • Europe Calling “Taxonomie – und jetzt?”
ENERGY PRICES
  • Energy prices: MEPs debate with Kadri Simson
  • Speech by EU Energy Commissioner Simson at the ITRE Committee meeting on energy prices
  • S&Ds: Reducing energy dependency and volatility of prices is paramount before the end of the winter
GAS MARKETS
  • EU-Abgeordnete Cornelia Ernst (DIE LINKE): Schneller Ausstieg aus Gas notwendig
GAZPROM
  • EU Judgment in Case T-616/18 Polskie Górnictwo Naftowe i Gazownictwo v Commission (Gazprom)
  • EU Judgment in Case T-399/19 Polskie Górnictwo Naftowe i Gazownictwo v Commission (Complaint against Gazprom)
BIOMETHANE
  • TotalEnergies and Veolia Join Forces to Accelerate the Development of Biomethane
OPEC
  • DoC technical body meets to examine oil market conditions
HYDROGEN
  • Latest publications on hydrogen
    • Berlin-Brandenburg hydrogen train project moves forward
    • Perspective on the hydrogen economy as a pathway to reach net-zero CO2 emissions in Europe
    • BP and HyCC to develop green hydrogen project in Netherlands
    • Consortium plans 500-megawatt green hydrogen project in Spain
    • Project partners commit to GW-scale green hydrogen project in Spain
    • Australia a global first with dual-fuel hydrogen power plant
    • One State’s Passionate Debate About Developing A Hydrogen Fuel Industry.
    • Properties of Bromine Fused Salts based on Quaternary Ammonium Molecules and their Relevance for Use in a Hydrogen Bromine Redox Flow Battery
    • Wheat Pete’s Word, Feb 2: Nitrogen and hydrogen, filling in wheat gaps, and changing minds
    • Constellation’s CEO Sees Hydrogen as Key in Push to Cut Carbon
    • Hydrogen Rising: Season 2 of Hydrogen Rising Is Here! [PODCAST]
    • ‘Half the cost of green H2’ | Landmark 1GW waste-to-hydrogen project in Egypt ‘very likely to go ahead’
    • GenCell and Aicox Soluciones Advance their Partnership to Adapt GenCell’s Hydrogen Power sSolutions for its Telecom Customers Across the Iberian and Latin American Market
    • Hole utilization in solar hydrogen production
    • Machine Learning Assisted High-Throughput Screening of Transition Metal Single Atoms Based Superb Hydrogen Evolution Electrocatalysts
    • ‘Hydrogen unikely to play major role in road transport, even for heavy trucks’: Fraunhofer
    • Controlling hydrogen release from remaining-intact Clathrate hydrates by electromagnetic fields: molecular engineering via microsecond non-equilibrium molecular dynamics
    • Reactivation of catalysts for methanol–to–hydrocarbons conversion with hydrogen
    • Highly Conductive NiSe2 Nanoparticle as a Co-catalyst Over TiO2 for Enhanced Photocatalytic Hydrogen Production
    • Synergistic effect on ammonia borane hydrolysis by Co catalysts with atomically dispersed CoNx active sites for hydrogen generation
    • Optimisation of the hydrogen bake-out treatment in steels via Gaussian processes
    • Dry and hydrated defective molybdenum Disulfide/Graphene bilayer heterojunction under strain for hydrogen evolution from water Splitting: A First-principle study
    • Hydrophilic oxygen radical absorbance capacity values of low-molecular-weight phenolic compounds containing carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen
    • Highly Regioselective and Ligand-Controlled Diastereodivergent Aminomethylative Annulation of Dienyl Alcohols Enabled by Hydrogen-Bonding Assisting Effect
    • Extreme E utilising hydrogen in extended partnership with AFC Energy
    • 2022 – green hydrogen tipping point predicted
    • Jacobs to conduct green hydrogen feasibility study for RWE
    • Molecules, Vol. 27, Pages 1005: Hydrogen Bonds with Fluorine in Ligand–Protein Complexes-the PDB Analysis and Energy Calculations
    • Ekona Power closes CAD 79M Series A to advance pulsed methane pyrolysis technology for clean hydrogen production
    • Selectively Growing a Highly Active Interface of Mixed Nb–Rh Oxide/2D Carbon for Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Production
    • Unilever to trial switch to hydrogen at UK facility
    • Hydrogen fuel cell, transportation firm to move HQ to Ohio
    • FFI takes a stake in Sparc Hydrogen
ENERGY CHARTER
  • The Japanese Delegation visits the Secretary General – Energy Charter
  • Secretary-General Lentz and Deputy Secretary-General Hirose meet with the Turkish Ambassador – Energy Charter
EU PARLIAMENT REGISTER
  • AMENDMENTS 70 – 814 – Draft opinion Deployment of alternative fuels infrastructure, and repealing Directive 2014/94/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council – PE704.660v01-00
EU COUNCIL REGISTER
  • ST 5910 2022 INIT Proposal for a COUNCIL DECISION on the position to be adopted, on behalf of the European Union, within the EEA Joint Committee, concerning the amendment to Annex IV (Energy) to the EEA Agreement (Directive on the Energy Performance of Buildings)
  • ST 5910 2022 ADD 1 ANNEX to the Proposal for a COUNCIL DECISION on the position to be adopted, on behalf of the European Union, within the EEA Joint Committee, concerning the amendment to Annex IV (Energy) to the EEA Agreement (Directive on the Energy Performance of Buildings)
EU COMMISSION REGISTER
  • Proposal for a COUNCIL DECISION on the position to be adopted, on behalf of the European Union, within the EEA Joint Committee, concerning the amendment to Annex IV (Energy) to the EEA Agreement (Directive on the Energy Performance of Buildings)

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