Energy and Governance Group: Workshop 3
Our third Energy and Governance workshop was held on Friday 20th March 2015, and was entitled 'Deconstructing the European Energy Union: the Role of Governance and the 2030 Goals'. This event was generously funded and hosted by CCCU, the University of Exeter, and UKERC in collaboration with Chatham House.
Summary points
- The one-day workshop explored some of the fundamentals of the recently-announced European Energy Union1, its connection with established climate packages, and implications for energy governance.
- The proposed Energy Union package offers a variety of visions divided across five areas: energy security, an integrated internal energy market, energy efficiency, decarbonisation and research, innovation and competitiveness.
- Relying heavily on Member States solidarity (as per Art. 194 of the Lisbon Treaty), energy security proposals encompass project-based diversification, crisis management and emergency plans, and options for voluntary demand aggregation mechanisms for collective gas supply purchase in addition to closer integration of security of supply mechanisms with foreign policy tools.
- Energy market integration pushes ahead on completing wide-spread interconnector ‘hardware’ and legislative ‘software’, with TSO integration as a clear priority against a context of enhanced regional cooperation to keep energy prices affordable and competitive.
- Energy efficiency is aimed at demand side reduction (particularly in buildings and transport), focused on long-term decarbonisation goals via achievable 2020 and 2030 targets.
- EU Energy Governance remains an ambiguous concept, entailing multi-level authority designed to enhance EU impact within and beyond the EU, but
To find out more about this event,, please download our briefing paper.
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