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A group of seven EU countries led by Germany have rejected calls to incorporate nuclear-made hydrogen into the bloc’s green transport targets, reigniting a dispute with France that has held back an agreement on the bloc’s renewable energy directive.

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With plans for a national nutrition strategy in the EU Farm to Form vein, German agriculture minister Cem Özdemir wants to make diets healthier and more plant-based, but some say the proposal is dictating what people can and cannot eat.

Britons will soon receive practical information on how to reduce their energy usage in winter.

Delivering his keynote speech at EnergyUK’s annual conference, Jonathan Brearley, Ofgem Chief Executive, said: “We will shortly be launching a campaign to explain the support that is available, on how to reduce energy consumption and what customers should expect from their providers.

Member states have pledged to redistribute the energy sector's surplus profits to low income customers

Brussels doesn’t have the votes to pass sweeping emergency powers. A group of European Union countries mainly from the south has already shot down Brussels' bid to grant itself the power to ration gas around the bloc less than 24 hours after the debut of the proposal Wednesday. 

Germany will introduce a monthly pass, at the price of just 9 euros, that will be valid for all public transport, including trains, subway and buses. The decision came as a response to rising fuel pri..

On 5 May, the Danish Parliament officially approved a new law, allowing the country’s 98 municipalities to ban the use of wood-burning stoves and fireplaces produced before June 2008 in areas with district heating or natural gas. In doing so, the government hopes to significantly reduce air pollution and decrease the number of deaths caused by it.

Doter la France d’un parc nucléaire pour réduire sa dépendance aux importations de pétrole, après la crise pétrolière de 1973, tel était l’objectif du président Valéry Giscard d’Estaing quand il a lancé, en 1974, un programme qui allait aboutir à la construction de 45 centrales de production d’électricité d’origine nucléaire.

La loi sur le climat, qui inscrit pour la première fois officiellement dans un texte législatif l’objectif d’atteindre la neutralité carbone d’ici 2050, a été présentée lundi par le ministère slovaque de l’Environnement.

The government approved on Tuesday its plan to tackle energy poverty and to help the poorest households adequately heat their homes amid cold snaps and rising energy bills.

Boosting the EU’s ambition on renewable energy could halve gas imports and save billions of euros.
A “small step up” in ambition for renewables would make a massive difference, according to energy think tank Ember.
Adopting a target for renewables to make up 45 per cent - instead of 40 per cent - of Europe’s energy mix by the end of the decade would save €43 billion in 2030, it calculated.
In total, €200 billion of gas costs could be avoided between 2025 and 2030. Between these dates, Germany alone would save €49.7 billion, Italy €29.9 billion and the Netherlands €20.2 billion.

The EU as a whole is aiming for 82 per cent clean power by the end of the decade but some member states are looking to go one step further.

Minister Zorana Mihajlović signed an agreement with GIZ on the Promotion of Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency in Serbia.

COLUMN. The measure comes against a background of skyrocketing inflation that has rekindled the debate on inequality in the United Kingdom, as journalist Jean-Michel Bezat explains.

Last week, Ireland’s Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, Eamon Ryan, formally inaugurated the country’s first large scale solar farm. The site is located near Ashford in County Wicklow and it hosts more than 30,000 solar panels, which will directly connect to the electricity grid.
This project represents a significant departure from Ireland’s previous renewable energy strategy, which focused heavily on on-shore wind turbines, marking the Millvale solar farm as the first of its kind for the Republic.