JOB POSTING 💼 As we keep expanding our work on energy, climate and clean tech, we at Bruegel - Improving economic policy are now searching for a climate economist to complement our team. Please share/apply! www.bruegel.org/careers/clim...

NEW: ACER says TSOs significantly underestimated likely benefits of a German bidding zone split www.euractiv.com/news/grid-op...

European gas imports @bruegel.org: -weekly gas imports decreased driven by lower NO flows (maintenance); -LNG volumes remain at the highest seasonal levels; -LNG regas >90% in PL, NL and LT; -Reverse gas flows to UA remain high; -Gas storage: 81% in EU, 24% in UA. www.bruegel.org/dataset/euro...

Elsevier has dismissed Richard Tol as editor of the highly successful "Energy Economics". His account of the alleged and the actual reasons casts an even darker shadow over the academic publishing business.

Germany stands head-and-shoulders above the rest of Europe when it comes to electric vehicle exports. In 2024, German EV exports were over €50 billion. Followed by 🇧🇪 Belgium at €14 billion 🇪🇸 Spain at €7 billion 🇸🇪 Sweden at €6 billion european-clean-tech-tracker.bruegel.org/geography

Assessment of German electricity demand was published today - arguably commissioned by the Ministry to justify reducing the speed of RES/grid invest. It's a meta-study showing the wide range of existing projections. www.bundeswirtschaftsministerium.de/Redaktion/DE... h/t @mkreutzfeldt.bsky.social

The Bruegel natural gas imports tracker is back from its summer break - just as relaxed as the market itself.

After a suspected arson-attack on two distribution-grid pylons in Southeast Berlin this morning, ~43000 households were/are without electricity, including our GreenDealUkraina offices. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Italy has led in prime minister turnover for most of the past three decades. At the moment it’s tied with both on their 18th new PM since 1990 - but soon France is about to take the lead, the first time since 2000. ChatGPT figure based on Wikipedia (let me know if you spot some hallucinations)

According to Eurostat*, the EU imports energy products worth around €30 billion per month → approximately €360 billion per year. Over three years, the planned $750 billion in energy imports from the US would therefore amount to about 60% of €1,080 billion. 1/5

Heute ist die Plan B Studie zur Energiewende von Frontier für @dihk.bsky.social erschienen. Die @faznet.bsky.social hatte schon vor einigen Tagen über die dortigen Aussagen zu Netzkosten berichtet. www.faz.net/aktuell/wirt... Hier noch meine Gedanken dazu

Today - at the 20th anniversary Annual Meeting of Bruegel - my colleagues launch the European Clean Tech Tracker. It provides an overview of the development of key clean tech sectors in the member states. Take the time to explore a bit! european-clean-tech-tracker.bruegel.org/geography

So far, the market is sceptical that the Power of Siberia 2 announcement is good news for Gazprom.

⚡ Bruegel Annual Meetings | Developing an EU electricity union for competitiveness and security 📅 3 September | 17:00-18:00 CET 🗣️ @gzachmann.bsky.social, Elena Giannakopoulou (PPC Group), Monika Morawiecka @regassistproj.bsky.social, Anna Stürgkh @europarl.europa.eu 🔗 buff.ly/sMtqB2e

Today's FR-DE Econ Agenda incl 3 points on electricity I found noteworthy: 1-FR-DE-PL study on network development 2-Vague language on moving from RES-target to clean-electricity target (possibly accommodate nuclear H2) 3-Work together on capacity mechanisms www.bundesregierung.de/resource/blo...

Merz & Macron just finished press conference for the Franco-German council of ministers. Good vibes between the two, but nothing new on EU energy policy. On EU funds for French nuclear plants, Merz admitted that DE position is unclear - CDU/CSU open; SPD sceptical. www.youtube.com/watch?v=O61u...

⚡ Bruegel Annual Meetings | Developing an EU electricity union for competitiveness and security 📅 3 September | 17:00-18:00 CET 🗣️ @gzachmann.bsky.social, Elena Giannakopoulou (PPC Group), Monika Morawiecka @regassistproj.bsky.social, Anna Stürgkh @europarl.europa.eu 🔗 buff.ly/sMtqB2e

I see this as a brutal message aimed at deterring supporters from coming to Kyiv.

During the first half of 2025 Russian electricity production (that was increasing since the start of the full-scale war against Ukraine) fell by more than 2% below the production in the first half of 2024.

I liked how @rebeccawire.bsky.social had @jasonfurman.bsky.social & @jzettelmeyer.bsky.social zoom out of the day-to-day noise & provide their bigger picture (Jeromin: DE&FR need to push econ reform, as the EC failed; Jason: US trade deal might ultimately benefit EU): audioboom.com/posts/876860...

The arrival of generic semaglutide from 2025 is a huge opportunity for global public health. In a piece co-written with @petersinger.bsky.social, we explain further. open.substack.com/pub/overmatt...

GDU Figure of the Week: More than 30% of Ukrainian households have district heating (EU:12%). This is driven by urban population centres, such as Kyiv (99%) and Donetsk (41%). Rural regions such as Zakarpattia show much less reliance on district heating. www.linkedin.com/posts/green-...

🚢 In July 2025, Russia exported 25.3 mn tonnes of oil by sea 💡 Over half of these oil exports were transported on G7+ tankers, a 2% percentage point drop compared to June ⚠️ ‘Shadow’ tanker use for crude oil fell from 83% in January to 58% in July

Our new GDU study on CBAM impact on Ukraine picked up by interfax Ukraine: en.interfax.com.ua/news/economi...

