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Strategic Materials and Energy Transition: Nickel
Widespread in our modern societies, nickel is essential to many industrial sectors, as well as for the construction industry. At…
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FORATOM Proposes Improvements to Taxonomy Complementary Delegated Act
FORATOM welcomes the decision of the European Commission to include nuclear within the sustainable finance taxonomy under certain conditions. FORATOM…
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EUR 24mln Hungarian Investment Aid to Volta Energy Solutions’ Battery Copper Foil Plant
The European Commission has found Hungary’s EUR 24 million investment aid to Volta Energy Solutions for the extension of a…
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Industrial Emissions: Re-endorsement of Rules for Large Combustion Plants to Reduce Air Pollution
The European Commission published on 30 December 2021 an implementing decision to reduce emissions from large combustion plants. Large combustion…
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EU Taxonomy: Natural Gas and Nuclear Energy, Transition Energy Label?
Europe has decided to obtain carbon neutrality by 2050 and reliance on Russian gas and increased energy prices are a…
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EU 5th List of Projects of Common Interest
The European Commission approved the 5th list of Projects of Common Interest (PCIs) in the field of trans-European energy infrastructure.…
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Ciprian Păltineanu on INSPET’s Vision and Prospects for the Future
In 2021, INSPET marks 30 years of excellence in oil & natural gas infrastructure. We used the occasion to talk…
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Baker McKenzie Study: Inclusion of Nuclear Energy in the EU Green Taxonomy
A new study by Baker McKenzie underscores the fact that excluding Nuclear Power Production (NPP) from the EU Green Taxonomy…
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FPPG Message on EU Toolbox
The Oil and Gas Employers’ Federation (FPPG) welcomes the European Commission’s initiative to reduce the effects of the exceptional increase…
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Wind Energy Expansion in Romania at Risk
Romania is considering a second phase of wind energy expansion. That could be seriously undermined now as on October 29,…
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FORATOM Warns of “Limited Attention to Nuclear in EC’s Energy Price Communication”
FORATOM would have liked to see the European Commission’s (EC) energy price communication pay closer attention to the role which…
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Tackling Rising Energy Prices: A Toolbox for Action and Support
The European Commission adopted a Communication on Energy Prices, to tackle the exceptional rise in global energy prices, which is…
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European Commission Endorses Romania’s EUR 29.2bln Recovery and Resilience Plan
The European Commission (EC) has adopted a positive assessment of Romania’s recovery and resilience plan, an important step towards the…
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Energy Transitions in Europe
Energy transitions has hit a snag. Since the end of the World War II and even today, the economies of…
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Strategic Materials and Energy Transition: Aluminium
Aluminium has seen tripling production in the last twenty years and green transition promises to use it increasingly more in…
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Fit for 55 Package: Speeding up Decarbonization
In the European Commission work programme for 2021, the revisions and initiatives linked to the European Green Deal climate actions…
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Europe’s Largest Hydrogen Electrolyser
Shell has started up Europe’s largest hydrogen electrolyser of its kind at its energy and chemicals park Rheinland, in Germany.…
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Will We Enable a Just and Socially Inclusive Energy Transition in Romania?
“No person and no place are left behind in the energy transition” is the promise that the European Commission made…
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Digital Sovereignty: EC Kick-starts Alliances for Semiconductors and Industrial Cloud Technologies
The European Commission (EC) kick-starts on July 19 two new Industrial Alliances: The Alliance for Processors and Semiconductor technologies, and…
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Coal Mines in Europe
Coal mines are not just images from ‘Germinal’, Émile Zola’s famous novel. Although doomed to disappear due to the…
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