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Journalist - energy, climate, buildings and occasionally politics @Euractiv Tell me what I got wrong: [email protected]
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Exit polls see the party at 4.9, 5% which means there is a long night ahead for supporters gathered in Berlin (and me)

Greets from Berlin where the FDP anxiously awaits its fate

All waits for Berlin www.euractiv.com/section/defe...

EU state aid rules should allow the support of hybrid technologies using #fossilfuels when total decarbonisation is not immediately possible, France has said in its position on the EU's Clean Industry Deal, due next week. www.euractiv.com/section/eet/...

Finally, gas storage mandate discourse has hit the German discourse => Could die a fiery death w the Germans (biggest tanks) actually committing to resistance

Lots of empty seats in the European Parliament's energy committee this morning, despite a high level guest: Energy Commissioner Dan Jorgensen

US paper industry asks Trump to seek lighter EU deforestation rules Story with Richa Naidu www.reuters.com/business/us-...

Vor gut 2 Jahren wurde in Chile das Projekt Haru Oni für die Produktion von E-Fuels in Betrieb genommen. Es hat viel Aufmerksamkeit bekommen & dazu beigetragen, die Idee von E-Fuels ⚡⛽ als Alternative zu Elektromobilität🔋 und alternativen Verkehrsmitteln🚲🚆 zu etablieren.🧵

We get it, you guys (European Commission) love the Iberian exemption #energysky (draft affordable energy package, story following shortly)

New: the Clean Industrial Deal (document inside) www.euractiv.com/section/poli...

So what are we going to do when it comes to defence spending? www.euractiv.com/section/econ...

New: Madrid is looking to defend the bloc's Green Deal supply chain laws amid the Brussels red tape cutting drive www.euractiv.com/section/eet/...

Now, the Czechs www.euractiv.com/section/poli...

A great dataset from @ember-energy.org EU imports of Chinese solar panels have steadied in quantity. Price continues to crash. data here - ember-energy.org/data/china-s...

How Moroccan tomato exports (good) have French farmers lashing out www.euractiv.com/section/agri...

With boycotting Tesla'd being the current recourse to the Musk government takeover (even the left seemingly can't remove itself from the simple confines of capitalism), how long before we see another few Mangiones instead?

Die Krone hat leider vergessen zu erwähnen, dass der Büroleiter von Parlamentspräsident Walter Rosenkranz, Rene Schimanek, dort den Hauptwohnsitz hatte. www.krone.at/3690647

New: Brussels wants to halve state aid subsidy limits relaxed during Covid, energy crisis www.euractiv.com/section/econ...

Scoop: Anti-wind activists have joined forces with well-connected figures in conservative legal and energy circles to privately lobby the Trump admin to override scientific decisions by NOAA. The goal? Stop offshore wind projects under construction. heatmap.news/plus/the-fig...

As usual the Germans regasify fuck all, but Belgium is really juicing what must be the Zeebrugge terminal?

European gas imports @bruegel.bsky.social •weekly gas imports exceeded 2024 level, driven by record seasonally high LNG imports •RU gas via Turkstream at a record level •LNG regasification 80% in IT, 78% in PT, 77% in HR •EU gas storage at 47%, UA hit a record low 9% www.bruegel.org/dataset/euro...

❤️Love is in the air... and so are #cocoa prices. Based in Europe's chocolate capital, I spoke to chocolate makers about how they are coping with the global cocoa shortage, predictions for the 2025 season and more. www.euractiv.com/section/agri...

Good take from Jon: Brussels press releases are the equivalent of LinkedIn self-hype, which is why EU officials prefer the platform

Biofuels: Finland's Neste to slash around 600 jobs as quarterly core profit slumps - www.reuters.com/business/ene...

Die Union schaukelt gerade Rassismusvorwürfe gegen Bundeskanzler Scholz hoch, die in einem vertraulichen Gespräch geäußert worden sein sollen, was aufgrund mangelnder Öffentlichkeit niemand verifizieren kann und auch der angeblich Betroffene Joe Chialo bestätigt es nicht im Wortlaut. Das ist wild.

Im Kampf um die Deutungshoheit im Europäischen Parlament hat die Sozialdemokratie scheinbar endlich eine Erzählung gefunden, die über Gejammere hinausgeht: die neue Rechtskoalition als Gift für die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit (in der Hoffnung, dass alle brav die USA beobachten)

Long story short: eat more tofu (& roll out GMOs) so BECCS has more space www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Consider that if we stopped using crop-based biofuels for road transport and instead put them to work in planes, we could decarbonise 25% of aviation by tomorrow. Chart from Shell's 2025 Energy Security Scenarios.