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What makes for good energy policy?
Joan MacNaughton, Executive Chair of the WEC’s newly released World Energy Trilemma report, tells us its key findings, and why every government should heed its advice. Tell us about the World Energy Trilemma report. The report measures the sustainability of countries’ energy policies on three dimensions – energy security, environmental mitigation and social equity [...]
Posted on 3 December 2012
The world is far away from achieving environmentally sustainable energy systems
WEC’s Energy Sustainability Index highlights top-performing countries, with policies crucial to performance. The World Energy Council’s (WEC) global ranking of country energy sustainability performance has revealed that most of the over 90 countries assessed are still far from achieving fully sustainable energy systems. The 2012 Energy Sustainability Index, published within the WEC’s 2012 World Energy [...]
Posted on 1 December 2012
Pierre Gadonneix wins Platts 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award
30 November 2012 – Pierre Gadonneix, Chairman of the World Energy Council (WEC), has been presented with a lifetime achievement award at the 2012 Platts Global Energy Awards in New York. The award, in the Vision & Leadership category, recognises his extensive career in the energy sector. Pierre Gadonneix has served at CEO level in [...]
Posted on 30 November 2012
WEC insight could support the next phase of the Energy Charter
WEC recommendations on rules of trade and energy sustainability provide sound basis for updating the Energy Charter, said Einari Kisel, WEC Senior Fellow, at a ministerial conference. Mr Kisel made the remarks on 27 November at the Energy Charter Conference in Warsaw, where the Energy Charter’s 51 member governments from Europe and Asia adopted a historic decision [...]
Posted on 28 November 2012
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