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SER-2 [03] Communication of the Security and Solidarity Action Plan

Posted by Luis de Sousa on February 3, 2009 - 2:46pm in The Oil Drum: Europe
Topic: Policy/Politics
Tags: baltic interconnection plan, energy efficiency, energy policy, eu, europe, european supergrid, lng, market liberalization, mediterranean energy ring, original, ser-2, southern gas corridor [list all tags]

Continuing the analysis of the Second Strategic Energy Review (SER-2), the focus this time is on the document entitled “Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, The European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions". This is a formal document that details the Energy Security and Solidarity Action Plan, presented in the Memo reviewed last time.

This post tries to highlight important aspects that aren't referenced in the Memo and presents the implementation steps proposed by the Commission to put the Plan into practice.

Update: Over at the European Tribune an effort is being taken for a common reply to the Public Consultation on the Green Paper Towards a Secure, Sustainable and Competitive European Energy Network. Come and join in.

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SER-2 [02] Memo on the Security and Solidarity Action Plan

Posted by Luis de Sousa on January 15, 2009 - 2:43am in The Oil Drum: Europe
Topic: Policy/Politics
Tags: energy policy, eu, europe, lng, market liberalization, original, russia gas exports, ser-2 [list all tags]

In the second installment of this series analysing the Second Strategic Energy Review (SER-2) by the European Commission, the focus is on to the Memo entitled “EU Energy Security and Solidarity Action Plan”.

This Action Plan is one of the new concepts brought about by SER-2 and marks a visible turn of the Commission's understanding of the European Energy system. Whereas during the first years of its term the Commission relegated Energy Security to second plan, expecting it to magically emerge as consequence of the internal market liberalization and deregulation, now it takes a front seat role in the Commission's Energy Policy.

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Energy Policy: SER-2 [01] Introduction

Posted by Luis de Sousa on January 9, 2009 - 6:08pm in The Oil Drum: Europe
Topic: Policy/Politics
Tags: andris piebalgs, energy policy, eu, europe, market liberalization, original, ser-2 [list all tags]

The European Commission published the Second Energy Review (SER-2) November 2008. Entitled “Securing our Energy Future”, it was made available during the same week the IEA's World Energy Outlook was released, which stole much of the impact it could have had and delayed serious insight up to now.

This Strategy attempts to set a Course of Action towards three main Goals:

  • Sustainability
  • Competitiveness
  • Security of Supply

This log entry is the first of a series that will try to build a critical but constructive review of this crucial element of future Energy Policy in Europe.

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A New Energy Policy for Europe

Posted by Luis de Sousa on January 12, 2007 - 6:33pm in The Oil Drum: Europe
Topic: Policy/Politics
Tags: carbon emissions, energy grid, energy policy, market liberalization, peak gas, peak oil [list all tags]

[ED by Prof. Goose] Jerome a Paris also has an article on the EU energy plan today, it can be found here. It will be up on TOD:Main tomorrow morning.

Wednesday the European Commission released a series of Communications proposing a new revolutionary Energy Policy attempting to address EU’s energy challenges for the XXI century. This is a set of first comments to such proposals.

For a first perspective on what’s at stake, here’s a small graph published by the BBC, that’s worth many thousand words:

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