2000 years ago Hadrian showed that you can see a lot when travelling slowly. [absolutely fantastic maps by Simeon Netchev: www.worldhistory.org/image/14744/... ]

European gas imports @bruegel.bsky.social -weekly gas imports have slown down driven by LNG; -RU gas flows via Turkstream at highest seasonal level; -LNG regas: 96% in PL, 85% in HR; -Reverse gas flows to UA above seasonal levels; -Gas storage: 66% in EU, 15% in UA. www.bruegel.org/dataset/euro...

German foreign minister meets heads of NABU and SAPO in Kyiv.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s controversial move to take control of his country’s anti-corruption bodies poses a risk to European funding and Kyiv’s path to EU accession, top European officials have warned. Story w/ @paolatamma.bsky.social @henryjfoy.ft.com www.ft.com/content/ef23...

In der Ukraine drohen große Rückschritte bei Schlüsselreformen. Als wichtigster und verlässlichster Partner hat 🇩🇪 eine besondere Verantwortung hier auf höchster politischer Ebene gegenzusteuern. Rückschritte bei der Korruptionsbekämpfung haben direkte Auswirkungen auf den EU-Beitrittsprozess. Ein 🧵

EU's 18th package incl. relevant energy sanctions: -Price cap for oil from 60 to 47.6 USD/barrel -More sanctions on RU shadow-fleet -Import ban on oil-products made from RU'n crude in 3rd countries -Transaction ban on Nord Stream www.consilium.europa.eu/hr/press/pre... h/t @bmcwilliams.bsky.social

European Commission proposes to moderately increase budget and shift from backward-looking to forward-looking spending.

The Entso-E expert panel investigating the Iberian blackout shares important progress today. Within 20 seconds around 12.33 a loss of generation was observed in the regions of Granada (355 MW), Badajoz (720 MW) & Sevilla+ (1100 MW) - totalling some 2200 MW. www.entsoe.eu/publications...

The @eib.org Group’s strong presence in Brussels and close cooperation with EU institutions, industry, and civil society are key to advancing our shared priorities. Christian brings a wealth of experience, and I’m delighted to welcome him to the team!

Der Spiegel 30/1980 Japanese Cars - Europe Gets Run Over

#GDU Figure of the week: Ukrainian electricity wholesale prices - dropped by 10% from 2H2024 to 1H2025. - number of hours in which the price-caps (5600, 6900, 9000 UAH) were binding fell by half. - points to more relaxed supply-demand balance www.linkedin.com/posts/green-...

Yesterday, the European Commission published its electricity network tariff guidelines. A lot of sensible non-binding suggestions to govts and regulators. I was surprised, that the interaction of nat.l tariff design across borders was not discussed. energy.ec.europa.eu/publications...

🚨 JOB VACANCIES🚨 As @bruegel.bsky.social continues to expand its work on energy and climate, we are currently recruiting three new profiles: i) Data scientist; ii) Economist; iii) Programme officer. Please feel free to apply/share: www.bruegel.org/careers

Back-of-the-envelope: if Italy would double its solar capacity it could have reduced gas-fired generation by an average 3400 MW in every hour of the month - saving 5 TWh of gas, worth €176mn - only in June.

European gas imports @bruegel.bsky.social -Q2 2025 imports reached the highest quarterly level since Q3 2023, driven by record-high US imports -June LNG imports: America's volumes remain relatively high, Middle East hits record low, Russia at highest level in 4 months www.bruegel.org/dataset/euro...

🧵 @chflachsland.bsky.social and I posted the first draft of our Climate Politics Framework (CPF) paper—our attempt to provide a structured synthesis of the insights of modern social science into why ambitious climate mitigation is politically such a wicked problem, and under osf.io/preprints/so...

📣 CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Energy and climate Programme Officer ⚡ Bruegel is looking for a Programme Officer to support its energy and climate team. 🔗 Interested? Learn more here: buff.ly/JLWIZH2 ❗ Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

Germany (whose budget proposal ignores EU fiscal rules) gets approval from COM to subsidise its energy intensive industry. What will this do to its EU competitors that will see higher EU elec prices due to higher DE elec demand, more competition from DE and that have to comply with EU debt rules?

Germany deletes 500,000 corresponding emission certificates to ensure coal plant closure actually reduces emissions in Europe.

If you're interested in analyzing Russian federal budget spending, here's an interactive treemap you can use. Spending can be ordered by category, program or by ministry. The data is from Q1/2025. Direct links and explanation in my latest Substack: janiskluge.substack.com/p/visualizin...

In 2024 the Middle East was accounting for less than a quarter of global LNG supplies - almost 90% of which went to Asia. At the same time, only about 10% of the EU's LNG imports came from the Middle East. And LNG contributed less than 40% to EU gas supplies.

Also for crude oil and condensate, Europe carries little direct volume risk - as most of it goes to Asian markets.

And here the timely EIA data (and analysis) on oil trade volumes through the Strait of Hormuz - 20% of global oil consumption: www.eia.gov/todayinenerg...

In 2024 the Middle East was accounting for less than a quarter of global LNG supplies - almost 90% of which went to Asia. At the same time, only about 10% of the EU's LNG imports came from the Middle East. And LNG contributed less than 40% to EU gas supplies.

Escalating fight over future electricity mix in France Parliament votes a moratorium to new PV&wind (due to empty center-left benches) This challenges gov't plan to adopt new 2025-35 Roadmap: +increase RES share from 40% to 58% in 2030 +adding 27GW nuclear by 2050 www.lesechos.fr/industrie-se...