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How to create a single European electricity market - and subsidise renewables
Policy brief by David Buchan, 26 April 2012
Launch of 'Green, safe, cheap: Where next for EU energy policy’
Event, 27 October 2011, London
Green, safe, cheap: Where next for EU energy policy?
Report by Katinka Barysch, Stephen Tindale, Christof van Agt, Václav Bartuška, Katinka Barysch, Jonathan Gaventa, Connie Hedegaard, Dieter Helm, Maïté Jauréguy-Naudin, Agata Łoskot-Strachota, Nick Mabey, Günther Oettinger, Pernille Schiellerup, Stephen Tindale, Frank Umbach, Georg Zachmann, 09 September 2011

How to create a single European electricity market - and subsidise renewables

Policy brief by David Buchan, 26 April 2012

Renewable energy needs subsidy. But different national subsidy schemes threaten energy integration. Schemes should be harmonised, even if the amount of subsidy continues to differ.
The Commission's energy roadmap is a missed opportunity

Insight by Stephen Tindale, 22 December 2011

Instead of modelling scenarios in its 2050 energy roadmap, the Commission should have identified priorities for 2012 action: energy efficiency, ETS and a 2030 renewables target.
Russia, China and the geopolitics of energy in Central Asia

Report by Katinka Barysch, 16 November 2011

China is challenging Russia's traditional dominance over Central Asia's oil and gas. The EU can help the Central Asian countries to prevent losing out in a new 'great game'.
Green, safe, cheap: Where next for EU energy policy?

Report by Katinka Barysch, Stephen Tindale, 09 September 2011

Is the EU's policy on renewables damaging the single market? Why do Europeans not use energy more efficiently? Is the EU's gas policy too obsessed with Russia?
The EU should be much bolder on energy efficiency

Insight by Stephen Tindale, 12 October 2010

The most pain-free way for European governments to fight climate change is to use energy more efficiently. At a recent energy conference hosted by the European Commission, it struck me that the EU still has a poverty of ambition when it comes to energy efficiency.
Shale gas and EU energy security

Insight by Katinka Barysch, 11 June 2010

Will unconventional gas solve Europe’s energy security problem? Many EU member-states rely a lot on Russian gas; in the case of some Central and East European countries the dependence is total.
Should the Nabucco pipeline project be shelved?

Policy brief by Katinka Barysch, 05 May 2010

Nabucco - a pipeline to bring Caspian and perhaps Middle Eastern gas to Europe - is the flagship project of the EU's fledgling energy diplomacy. Nabucco would add to the EU's energy security, strengthen its neighbourhood policies and improve relations with Turkey.
How to build an EU energy market

Insight by Katinka Barysch, 18 February 2010

Unbundling the supply of energy from its transport, moving Europe towards a low-carbon energy system, and getting the Nabucco pipeline built – these were the priorities of the last energy commissioner, Andris Piebalgs. His successor, Günther Oettinger, will write his own to-do list.

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