Dec 21, 2022 Germany: Skimming of surplus revenues in the electricity sector By Ruth Losch Mattis El-Haj On 16 December 2022, the Act on a price-break for electricity (Price Break Act) passed the German parliamentary procedure which inter...
Nov 30, 2022 EU: Acceleration of deployment of renewable energy By Lothar Van Driessche Julia Voskoboinikova During COP27 climate conference in Sharm el-Sheikh, the European Commission’s President Ursula von der Leyen said that the European Union...
Nov 16, 2022 The EU's blueprint for a revenue cap on renewable electricity By Ruth Losch Alessandro Gemmo As one reaction to soaring electricity prices the new Council Regulation (EU) 2022/1854 on an emergency intervention to address high...
Feb 02, 2022 EU “Fit for 55”: Decarbonising Gas Markets By Lothar Van Driessche Ruth Losch On 15 December 2021, the European Commission took another major step towards accomplishing its ambitious goal of making Europe the first...
Dec 15, 2021 EU "Fit for 55": The December package has landed By Ruth Losch On 15 December 2021, the EU Commission published the second suite of its “Fit for 55” package, with a number of legislative and policy...
Dec 03, 2021 Germany’s vision for 2030 in climate and energy legislation By Ruth Losch The new German “traffic-light” coalition, between the “red” social-democrats (SPD), the “yellow” liberal-democrats (FDP) and the Green...
Sep 16, 2021 Remuneration of Hydrogen Grids in Germany By Christopher Bremme Julia Sack Ruth Losch Just three weeks before the German Federal elections, the Federal Energy Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) published a...
Aug 20, 2021 EU "Fit for 55": Scaling up ambitions in the Renewable Energy Directive (RED II) By Ruth Losch As part of its Fit for 55 package the Commission submitted a proposal to further amend the Renewable Energy Directive (RED...