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Merkel's energy transition policy is turning Germans into thieves
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Angela Merkel's energy transition policy, with spiraling electricity and gas prices, is turning Germans into thieves:With energy costs escalating, more Germans are turning to wood burning stoves for heat. That, though, has also led to a rise in tree...
Coal Losing Ground To Cheap Gas
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With the November’s election around the corner, everything in Washington and beyond is viewed from the highly polarized and politicized perspective with both parties trying to milk the issues for all they can. The recent demise of coal is no except...
La lutte contre la précarité énergétique dans l’UE
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Les personnes en situation de précarité énergétique sont confrontées à des difficultés pour satisfaire leurs besoins élémentaires en énergie domestique, du fait de revenus insuffisants, de prix élevés de l’énergie et de logements d...
Greek Cyprus ignores Turkey’s gas resistance
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Greek Cyprus says it will continue natural gas talks with large companies despite Turkey’s strong opposition, blaming it with ‘showing its true face’ READ MORE...
EU-Russia/CIS relations: Bridging the gap in cross-border electricity trade
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Although different in terms of electricity market design, the EU and Russia are both moving towards the establishment of more open and competitive electricity markets. Nevertheless, more needs to be done to improve cross-border trade. This finding is...
Russia's Geopolitical Gazprom Blunder
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In the guise of a strictly legal procedure, the Gazprom case has brought into focus a geopolitical issue of the highest importance for Europe and Russia.
Time to uncork the champagne: Orders for offshore wind turbines have come to a halt in the UK
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Time to uncork the champagne!: The Financial Times reports that orders for offshore wind turbines have come to an abrupt halt in the UK. This is seen as the first clear sign of a (most welcome) slowdown in renewable energy investment. ...
Despite Threats, Macedonian Activists Fight for Fair Energy Law
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Members of the grassroots civil initiative AMAN, who are demanding fair energy legislation and an end to state-controlled price hikes in Macedonia, are facing various forms of pressure, including increasing threats. On Saturday, the police averted a...
US Elections: what no candidate says about energy and the economy
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See on Scoop.it – The Great Transition “What if tools of the past no longer fit the economy of the future? Economic growth, as we have known it, is being constrained by an unprecedented slowing of growth in world oil supply. America’...
Rosneft’s Igor Sechin Q&A Transcript With WSJ
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The Wall Street Journal interviewed Rosneft President Igor Sechin twice in late October. Following are edited excerpts of the conversations.
Energy security and NATO: a view from Washington
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By Dan Milstein What you see depends on where you are standing…and the view of energy security from here on...
Die Vorteile von Hybridautos – ein Überblick
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Vor allem für Stadtbewohner hat ein Hybridauto eine ganze Reihe von Vorteilen gegenüber Fahrzeugen mit reinem Benzin- oder Dieselantrieb. Durch den zusätzlichen Elektromotor sind sie nicht nur besonders umweltfreundlich in Bezug auf die Abgaswerte...
How can John Hayes have a future in the energy department? | Caroline Lucas
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Cameron must confirm his support for renewables and do something about a minister who peddles anti-wind propagandaThe battle raging at the heart of the UK's energy and climate policy has taken another dramatic turn. The new Conservative energy minist...
Czech President Klaus on renewable energy, Europe and the welfare state
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Klaus on the "profits" from renewable energy: This profit is not an outcome of those energy sources, but an outcome of government subsidies that are paid by taxpayers through high taxes and by consumers through high prices of energy, food and ot...
EU Renewable Energy needs a Boost
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One would have thought that with its decade-long emphasis on clean energy, illustrated by the EU 2020 objective of generating 20 percent of its energy and 30 per cent of its electricity from renewable sources, the EU would also have a competitive ren...
The reality of Merkel's failed energy transition is beginning to dawn on German consumers and industry
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Merkel will not be re-elected unless she begins to reverse her failed energy transition policy.The reality of Angela Merkel's failed energy transition policy is beginning to dawn on German consumers and small and medium-sized companies:Ma...
BLUE ENERGY: THE TIDE IS TURNING
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Number of View: 151The power of waves Until today, despite the considerable investment, very little electricity has been generated using ocean power anywhere in the world. But the several hundreds international experts and world-leading companies in...
Giant Deal Raises Questions for Rosneft
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Russian state-controlled oil giant Rosneft’s $55 billion deal to buy TNK-BP and become the largest publicly traded oil producer has left analysts and investors scratching their heads. Where will the money come from?
