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For months energy market observers have been predicting that the solar photovoltaics industry, which has grown enormously over the past six years -- 50% in the last year alone -- was headed for a fall.

Continue reading: A solar energy bubble? Or continuing prosperity? »

Posted by David Jones at 11:01 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Since the 1960s the price of gas in continental Europe has been in some way or another linked to the price of oil. With cross-border pipelines and interconnectors, that linkage has spilled over into other markets like the UK and Ireland. But with oil prices at record highs, consumers face the prospects of even higher gas prices. Why should gas prices automatically follow oil prices higher?

Continue reading: Time to break the link between oil and gas prices? »

Posted by Paul Whitehead at 01:51 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Could EU policy-makers make successful laws without lobbyists? In a few weeks EU politicians will vote on a large, complex and technical package of reforms to the EU's internal gas and power market laws--and their knowledge of it will have been greatly informed by a phalanx of specialist interest groups.

Continue reading: Thank you for lobbying »

Posted by Siobhan Hall at 11:19 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Is a job worth doing worth doing badly? This is the question that EU legislators must be thinking as they tackle two of the European Commission's biggest, most complicated and controversial packages of draft energy and climate protection laws.

Continue reading: The EU's fourth way: deal with it later »

Posted by Siobhan Hall at 04:00 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Biomass energy--renewable organic material from trees, plants, manure, or waste--is already Europe's largest source of renewable energy, accounting for no less than two thirds of the EU's renewable energy according to figures from the European Commission. As use of biomass grows, will a traded market emerge?

Continue reading: A traded market for biomass? »

Posted by Paul Whitehead at 12:46 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)