“They’re trying to get nuclear everywhere where it doesn’t fit … to have policy lock-in,” said one EU diplomat who spoke on condition of anonymity, adding: “Everybody is a little annoyed at the French it’s very aggressive.”
"I told the foreign minister . `End this war of aggression. Engage in meaningful diplomacy that can produce a just and durable peace,'" Blinken said at a news conference during a Group of 20 summit in India.
In this episode of Watt Matters, we make sense of the short and long-term measures that Brussels is proposing to alleviate Europe's energy price crisis and its impact on the EU's energy companies.
A coalition of industrialists and electricity companies have expressed concerns about a draft emission threshold below which hydrogen would be considered “green” under the EU’s sustainable finance taxonomy.
As it stands, the draft threshold is so low that it would shut the door to hydrogen produced from the power grid, even in places like France and the Nordic countries which have a low-carbon electricity mix, the coalition says.
Their worries are expressed in a letter sent on Thursday (11 March) to EU climate chief Frans Timmermans and other officials in the European Commission in charge of the internal market, financial services, and energy.