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Never think conventional if it is about the future By Ben Warner In the former editorial I argued that the fast changes in the energy sector could lead to a race between market developments and strategies in a more complicating environment. Let me explain. |
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A race between fast changes in markets and strategies comes into being By Ben Warner How fast can markets and strategies turn? Those who thought that the relationship between Russia and Europe concerning energy supply in former days was rather complicated may reconsider their opinions in view of what is coming into focus. The writers oftoday's main feature offer you a factual analysis of new market factors that make pace influencing the pricing of energy, especially that of natural gas. |
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Diversification: a blessing or showstopper? By Ben Warner It seems that Europe is following two tracks concerning the energy transition. Eurocratics believe in a topdown approach in order to unite the member states under an umbrella of collective regulations that advance the transition towards a sustainable future. The member states themselves follow a trail very much linked to their national characteristics as far as energy is concerned. Discussions are rising, as this weeks main feature makes clear. |
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Hello goodbye By Karel Beckman As you can read in the publisher's notice above, this is my last editorial for European Energy Review. It's goodbye for now, but I hope there will be many hellos again in the future. |
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Back in the USSR? By Karel Beckman This was the dream: a single European copper plate. A single dynamic innovative European energy sector with suppliers competing freely - like car manufacturers or oil companies. The State? It would have withered away. It would be present only in the background, setting the regulatory framework, but not interfering in the market. |
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Long and winding roads By Karel Beckman In this edition of our newsletter I discuss some possible Roads to Re-industrialisation in Europe. I have this strange notion that this is a subject that we should perhaps be reading and talking about every day rather than about some sordid murder on the other side of the world. I know, very naive of me. |
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Twenty Something By Karel Beckman After the EU adopted the famous 20-20-20 targets, we now learn that 20% of the new proposed EU budget for 2014-2020 is to be spent on climate action. Does Mr Barroso want to go down in history as Mister 20%? |
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Smog on the water By Karel Beckman What does it mean when the Chinese authorities plead with people to please not set off fireworks during the Chinese New Year celebrations? I guess it means good news for the global gas industry. |
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Mean Mrs Merkel By Karel Beckman On Monday an interesting meeting of minds took place at an energy conference in Essen, Germany, on the eve of the big annual E-World Exhibition. The idealistic German energy world view brushed with more pragmatic outside views. With instructive results. |
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It's electrifying! By Karel Beckman I got chills they're multiplying; and I'm losing control; cause the power you're supplying; it's electrifying! |
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February made them shiver By Karel Beckman Some Anglo-Saxon media last week announced the death of the German Energiewende, as CDU Environment Minister Altmaier announced measures to curb rising energy prices. But this is a misunderstanding of how the ruling German conservatives of CDU and CSU feel about renewable energy. Which is very different from their UK and US counterparts. |
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Eve of destruction By Karel Beckman Who remembers the "Arab Spring"? The bright hopes for North Africa and the Middle East seem to have become very black in a very short time. This should make us all very worried. |
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Energy Wonderland By Karel Beckman In which King Coal makes a comeback, President Putin loses his patience with Gazprom, Prime Minister Cameron contradicts himself and Executive Director Maria van der Hoeven says it's time for some real action on the gas market. |
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We all stand together By Karel Beckman The struggle for European energy market integration is an uphill one - certainly when you want to connect North Africa to Europe as well. Here are two dispatches from the integration front. |
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Ever the twain shall meet By Karel Beckman "Where politics and markets meet" is - since the beginning of this year - the slogan of European Energy Review - and it was never as appropriate as in today's edition of our newsletter. |
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Of biofuels and Polish-German energy relations - plus breaking news on CCS By Karel Beckman There has been a strong backlash against biofuels. But aren't we in danger of throwing out the bio-baby with the bathwater? |
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Forward to the cave By Karel Beckman Does Olkiluoto-3 in Finland represent the first practical demonstration of a new generation of nuclear power plants in Europe? Or the last gasp of a dying technology? |
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Oil Fields Forever By Karel Beckman If I had to select one outstanding feature of the Energy Year 2012, I would say it's how much the perspective has changed on the availability of oil and gas resources. |
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Imagine By Karel Beckman This is our last newsletter of the year – and we end on some hopeful, positive notes. |
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A Christmas Energy Story By Karel Beckman With Christmas coming up, what could be more appropriate than to have a story about brave Little Guys who are fighting Big Business and Big Government to make the Energy World a better place? |
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Be my carbon baby By Karel Beckman Is carbon emission trading the Holy Grail that will lead us out of our climate predicament? Or is it rather a diversion that is leading us into a dead end of fanciful accounting and even downright fraud? |
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Everything's gonna be alright By Karel Beckman In the energy sector many feel that the internal energy market is in crisis. Unilateralism seems rife and the tensions in the system seem to be getting worse. Is the energy market following the path of the Eurozone? |
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A tale of two energy visions By Karel Beckman What a luxury for me as an editor to be able to present two great articles to you. In fact, they might well be called two tales of Europe's energy future. One is about Gazprom's great new pipeline project South Stream. The other about the great Desertec project that is aimed at bringing solar power from North Africa to Europe. |
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Bio Battle By Karel Beckman It is one of the most striking about-turns ever made by the environmental movement – and by the European Commission. They have collectively turned against biofuels made from food crops. It does sound like the Right thing to do. But is it? |
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Good cop, bad cop By Karel Beckman On Monday, the 18th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the UNFCCC will kick off in Doha, Qatar. Yes, here we are with another UN climate conference, or COP, as these annual talkfests are affectionately called by their habitués. |
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The fine line of the IEA By Karel Beckman The annual flagship publication of the International Energy Agency's World Energy Outlook (WEO) has become a major event in energy land and indeed far beyond. The IEA's Chief Economist Fatih Birol told me in an interview I had him with on Thursday in The Hague, that on Monday, when the 2012 edition of the WEO came out, it got as many hits on Google as the Petraeus affair! |
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Happy days are here again By Karel Beckman It's official. Peak oil is dead. If the United States can become an oil exporter again in the future, surely we no longer have to fear an energy crisis? |
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Can we still be friends? By Karel Beckman Will the Eurozone crisis be followed by an Energyzone crisis this winter? The Czechs have warned the Germans they will shut their grid to German power exports if blackouts threaten. The Germans and Austrians for their part, fearing a Fukushima-disaster in their backyard, are calling on the Czechs not to build any new nuclear power reactors. The energy divisions across Europe are running ever deeper. |
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The Da WEC Code By Karel Beckman Five years ago, in November 2007, European Energy Review was launched - at the triennial Congress of the World Energy Council in Rome. Today we publish an interview I had with WEC’s Secretary-General, Christoph Frei, in which he explains what this slightly mysterious worldwide energy network is all about. "We try to keep the political stakes low." |
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US LNG - coming soon to a place near you! By Karel Beckman A stampede to export cheap US shale gas in the form of LNG will shake up gas markets around the world. In Europe, it will increase pressure on the big pipeline gas suppliers, Russia in particular, to re-think how they price their gas, or risk losing market share. The gas market will never be the same again. |
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Harmony and understanding By Karel Beckman In these days of global conflict and confrontation, I am glad to say that this issue of European Energy Review is dedicated to international peace and partnership. |
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