2008 WILL BE CRUNCH YEAR FOR TURNING EU ENERGY POLICY A DEEPER SHADE OF GREEN
January 1st, 2008
BY ALAN OSBORN
THE NEXT twelve months - say to Easter 2009 - could prove of fundamental significance for the development of European Union (EU) energy policy on several fronts. In January this year, the European Commission published its long-awaited proposals on renewable energies and CO2 saving, and history may well judge this to be the moment when the EU turned decisively green. Where electricity is concerned, the main action in the remainder of 2008 will be over the proposed amending directive 2003/54/EC concerning common rules for the internal market in ...
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