|
|
| Working Groups |
 |
| 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 |
|
| SME Energy Information |
|
| Liberalisation of EU energy market is insufficient |
The European Commission published a less than satisfactory review of the Liberalisation of the European Energy Markets. According to the review, a number of Directives concerning energy liberalisation have not been sufficiently implemented. The lack of infrastructure readiness and the independence of operating companies have formed further barriers to liberalisation.
|
| SME Energy: Green Paper on Energy Efficiency |
Because of a changed bahaviour of the consumers and the use of energy efficient technologies the European Union could save until 2020 a fifth of the current energy consumption. With the Green paper around EUR 60 billion could be spent less on Energy. This is from the Green paper, which the European Commission presented last week.
In this book several options are presented, how the saving can be affected exactly. Around half of it could be saved just by the complete realization of existing EU-legal instruments. For the rest there is the need for additional efforts. The Commission proposes for example to promote the production of environment-friendly vehicles or to minimize the losses at the production and transport of electricity by the use of modern technologies by incentives of taxes. Other proposals concern different areas of commercial economy, the service sector, but also private households. The Commission calculates that an average household could save EUR 100 by using energy saving lamps.
Additionally to the financial savings those measures could also be a contribution to decrease the dependence of the EU of fossil sources of energy, as well as reducing the CO2- output concerning the Kyoto-objectives.
Further information |
|
|
| 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 |
|