EU Council: enhance storage capacity for energy security
On 23 October EU leaders committed by to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 40%, and increase EU renewable energy to least 27%. The energy…
UK government unveils major investment in H2 infrastructure
The UK Government on October 9 unveiled its plans to provide up to £11million support to facilitate the roll-out of hydrogen fuelled vehicles and associated hydrogen…
EC proposal updates Fuel Quality Directive’s fuels’ carbon intensity calculation.
The EU Commission adopted a proposal to implement existing obligations in the 2009 amendment of the Fuel Quality Directive on October 7, 2014. Article 7a of…
Romania Energy Independent by 2020
Romania is expected to achieve energy independence by the end of the decade, due to shale gas and alternative energy sources like wind and nuclear power.…
Adopted EU Clean Power for Transport…now get H2 into these national policy frameworks!
The final EU Directive on Deployment of alternative fuels Infrastructure (COM 2013/18) has been adopted by EU the Council on 29 September 2014 following the inter-institutional…
€11.9 Billion to improve European transport connections
EU member states have until 26 February 2015 to propose projects to take advantage of the €11.9 billion of EU funding being made available to improve…
Large group of investors calls for leadership, ambitious policies on climate change
Just before a weekend of protest marches around the world more than 340 institutions called on September 18 for stronger policies on climate change to facilitate…
New Urban Electric Mobility Initiative launched at UN Climate Summit
On 23 September world leaders met in New York at a UN Climate Summit. Among others action areas identified, there was also transport, which contributes about one…
New EU Commission towards European Energy Union?
On September 10 the Commission President-elect Jean-Claude Juncker presented his team of 27 commissioners. Under the new European Commission Dutch Foreign Minister Timmermans will officially be First Vice-President…
TEN T Calls published as part of Connecting Europe Facility
On September 11, 2014 the EC published the first Call for Transport under the new Connecting Europe Facility (CEF). CEF Transport is the successor of the TEN-T Programme. The main objective of…