Chevron Enters Lithuanian Oil and Gas Exploration
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U.S. energy group Chevron Corp. said Thursday it has entered Lithuania by acquiring a 50% stake in local company LL Investicijos.
Morning Briefing: Polish, Czech Oil Refiners Third-Quarter Earnings
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Earnings of Polish and Czech oil refiners, PKN Orlen SA and Unipetrol AS, as well as Czech politics are in focus Thursday.
Colorado is fast turning into a showpiece for a failed renewable energy policy
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Colorado, the previously proud home of the "new energy economy", is fast becoming a showpiece for a failed renewable energy policy: The combined layoffs, plant closure and mothballed projects in Colorado represent the loss of more than 1,000 exi...
Gazprom Opens New Arctic Gas Field to Much Fanfare
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Russia’s largest gas producer OAO Gazprom went to great lengths Tuesday to make a launch event for a new arctic gas field as spectacular as possible, with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin speaking via a video link.
Combined Heating and Power plant privitisation – Ukraine
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This year, the combined heating and power plants (CHP’s) for Odessa, Kharkiv, Dnepropetrovsk and Kherson are all due to be privatised. None of which seems likely between now and the end of the year due to the tender process and the clauses with...
EU bioenergy policies increase carbon emissions
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Bioenergy made up over two thirds of the EU’s primary renewable energy production in 2009, according to Eurostat, and will account for more than half of EU states emissions reductions planned for 2020, according to their National Renewable Energy A...
EU biofuels more beneficial to big industry than environment
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In the EU, the biofuels industry serves to enrich the large industrial groups more than the environment, according to a recent study published by the International Journal of Environment and Health. Because of the emphasis placed on first-generation...
EU:n kasvu- ja työllisyyssopimuksen täytäntöönpano
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Kesäkuun 2012 Eurooppa-neuvosto hyväksyi kasvu- ja työllisyyssopimuksen (EUCO 76/12 päätelmien kohta 1 sekä liite sivulta 7). Lokakuun Eurooppa-neuvosto (EUCO 156/12) kehotti (itseään?) ohjelman ripeään ja päättäväiseen toimeenpanoon:...
Putin Embraces BP: More Wealth Against Democracy in Russia?
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The Russian state-owned company, Rosneft, reached separate agreements in October 2012 to buy TNK-BP from BP and a group of Russian billionaires. According to the Wall Street Journal, the deal represents “an acquisition that promises to reshape the...
Why Doesn't the United States Export More Oil?
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video By Christopher Swann America’s energy boom is...
Christopher Booker: Cameron's deluded wind energy policy driving millions into fuel poverty
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Christopher Booker at his best, in the Telegraph:What Mr Cameron clearly hasn’t realised is that the main reason why our energy companies need to charge us ever more for electricity lies in his own Government’s deluded policies. He and his collea...
In a Natural Gas Glut, Big Winners and Losers
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“Low prices for consumers. Big profits for bankers. But the gas glut in the United States has meant much pain for gas exploration companies and their investors.” (Source: NY Times) Brilliant article on America’s natural gas glut and the inf...
The U.S. should not waste money on ineffective wind energy - There is more than enough of shale gas
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The question Americans should now ask themselves: Why waste money and resources on inefficient, expensive, bird and bat killing, landscape destroying wind energy - when there is more than enough of cheap and clean shale gas available? (And solar powe...
Polish Shale Chatter: Oil Majors Dig In
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Two oil majors with shale gas concessions in Poland--ConocoPhillips and Chevron--are taking actions which industry watchers are interpreting as a commitment to the sector in the central European country, in sharp contrast to ExxonMobil, which has pul...
Oil and the dead cat bounce
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What crisis? Nymex and ICE oil price movement shows how oil prices can be moved anywhere as long as its up, except of course when its down, where fundamentals point with stubborn determination.Recent weeks, especially the last show that sometimes the...
Merkel's renewable energy policy driving up electricity bills by 50%
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Germany's switch to renewable energy is getting expensiveGerman consumers are beginning to feel the impact of chancellor Angela Merkel's failed energy transition policy:Germany's switch to renewable energies is driving up electricity bills across the...
Kicking the car industry out of the driving seat
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Imagine a band of brigands so depraved, it steals food from the poor and gives it to the better-off. Imagine that the band has been condemned by all kinds of "respectable" organisations but waits for several years before making any amends. The Euro...
The important role of DSOs in the future energy system
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Europe’s electricity distribution systems are set to change dramatically. The low-carbon energy transition and decarbonisation of European society, the integration of vast amounts of renewable energy sources into distribution grids, and new and cha...
