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Green energy subsidies: EU vs. US battle

By | 2023-05-04T08:58:18+00:00 April 26th, 2023|Categories: Energy Markets, Energy Policies, Featured, Italy, Portugal, Spain|Tags: , , |

If the European Union has drawn a clear conclusion from the energy crisis derived from the Russia-Ukraine conflict, it has been to accelerate the energy transition in order to reduce its dependence on energy sources from third countries, and not to repeat scenarios of high prices that have put domestic companies and consumers in check, and [...]

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The end of combustion – Electric vehicles 2035

By | 2023-04-21T14:59:08+00:00 April 21st, 2023|Categories: Energy Policies, Featured, Italy, M·Blog, Portugal, Spain|Tags: , , |

Introduction Growing concern for the environment and the need to reduce emissions of polluting gases has led to an increase in the demand for electric vehicles. These vehicles are a priority for governments and the transportation industry worldwide, as they can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The European Union has set an ambitious target to reduce [...]

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Demand Flexibility

By | 2023-04-17T12:51:50+00:00 April 17th, 2023|Categories: Energy Markets, Featured, Italy, Portugal, Spain|Tags: , |

Energy despite being associated to human progress since its dawn, endorses a great intrinsic challenge, its management. In European markets, these management lays on two main actors: the market operator (MO) and the System Operator (SO). The market operator acts as a central procurement chamber where a marginalist price auction for each hour of the day [...]

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Roadmap for GOs

By | 2023-03-29T10:25:57+00:00 March 29th, 2023|Categories: Electricity Markets, Energy Markets, Energy Policies, Featured, Italy, M·Blog, Portugal, Spain|Tags: , , |

When power plants in Europe produce 1 MWh of renewable energy, a certificate is issued indicating how, where and when that unit of energy was produced. Companies can purchase these certificates, or Guarantees of Origin (GoOs), to claim that they buy clean energy and report on the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. In 2019 we wrote [...]

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2020 in perspective

By | 2020-12-21T10:25:12+00:00 December 21st, 2020|Categories: Coal, Electricity Markets, Energy Markets, Energy Policies, Featured, Gas, Italy, M·Blog, Oil, Portugal, Spain|Tags: , , |

Everyone expected so much of 2020, setting it at an important milestone for the World with the globalization peaking and the technology and social barriers being tested constantly. On the other hand, the long trade war between US and China was weighing on the markets and a recession was on the edge. Despite that, no one [...]

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The new proposal on the European Green Deal to put forward a comprehensive plan to increase the European Union’s target for 2030

By | 2020-09-29T15:22:16+00:00 September 29th, 2020|Categories: Energy Markets, Italy, M·Blog, Portugal, Spain|Tags: , , |

2020 is almost over and the European Union looks set to meet its emissions reduction targets, but the 2030 targets will most likely be increased. This is increasing the volatility of the emissions trading market, but is the price increase really supported? Let us remember the targets of the EU The Green Energy Package established by [...]

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The Covid-19 emergency and its impact on the photovoltaic sector

By | 2020-05-14T09:40:59+00:00 May 12th, 2020|Categories: Electricity Markets, Energy Markets, Featured, Italy, M·Blog|Tags: , , |

In an earlier blog, we put on the table how the energy market in Italy has been radically affected by the Covid-19 health emergency. We recall that, among the different European member states, Italy was chronologically the first victim of the pandemic and a symbol of example for the rest of the European countries on the [...]

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Italy: a country on its knees. The energy sector hard hit by the COVID-19 spread.

By | 2022-08-22T20:03:53+00:00 March 26th, 2020|Categories: Electricity Markets, Energy Markets, Featured, Gas, Italy, M·Blog|Tags: , , |

Today we are talking about a subject that is particularly close to my heart, which is my country of origin, Italy. In recent weeks, it has been the first in our continent to be the main character of the coronavirus fury. We will see how the epidemic has hit the Italian energy sector hardly, creating dynamics [...]

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ITALIAN ENERGY TRANSITION: Proposal for a National Plan for Energy and Climate

By | 2019-03-05T12:34:10+00:00 March 5th, 2019|Categories: Energy Policies, Italy, M·Blog|Tags: , , |

CURRENT SITUATION For a long time Italy has pursued the widest use of tools that improve together energy security, environmental protection and access to energy costs, contributing to the European objectives on energy and the environment. The Ministry of Economic Development, the Ministry of the Environment, the Ministry of Infrastructures and Transport and the Ministry of [...]