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The European Energy Market is currently under construction. In this complex process Member States have traditionally retained the power to secure each State's energy supply as a matter of national security. However, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has recently issued several judgments in which national policies are declared to be in breach of core European Union (EU) principles: free movement of capital and freedom of establishment. The article explores the risks of adopting this approach (negative integration) without a clear European regulatory framework (positive integration). Dismantling national regulatory controls without providing a true European alternative can result in a critical precedence of free market over national administrative law.
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[...] access to cheap energy resources is of such major importance for the industrialized countries that it triggers political and military conflicts. [...] the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has increased from the pre-industrial level of 280 parts per million (ppm) to 385 ppm today, resulting in an increase of the average global temperature of about 0.6 °C. Based on results of the International Panel on Climate Change,2 there is a growing scientific and political consensus that an increase of 2°C of the earth's average temperature above pre-industrial levels is the maximum safe level that can be envisaged.
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HOUSE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS: SUBCOMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT AND RELATED AGENCIES HOLDS A HEARING ON FISCAL YEAR 2007 ...
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Attractive feed-in tariffs propel the Queensland solar market - interest in solar energy generation for self-supply is increasing
HORB AM NECKAR, Ge...
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In 2006, the Minister of Energy directed the Ontario Power Authority (the OPA) to develop an Integrated Power System Plan (the IPSP) that focused on c...
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BlueGreen Alliance, American Wind Energy Association, and USW Provide "Manufacturing Blueprint" to Build Out Domestic Wind Energy Supply Chain and Create U.S. Manufacturing Jobs
WASHINGTON, June 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- According to a report released today by the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), BlueGreen Alliance and the United Steelworkers, the U.S. wind industry can create tens of thousands of additional jobs manufacturing wind turbines and components if the U.S. passes long- term policies that create a stable market for the domestic wind energy supply chain.
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... Collection of Information Under the Energy Supply and Environmental Coordination Act of 1974. 207.6...
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HARRISBURG, Pa., Sept. 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Retail Energy Supply Association (RESA), a leading trade association of retail energy suppliers committed to the advocacy of vibrant and sustainable competitive residential and commercial retail energy markets, today announced the addition of Reliant Energy to the Association's membership, increasing the Association's total membership to 15 companies serving residential, business, government and industrial customers across the United States.
Today, it is a pleasure for me to welcome Reliant as RESA's 15th member," said Jay Kooper, President of RESA. "This is an especially positive development given Reliant's long heritage of innovation and value creation for customers of all sizes since the beginning of electric restructuring in ...