In the wake of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, a prerequisite for the accession of Bulgaria, Lithuania and Slovakia to the European Union was a commitment to prematurely close and subsequently dismantle their early Soviet-designed reactors. Three nuclear power plants with a total of eight reactors...

This study outlines a pathway for commercialisation of stationary fuel cells in distributed generation across Europe. It has been sponsored by the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking (FCH JU), a public-private partnership between the European Commission, the fuel cell and hydrogen industry...

This study outlines a pathway for commercialisation of stationary fuel cells in distributed generation across Europe. It has been sponsored by the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking (FCH JU), a public-private partnership between the European Commission, the fuel cell and hydrogen industry...

The recently adopted Energy Efficiency Directive and other EU and Member State level policy instruments on energy efficiency as well as international greenhouse gas emissions trading systems will have interactions with the EU Emissions Trading System. These are analysed in the present briefing,...

In connection with the European Parliament's own initiative report entitled "Current challenges for renewable Energy in the European Internal Energy market", that is prepared as a follow-up to the European Commission Communication on "Renewable Energy: a major player in the European Energy...

The targeted increase of renewable energy sources in the European energy mix to 20% by 2020, and the goal of an 80-95% CO2 emissions reduction by 2050, will require changes to and extensions of the electricity grid. The integration of increasing shares of fluctuating renewable electricity,...