GLG News by Energy / Utilities Experts: Legal, Economic, and Regulatory Affairs (Germany)

The requirement to satisfactorily prove additionality as part of any CDM application limits the extent to which projects that would have happened anyway slip through to benefit from the CDM process. However, it is almost certain that the inherent difficulty in proving (or disproving) additionality has...

There is another flaw in the Arrhenius argument, not mentioned in peer reviews dealing with the distinction between wholesale power market spot and future prices. The Arrhenius authors appear to assume that green certificates would be issued or required on top of the German feed-in tariff...

- potential for "self-sustained" market penetration of renewables limited - trade-off between different policy objectives: liberalised power in Europe markets vs. high market share of renewables

The European Commission has published on 10 January a set of findings and possible new measures related to the power and gas sectors. DG TREN, the part of the Commission responsible for energy policy, suggests that unbundling and regulatory controls must be strengthened as part of...

The European Commission will publish a package of findings and possible new measures related to the power and gas sectors on 10 January.The work of DG COMP and DG TREN on their analyses has been closely coordinated.Anti-trust actions, or threats of action, combined with proposals to introduce a third...