Energy Union [What Think Tanks are thinking]

The European Commission launched a blueprint on 25 February 2015 for an Energy Union that would ensure the free flow of gas and electricity across the European Union, diversify energy supply and move the bloc towards a low carbon economy in what is hoped to be a major shake-up aimed to create growth, job and enhance security.

Presenting its Energy Union Strategy, one of ten priority projects of President Jean-Claude Juncker, the Commission said it wanted to improve energy infrastructure to better share supplies and integrate renewables, end regulated pricing, increase the number of liquefied natural gas terminals and enforce existing law on competition. Energy efficiency in buildings and transport, as well as smart grids, should help keep energy demand from outpacing supplies. Research and innovation should make Europe a world leader in clean energy technologies. EU heads of state and government are due to discuss the energy union at their meeting on 19-20 March 2015

This note offers links to a selection of recent commentaries, studies and reports, authored by some of the major international think tanks and research institutes, which discuss the prospects for, and ways to create, a single energy market within the European Union.

The At A Glance was written by Marcin Cesluk-Grajewski.

• Primary Source

ESO: Key source: Energy Union http://www.europeansources.info/record/energy-union/

EurActiv, 09.03.15: Energy Union stutters on efficiency http://www.euractiv.com/sections/energy/energy-union-stutters-efficiency-312717

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