18th Gas Forum focuses on winter preparedness
The 18th Gas Forum of the Energy Community took place in Vienna yesterday, addressing key gas supply security measures. Participants discussed diversification approaches, joint gas purchases, and the significance of Ukraine's storage system in bolstering Europe's energy security.
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Published 5 July 2023
Author Energy Community Secretariat
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The 2022 Energy Community Ministerial Council adopted 2030 energy and climate targets to reduce primary and final energy consumption, accelerate the uptake of renewables and reduce greenhouse gas emissions to achieve climate neutrality by 2050. The Ministers agreed to national renewables targets that amount to an overall Energy Community target of 31.0% of energy from renewable sources in gross final energy consumption by 2030. To boost energy efficiency and energy savings, they agreed to cap the amount of primary energy consumption at 129.88 Mtoe and the amount of final energy consumption at 79.06 Mtoe at the level of the Energy Community. They also agreed to cap the total greenhouse gas emissions for the Energy Community at 427.64 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent by 2030, which represents a decrease of 60.9% below 1990 levels.
A year earlier, the ministers adopted five key legislative acts stemming from the EU’s Clean energy for all Europeans package. The acts were further adapted with the 2022 decisions.
Read moreIn order to be considered “just” and “inclusive”, energy transition processes need to ensure fairness via equal distribution, full recognition of rights and labour contributions, equal participation in decision-making procedures, and equal capabilities in renewable energy outcomes. This is why it is crucial to conceive a “just energy transition” NOT as a fixed set of rules, but rather as a vision, a process based on dialogue and an agenda for a participatory framework that prioritizes the needs and concerns of local residents, particularly vulnerable stakeholders.
The Energy Community Secretariat manages four interlinked projects, which together represent the key dimensions of the Just Transition Initiative.
Read moreThe EU4Energy Programme Phase II was launched by the European Union, as part of its Regional Action Programme – East. The action builds on the work of the EU4Energy Programme Phase I and the lessons learnt from it.
The new phase spans between 2021 and 2026. The objective of EU4Energy Project Phase II is to foster the clean energy transition and decarbonisation in Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine and to contribute to the post 2020 Eastern Partnership architecture. These countries have already signed Association Agreements, including a Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area (DCFTA), with the EU in the energy sector and they have a status of Contracting Parties within the scope of the Energy Community Treaty. The action will provide support through evidence-based energy policy design and through a transposition and implementation of the Energy Community acquis / DCFTA / EU best practice legal framework.
Read moreThe Secretariat’s Dispute Resolution and Negotiation Centre provides high-quality services in negotiation and mediation of investor-state disputes and offers negotiation support to national authorities in their negotiations with private parties. The Centre also facilitates the swift closure of dispute settlement cases under the Energy Community Treaty via tailor-made negotiation and mediation facilities.
A group of experienced negotiators covering a wide-range of expertise supports the work of the Centre.
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Ukraine
on 28 July 2023
Verkhovna Rada adopts a law on long-awaited corporate governance reform of the transmission system operator for gas, GTSOU.
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Serbia
on 26 July 2023
Serbian intraday market successfully launched by SEEPEX, the Nominated Electricity Market Operator (NEMO) in Serbia.
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Montenegro
on 24 July 2023
Montenegro submits the Secretariat its fifth Progress Report under Renewable Energy Directive 2009/28/EC for the period 2020 - 2021.
Georgia
on 21 July 2023
Georgia submitted the Secretariat its Draft NECP.
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Moldova
on 11 July 2023
ANRE issued a final decision certifying the electricity transmission system operator (TSO) Moldelectrica as an Independent System Operator.
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Kosovo*
on 10 July 2023
Kosovo* submitted the Secretariat its Draft NECP.
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Bosnia and Herzegovina
on 30 June 2023
Bosnia and Herzegovina submitted the Secretariat its draft NECP.
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Serbia
on 29 June 2023
Serbia submitted the Secretariat its Draft NECP.
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Albania
on 6 June 2023
The issuing bodies in Albania successfully inaugurates an electronic registry for guarantees of origin for electricity.
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