Sustainable Energy Law Notebook

The European Commission put forward on 11 October 2011 a proposal for a regulation on Guidelines for trans-European energy infrastructure (COM(2011)658). The regulation is part of the EU Energy Infrastructure Package which is financially supported by the Connecting Europe Facility (CPE) . Yesterday, on 12 March 2013 , the European Parliament adopted   in first reading in plenary session , which opens for final adoption of the text after approval by the Council.  The regulation aims to ensure the " timely development and interoperability of priority corridors and areas of trans-European energy infrastructure " .  - It establishes criteria for identification the priority corridors and areas which are further defined in Annex I to the Regulation. The categories covered include infrastructures related to electricity, oil, gas and carbon dioxide . The concept of "infrastructure" is defined broadly, but has been refined through negotiations.  -...

The European Commission services , DG Climate Action , announced on 4 March 2013 that it will launch a second call for proposals under the so-called NER300 programme on 3 April 2013 , with a deadline for application on 3 July (approximately). NER300 aims to provide financial support to commercial demonstration CCS projects as well as demonstration projects of innovative renewable technologies . Under the first bidding round , no successful offer had been selected by lack of compliance with the selection criteria. This news will be updated shortly.