It is often argued that energy policy is too fragmented across EU Member States and should be "Europeanized" to pave the way towards an efficiently organized European power system, which rest on the internal market for energy and a pan-European super-grid. However, this view neglects i) the...

Even though there is no common energy policy, EU energy strategy sets the background of the energy landscape in Europe. EU energy policy responds to different challenges in the energy market. One of them is climate change. Growing emissions of greenhouse gases aroused world's interest aimed at...

This document contains the Proceedings of the Workshop "Data Gathering on Renewable Energies for New Member States and Candidate Countries", which was held on 13-15 November 2007 in Istanbul, Turkey. This workshop was the fourth workshop dedicated to data collection on the Renewable Energies in...