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The EU has set itself a new renewables target for 2030 and wants to reach a share of at least 42.5% and ideally 45% renewables in its energy consumption. Commission President von der Leyen recently made clear that the Union strives for a net-zero power sector by 2040. However, it …

Lawmakers on Tuesday validated the bill to accelerate the construction of new nuclear reactors. The compromise text struck between the National Assembly and the Senate was voted by 339 votes to 100. MPs from the majority (Renaissance, Horizons, Modem), the independents (LIOT), the right (Les Républicains) and the extreme right …

As Europe shuts down its remaining coal power plants and turns away from volatile gas for electricity generation, it is also losing key flexible power supplies that can be switched on at the last minute to keep the lights on during peak hours. To replace those, the European Union hopes …

2023 will mark the beginning of the decline in fossil fuels, following the peak of global electricity emissions in 2022, according to a new report released on Wednesday (12 April) by energy think-tank Ember. “In this decisive decade for the climate, it is the beginning of the end of the …

A provisional agreement on the Renewable Energy Directive (REDIII) was reached between the European Council, European Parliament, and the European Commission on 30 March 2023. REDIII is part of the ‘Fit for 55’ package, bringing EU legislation in line with the 2030 greenhouse gas emission reduction goal. Biomass currently contributes …

A burgeoning row between France and Germany fired by differences over nuclear energy and combustion engines threatens to spill over into a gathering of the 27 European Union leaders on Thursday (23 March). A row erupted between two of the European Union’s biggest economies after Berlin upset some of its …

Europe feels pretty strained lately, torn between the cost of living crisis, the fossil fuel prices crisis and increasing climate impacts. And we have seen European capitals at work trying to answer to immediate crises, while sometimes forgetting that the quick responses should pave the way for the longer transformation …

Berlin is planning to introduce a special industrial electricity tariff ranging between €0.05 and €0.09 per kilowatt-hour in order to boost the country’s competitiveness and push back against US and Chinese subsidies. Electricity has always been pricey in Germany – a 2015 study by the Fraunhofer Institute found that the …

Amendments to the EU’s draft methane regulation would allow coal mines to release additional greenhouse gases equivalent to the combined annual CO2 emissions of Belgium and Czechia, according to Ember, a clean energy think-tank. The analysis, published on Thursday (2 March), shows the latest revisions to the regulation will only …

By 2030, renewables should produce 80% of German electricity, according to the government’s plans. Recently, Chancellor Olaf Scholz gave out the order to construct “four to five onshore wind turbines a day” by 2030 and promised to check in with Germany’s 16 states “every month” to verify “how far they …