BATTERIES FOR A CARBON-NEUTRAL EUROPE: TIME TO CHANGE THE FRAMEWORK

By EdEn in Europe

A competitive, clean and sustainable European battery sector is essential to deliver the EU energy and climate goals while also securing European independence in energy supply and industry competitiveness. Batteries are crucial for the promotion of low-emission and zero-emission mobility technologies, in particular electric vehicles, and for the management of the electricity grid that is becoming more decentralised and more renewable. Building a competitive and sustainable European…

US city Berkeley prohibits gas infrastructure in new buildings: when there is a will, there is a way

By EdEn in Building

The United-States in the Trump era have considerably weakened their international commitments in regards to climate action but municipalities are increasingly taking over as the main environmental actors in the US. In Berkeley, California, the Councilwoman…

Who will be the face of the next EU Commission?

By Cécil in Energies

As the Juncker Commission’s term is soon coming to an end, the race to become the new President of the European Commission is open and intense. As the headlines, there are two candidates: Manfred Weber of the EPP (the European center-right group, majority in…

Mixed reviews on the outcome of the 2006 Battery Directive

By Cécil in Energies

Thirteen years after the 2006 Battery Directive was adopted, the Commission has evaluated its implementation and identified the successes and shortcomings of the directive. This evaluation and the Commission’s Communication published on 9 April form the basis…

The European Union at the forefront of the energy transition

By Cécil in Energies

Speaking on the occasion of the publication by the European Commission of the Fourth Report on the State of the Energy Union, Commissioner Miguel Arias Cañete declared that the Energy Union is now finally “completed”. The Energy Union is the EU strategy aiming at…

2050 Strategy : The Road towards decarbonisation is being mapped now

By Cécil in Energies

With the completion of the Clean energy for all Europeans Package (see our article here) the EU is at the forefront of the energy transition and is considered to have built “the world’smost ambitious and advanced climate and energy framework”. But there is…