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Leaked: draft EU #EnergyUnion Communication on Heating & Cooling

January 21, 2016

On Wednesday 10 February the European Commission will present the so-called Energy Union ‘Winter Package’. The package will consist of five elements: Revised Security of Gas Supply Regulation Proposal for a revised decision on Intergovernmental agreements in the field of energy Strategy for Liquefied Natural Gas & Storage Strategy for heating and cooling Decision to…

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Blog, climate, consumers, cooling, energy, environment, EU Energy Union, heating, renewables

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Leaked: draft State of the EU #EnergyUnion

November 2, 2015

On Wednesday 18 November the European Commission will present the first so-called ‘State of the Energy Union‘. A draft of this document was leaked to me last week (28 October 2015). The draft has 14 pages (plus cover page). Its structure: Introduction (p 1) Decarbonisation of the economy – addressing climate change (p 1) Progress made…

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Blog, climate, energy, energy efficiency, EU Energy Union, EU ETS, renewables

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EU Environment Council 26 October: EU ETS & fossil fuel subsidies

October 10, 2015

EU Ministers for Environment and Climate will meet on Monday 26 October 2015. While the meeting page currently (10 October) contains no agenda or documents yet, elsewhere I spotted two documents that indicate what will be on the agenda. On 9 October, the Council General Secretariat sent two documents to the EU Member States’ Permanent…

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Blog, climate, energy, environment, EU Energy Union, EU ETS, fossil fuel subsidies

For energy geeks: world’s first offshore interconnection that is using national grid connections to offshore wind-farms

September 25, 2015

(from a press release) European Commission confirms eligibility of revised technical concept for new Danish-German offshore interconnector Energinet.dk and 50Hertz plan to establish a 400 MW offshore interconnection between national power grids  25 September 2015. Fredericia, Berlin. The European Commission has now granted the revised technical layout for the world’s first offshore interconnection that is…

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Blog, energy, EU Energy Union, interconnectors, renewables

Draft Energy Council conclusions on EU #EnergyUnion governance

September 1, 2015

Update 2 October: the Treaty references have been ‘erroneously deleted’ from the draft conclusions of the 26 November Energy Council. The General Secretariat of the Council sent a corrigendum. Still missing from Treaty refs though: the legal condition for Member States’ right to determine their energy mix: ‘Without prejudice to the application of other provisions of the Treaties‘….

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Blog, climate, energy efficiency, EU Energy Union, governance, renewables

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Alice Stollmeyer is a Digital Advocacy Strategist. She has lived and worked in Paris, Amsterdam and Brussels, the heart of the European Union.

With a solid background in social science, science studies and communications, Alice has been working on energy and climate issues since 2009. In 2012 she founded her own consultancy @StollmeyerEU, which specialises in EU public affairs, political communications and digital advocacy.

In 2016 @StollmeyerEU broadened its portfolio to politics, democracy, human rights and digital developments.

From November 2016, Alice started tweeting and blogging more broadly about politics, democracy, human rights and digital developments. Not just in the European Union, but increasingly with an eye on what is happening in the United States.


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