Are European energy taxes in line with environmental objectives?
Although not collected by the EU but by each of the countries, taxes on energy at the European level exist, and they are implemented in the form of indirect taxes, also called excise duties. The EU sets harmonised minimum rates of excise duty for all energy products used for heating,
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Each month, one of our experts publishes an article describing his view on a specific topic of the constant changes taking place in the energy market, with special focus on the French market.
Gas interruptibility: the end of a long saga?
December 2019 saw the publication of an impressive number of texts regarding the natural gas sector regulation in France… After the Energy Regulatory Commission
The verdict is in on the capacity mechanism! Capacity mechanism: things always come in threes
Things always come in threes. TWO thousand €/MW is the standard deviation typically observed between the different auction prices for the 2020 supply year,
Greener than green!
Less white than white, we (and comedian Coluche) suspect, must be light grey. We know what the colour green is…it’s green! But greener than
Hercule: labours postponed until the Greek calends
At the beginning of October, Jean Bernard Levy, the Chairman of EDF, explained in a letter to his employees that the introduction of the
PPAs for all!
For some time now, the world of energy has been watching the emergence of a new reference acronym: ‘PPA’. These three letters, often complemented
The French capacity mechanism still has a few tricks up its sleeve!
It’s becoming a habit; every HES Newsletter includes an article about the French capacity mechanism. At this rate, we’ll end up making it a
The ARENH and TRVs are trying to fit (into) the new Energy and Climate law
In the beginning, it was only meant to be a bill for correcting a minor issue – practically a typo or oversight on the
2018, a record year for gas
In a report made public on Friday 7 June (Gas 2019), the International Energy Agency (IEA) states that the demand for natural gas grew
Energy: extinction of the dinosaurs… Petroleum Rex versus Nukeonosaurus?
The process was triggered on a large scale in the months following the Fukushima accident, with the German decision to decommission nuclear power plants.
