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Interconnection investment is crucial for European competitiveness – WEC Spain
– by Javier Jiménez Pérez, WEC Spain Creating incentives for investment in interconnection is essential if the EU were to maintain industrial competitiveness, experts said at a recent WEC Spain conference. The EU is well positioned to benefit from today’s ever more globalised energy market, delegates heard. Thus it is crucial to boost financial support for [...]
Posted on 21 November 2012
WEC speaks at Baltic market integration conference
Einari Kisel, WEC Senior Fellow, commented on European energy market policies and discussed the role of the World Energy Council in a presentation at the Conference on the Baltic Energy Market Integration Plan (BEMIP) on 14 September in Vilnius, Lithuania. The BEMIP aims to connect the electricity and gas markets of the Baltic states (Lithuania, [...]
Posted on 14 September 2012
WEC Germany explores energy market at a crossroads
Senior energy experts and politicians gathered at WEC Germany’s 2012 Energy Day on 10 September in Berlin to discuss how the country could navigate through the uncertainties of its future energy policy. According to Leonhard Birnbaum, Chief Commercial Officer of RWE, Germany’s energy policy is at a crossroads as politicians try to decide whether they [...]
Posted on 12 September 2012
FOREN 2012: gas and grid infrastructure, market liberalisation high on agenda
More than 700 energy experts and policymakers gathered at the Central and Eastern Europe Energy Forum (FOREN 2012) in Neptun, Romania (17-21 June 2012) to discuss the region’s critical issues. The issues include national and regional energy policies for the security of supply; electricity markets and the regulatory framework; regional policies on fossil fuel resources; [...]
Posted on 22 June 2012
World Energy Council’s FOREN 2012 to provide ministerial forum to address energy security in Central and Eastern Europe
Over 800 energy experts from government, academia, and industry are expected to gather at FOREN 2012 next week (17–21 June) to address the issue of energy supply security in Central and Eastern Europe. The forum, to take place in Neptun-Olimp, Romania, is the 11th regional energy forum for Central and Eastern Europe organised annually by [...]
Posted on 13 June 2012