Shale gasLow-carbon energyEU energy policy
  • Can shale gas transform Europe's energy landscape?
    Policy brief by David Buchan, 10 July 2013
    Can shale gas transform Europe's energy landscape?
  • How to create a single European electricity market - and subsidise renewables
    Policy brief by David Buchan, 26 April 2012
    Low-carbon energy
  • Launch of 'Green, safe, cheap: Where next for EU energy policy’
    Event, 27 October 2011, London
    Launch of 'Green, safe, cheap' with Charles Hendry MP
  • 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, Alexandros Petersen, 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 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.
  • Pipeline politics: Why Nabucco is stuck
    Insight by Katinka Barysch, 29 January 2010

    Last year, plans for the Nabucco pipeline – almost a decade in the making – appeared finally to make some headway. In March, the EU earmarked €200 million for preparatory work.