Commission Clears GE’s Acquisition Of Alstom’s Power Generation And Transmission Assets

Following an in-depth review, the Commission has approved the acquisition of Alstom’s energy businesses by General Electric subject to divestment of central parts of Alstom’s heavy duty gas turbines business to Ansaldo.

Call For Papers: 8th International Gas Turbine Conference

The Call for Papers for the 8th IGTC-2016 has been published. The deadline to submit abstracts is 13 November 2015.

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Total Confirms Its Withdrawal From Coal Production And Marketing

Total no longer produces coal with the closing of the sale of mine operator Total Coal South Africa. Signed in summer 2014, the agreement to sell the affiliate to a local company has now been approved by the South African government, with the divestment taking effect on August 20.

EU Emission Trading System (ETS)

n July 2015, the European Commission presented a legislative proposal to revise the EU ETS for the period after 2020.

New Report On CCS

On 16 June, the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment launched their report in an event in Brussels: “Bridging the gap: improving the economic and policy framework for CCS in the European Union”. The report clearly states that the EU requires stronger policies to incentivise CCS such as having mandatory targets on CCS or introducing tailored incentives to support the intake of industrial CCS. It also calls for a more ambitious and coordinated actions as only a small number of Member States have introduced policies to support CCS.

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EU ETS: ENVI Committee Voted On The Market Stability Reserve

EU Emission Trading System (ETS) ““ Market Stability reserve: On 6 May, Member States and European Parliament (EP) agreed to bring forward the start date of a Market Stability Reserve to 1 January 2019 and this agreement was also backed by the Environment Committee on 26 May. The proposed law would create a system that automatically takes a portion of ETS allowances off the market and into the reserve if the surplus exceeds a certain threshold. In the opposite scenario, allowances could be returned to the market. The surplus of emission allowances, which has been building up in the system since 2009, is estimated at over 2 billion.

Large Combustion Plant BREF Review

On 22 April, an ETN IED Committee member attended a webinar organised by the LCP BREF Review Team which aimed to provide further information/clarifications to the TWG on the preparation of the background paper (BP) and to revised BAT conclusions and next steps. The BP and the revised proposals for the BAT conclusions discussed during this webinar will be the basis for the discussions at the final meeting, set to take place from 1-9 June 2015 in Seville, Spain. An ETN IED Committee member will attend the meeting in June and will report back to ETN members.