Activity Report 2012 - Eurelectric

2012 at a glance
EURELECTRIC’s annual Markets Conference attracts
numerous high-level speakers, including EU Energy
Commissioner Günther Oettinger and Alberto Pototschnig,
Director of EU regulatory agency ACER. EURELECTRIC
reiterates its call on European policymakers to rely on market
processes to deliver the most cost-efficient decarbonisation
solution.
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In a statement addressed to the 21 st European Gas
Regulatory Forum in Madrid, EURELECTRIC calls
for the completion of the internal gas market. Gas
plays an essential role for the power sector due to
its promising use as back-up capacity for variable
generation from renewables like wind and solar.
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Following the publication of the European
Commission’s Energy Roadmap 2050 in December,
a EURELECTRIC workshop stresses that Europe’s
future energy policy must tackle the transformation
of the energy landscape in the most cost-efficient
way: by strengthening energy markets and market
mechanisms, and by favouring coherent and
integrated policy instruments over a multitude
of overlapping targets.
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EURELECTRIC publishes its ‘Smartness
Barometer’, a report providing a clear
method for potential investors to
assess smart grids investments. The
report builds on intensive joint work
between EURELECTRIC and the European
Commission’s Joint Research Centre.
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A position paper sets out
EURELECTRIC’s main concerns and
recommendations regarding the
process of adopting EU-wide binding
network codes, as part of the internal
energy market. In particular, it argues
that the smooth and timely adoption
of the codes should not prevent
stakeholders from being properly
consulted.
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EURELECTRIC President Fulvio Conti
announces the sector’s support for
the EU’s ‘Sustainable Energy for All’
initiative, at a high-level conference
with Un Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
and European Commission President
José Manuel Barroso in Brussels.
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EURELECTRIC teams up with automotive
associations ACEA and CLEPA to promote a single
European standard for charging electric vehicles.
Their joint statement urges the EU to ensure the
implementation of a harmonised plug system for
electric vehicles in Europe as rapidly as possible.
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At the EURELECTRIC Annual Conference and Convention
in Malta, President Fulvio Conti urges the Commission
to take immediate action to boost the EU Emissions
Trading Scheme and deliver low-carbon investment.
The EU urgently needs to improve the coherence of
its policy instruments to avoid putting its energy and
climate goals at risk and unnecessarily increasing the
cost of its energy transition, he says.
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