In northern Poland, villagers are struggling against shale gas exploration that threatens to transform their lands and livelihoods.
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Shale gas exploration, or ‘fracking’, is on the rise, and is not without controversy with many concerned about its potential for environmental damage. In northern Poland, gas and oil exploration companies are increasingly making use of the techni...
An oil bonanza, but not for the Irish people | Michael Burke
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Britain's North Sea oil boom was hardly a model of sustainable growth, yet Ireland looks set to make the same mistakesDiscovery of oil off the southwest cost of Ireland has prompted talk of it being great news for the Irish economy. It could certainl...
Re energising Europe
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By the WWF Tomorrow morning, WWF’s new online debate forum poses the following question: “European Commission energy roadmap 2050: Will it lead to a resilient and sustainable energy system?” Some of the leading lights of EU energy polic...
Another cold front on the way from Europe?
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Ofgem's 'Electricity Capacity Assessment', published today, makes for some interesting reading as we enter the winter.This is from the executive summary:The high level of spare capacity in the GB electricity market is set to end quite rapid...
TAP Pipeline Crosses a Hurdle
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A political statement backing one of the two remaining pipeline contenders in the battle to bring natural gas from the Caspian Sea to Europe.
Market coupling does not lower prices!
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Market coupling is one of the key-policies for achieving the EU single electricity market. The EU Commission praises the price-lowering effects of market integration in the first draft of the Internal Market Communication of August 30th: “wholesale...
Greenpeace UK endorsing a bigger role for coal?
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John Sauven, Executive Director, Greenpeace UK, has found a way to save the world:"What man-made, man can undo. First stop exploring for unconventional fossil fuels in Canada’s tar sands or underneath the Arctic. When in a hole, stop digging.&...
The end of Gazprom - and the Putin era - is near
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The demise of the Russian energy giant Gazprom - to be followed by the the fall of dictator Vladimir Putin - now appear almost certain, even if it will take a few years: Gazprom, the natural gas company controlled by the Russian state, is in cri...
Compare and contrast, crude stock edition
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From BNP Paribas’s Harry Tchilinguirian and Gareth Lewis-Davies on Friday.The latest crude and product stock position in the United States:And now the latest crude...
Driving the transition to the low carbon economy
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Back in 2009 the European Commission published a recommendation on ICT which promoted the adoption of ICT and ICT-enabled technologies to deliver emissions reductions. In return, the sector agreed to a number of undertakings, one of which was the de...
As the EU falters a new “empire” could rise in eastern Europe
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By Przemek Skwirczynski One pact which seemed firmly consigned to the history books as recently as f...
Energy Resources in the Eastern Mediterranean: Promise and Peril
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A year ago, a tempest was looming in the Eastern Mediterranean. A Turkish exploration vessel named Piri Reis accompanied by warships and jets approached a contested area of newly discovered naturalRead more…...
Solar power soon to go mainstream
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Europe's demand for electricity is increasing and this power will have to come from more varied sources – including solar, which is no longer a niche product, writes Reinhold Buttgereit...
EU Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger: Gas Prices Must Be The Same In All EU Countries
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President Dalia Grybauskaitė and EU Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger discussed the progress made by Lithuania and all Baltic countries in integrating themselves into the EU's energy system and the creation of regional gas and electricity marke...
Market coupling does not lower prices!
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Authors: Georg ZachmannMarket coupling is one of the key-policies for achieving the EU single electricity market. The EU Commission praises the price-lowering effects of market integration in the first draft of the Internal Market Communication of Au...
Energising development: we can enlighten the world
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Number of Views :20Back in New York for the regular rendez-vous at the UN general Assembly week. This year, my agenda is topical as I will attend events related to my priorities. The first day was dedicated to the Sustainable energy for all initiativ...
Shine light on oil and gas industries, say MEPs
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Large gas, oil, mining and logging companies should be required to disclose information about payments to foreign governments, MEPs say...
Slumping trade growth – and more oil Jedi mind tricks?
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Is Saudi Arabia having to again resort to Jedi mind tricks? Does the central bank of oil still have such a big problem with its policy transmission mechanism that it can’t...
Gazprom and EU to meet face to face
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By Alexander Kilyakov The EU was not set on levying fines, but rather was interested in establishing...
A negative spin to crude’s mysterious slide
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People are still scratching their heads over what possibly sparked crude oil’s sell-off in the middle the US trading day on Monday.Explanations in contention include: fat fingers,...
Burnt, oily hands
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Brent crude, tumbling at pixel. (The USO fund too.)Without any public SPR news, we’re scratching our heads over this…...
