In a final vote, the European Parliament (EP) approved the plan to freeze the auctioning of EU Emission Allowances in an attempt to prop up ailing CO2 permit prices thereby encouraging low carbon investment. In July Parliament had amended the plan, setting stricter conditions.
Solar power plants commissioned as of 1 April 2012 with a capacity of 10 kV to 1 MW will only receive feed-in tariffs pursuant to the Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG) for 90% of the energy generated as of 1 January 2014 when a new market integration provision in the EEG for solar energy starts […]
Friday’s decision by the government of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) in favour of initiating proceedings to deviate from the state planning objectives brings E.ON another step closer to continuing construction on its 1100 MW coal-fired power plant in Datteln (Datteln 4).
The European Council has adopted a Regulation establishing the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF), the future funding instrument for the trans-European networks (TE) in the fields of transport, energy and telecommunications. It determines the conditions, methods and procedures for the Union’s financial contribution to TEN projects, replacing the former legal basis.
Applying the EU Merger Regulation, the European Commission has cleared a proposed acquisition of (i) joint control over WINZ and Wintershall Services of the Netherlands and (ii) sole control over Wingas and WIEH of Germany by the Russian energy company Gazprom, saying it had no competition concerns. The acquisitions by Gazprom are part of an asset swap between BASF SE and Gazprom aimed at expanding […]
According to recent press reports, EU Competition Commissioner Joaquín Alumia has announced that the European Commission will open an in-depth investigation of Germany’s Renewable Energy Act (Erneuerbare-Energien-Gesetz, “EEG”) before Christmas. The EEG promotes renewable energy sources by stipulating fixed feed-in tariffs. In order to ensure that in particular industrial customers with a high level of energy costs and […]
The ”Annual Report on the Results of Monitoring the Internal Electricity and Natural Gas Markets in 2012″ was jointly presented last week by the Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) and the Council of European Energy Regulators (CEER). It notes that progress has been made towards the implementation of the Third Energy Legislative Package and the completion […]
225.957 MWp of new PV capacity were installed in October 2013, the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) informed. Total German PV capacity eligible for feed-in tariffs amounted to 35,308 MWp at the end of the month, according to the agency, with 2,914.615 MWp added so far this year. If new capacity for the remaining two months stays on this level, […]
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The European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity (ENTSO-E) presented its Winter Outlook 2013/14 and Summer Review 2013 on national and regional power balances. The detailed country by country assessments also describe the potentially most critical periods and situations in the upcoming winter season in Germany.
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