The risk of energy cuts are “improbable” in the colder months, according to French electricity and gas grid operators who nevertheless urge extra efforts on demand reduction to avoid the risk of...
Greenpeace takes legal action over EU’s ‘green’ label for gas and nuclear
Greenpeace and other environmental campaigners have launched legal challenges against the European Commission over its decision to include natural gas and nuclear energy in the EU's list of "green"...
EXCLUSIVE: France urges Brussels to label nuclear-produced hydrogen ‘green’
French Energy Minister Agnès Pannier-Runacher is trying to get EU Energy Commissioner Kadri Simson to include nuclear among energy sources for the production of so-called “green” hydrogen, according...
Constellation to help Dutch Rolls-Royce SMR deployment
Dutch nuclear energy development company ULC-Energy BV has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with US utility Constellation to support the deployment of a fleet of Rolls-Royce small modular...
Fermi Energia requests bids from three SMR vendors
Estonia's Fermi Energia has said it will accept tenders from three small modular reactor (SMR) developers: GE Hitachi, NuScale and Rolls-Royce. The company said bids with comprehensive technical...
EU proposes windfall levies on energy firms to ease price pain
The European Union's executive plans to raise more than 140 billion euros ($140 billion) to shield consumers from soaring energy prices by skimming off revenues from low-cost electricity generators...
French deputy: ‘We have been suffering from the German electricity strategy for years’
EURACTIV France spoke to right-wing deputy Raphaël Schellenberger about his vision of “European energy solidarity”, which he conditions on the sovereignty of states to decide their own energy mix...
EU Weighs Price Cap on Power From Renewables, Nuclear
The European Union is zeroing in on a plan to cap energy companies’ profits and channel the cash to consumers, as it steps closer to energy rationing in a bid to tame the crisis.