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1 month ago | 
politico.eu | Victor Jack |Max Griera |Gabriel Gavin
BRUSSELS — Europe’s nuclear advocates are pushing their favorite energy source as a deterrent against the type of blackout that seized Spain and Portugal last week — even if the facts paint a muddied picture. The EU’s atomic allies are claiming that having more nuclear energy coursing through the grid can help ensure a stable power supply to back up renewable sources like wind and solar.
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1 month ago | 
politico.eu | Gabriel Gavin |Victor Jack |Giovanna Coi
BRUSSELS — The European Union wants its members to stop funding Russia's war in Ukraine. And it's done with asking nicely. An ambitious new strategy launched by the EU’s executive on Tuesday would, if implemented, effectively end Moscow's lucrative gas sales to the continent in 2027 and require gas firms to break contracts with the Kremlin. That sets the stage for a major showdown between Brussels and the handful of leaders still pushing Russian energy.
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1 month ago | 
politico.eu | Victor Jack |Gabriel Gavin |Giovanna Coi
BRUSSELS — The European Union’s executive will soon unveil legislation to end all Russian gas imports by the end of 2027. The goal is at the core of a plan that the European Commission presented on Tuesday. The Commission said it will release legislation next month to ban new gas contracts with Russia — a prohibition that would kick in at the end of 2025 for short-term market purchases, and at the end of 2027 for long-term contracts.
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1 month ago | 
wiadomosci.onet.pl | Gabriel Gavin |Victor Jack
We wtorek Komisja Europejska, organ wykonawczy UE, przedstawi długo oczekiwany plan zerwania ostatnich powiązań energetycznych bloku z Rosją. Według dwóch europejskich dyplomatów plan ten będzie zawierał propozycję przyznania prywatnym firmom nowych uprawnień do wycofania się z inwestycji w Rosji, umożliwiając im wcześniejsze rozwiązanie umów i nakłaniając do wstrzymania wszelkich przyszłych transakcji. Dla UE to ostatnia deska ratunku dla UE.
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1 month ago | 
politico.eu | Gabriel Gavin |Victor Jack
BRUSSELS — The European Union is appealing to an unlikely ally to help finally rid the continent of Russian energy: oil and gas executives. They're not all necessarily that interested, though. On Tuesday, the European Commission, the EU’s executive, will unveil a long-awaited plan to sever the bloc’s final Russian energy links.
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1 month ago | 
politico.eu | Zia Weise |Aitor Hernández-Morales |Victor Jack
BRUSSELS — The long-neglected web of cables, coils and switches that keeps Europe’s lights on is finally having its moment in the limelight — for all the wrong reasons. Energy concerns have dominated the continent’s politics in recent years, with the European Union shunning Russian imports after Moscow invaded Ukraine and ditching fossil fuels for cleaner alternatives.
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1 month ago | 
politico.eu | Gabriel Gavin |Victor Jack |Aitor Hernández-Morales |Sam Clark |Max Griera
A frantic search is on to figure out what, exactly, caused Spain and Portugal to lose power on Monday, leaving millions of people without access to basic modern necessities. The answer will have serious ramifications for the two countries — and for Europe as a whole. The EU has been pressing the Iberian Peninsula, which has long operated as an energy island within the bloc, to link up better to Europe’s grids.
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1 month ago | 
politico.eu | Zia Weise |Victor Jack
BRUSSELS — The European Commission will suggest measures to forbid companies from signing new oil and gas contracts with Russia in an upcoming plan to end the bloc's reliance on Moscow's imports, according to a senior EU official. The plan, expected on May 6, is part of Brussels’ broader strategy to eliminate Russian energy imports by 2027. The document will float several options for legally binding proposals or trade measures, said the official, who was granted anonymity to speak candidly.
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1 month ago | 
politico.eu | Gabriel Gavin |Victor Jack
Sept pays — la France, l’Allemagne, l’Italie, l’Autriche, la Hongrie, la Slovaquie et les Pays-Bas — ont mené la charge pour réduire les objectifs d’achat de gaz, en préconisant d’abaisser la cible de 90% de la capacité de stockage à 80% dans certaines circonstances. Ils estiment que l’objectif actuel contraint l’UE à acheter d’énormes volumes de gaz, dont une grande partie en provenance des Etats-Unis, à un moment où il est le plus cher.
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1 month ago | 
politico.eu | Gabriel Gavin |Victor Jack
BRUSSELS — The European Union is planning to slash natural gas purchase targets — even as U.S. President Donald Trump insists that buying more gas is the only way to end his trade war. On Tuesday, EU countries advanced plans to loosen mandatory goals for refilling storage facilities ahead of winter — a bid to pay less for supplies, four diplomats told POLITICO.
