NUCLEAR DISASTER REINFORCES TALKS ON EU-WIDE ENERGY GRID

BY MJ DESCHAMPS GERMANY's recent announcement that it will be phasing out all atomic plants in the country by 2022 following the Fukushima disaster has encouraged efforts to create a truly effective European Union (EU)-wide energy grid. A new, unreleased - but confirmed - 'non paper' (a discussion paper) from the European Commission has also made the case for strengthening electricity interconnections in the face of Germany's nuclear phase-out. EU ministers meeting at an informal meeting of the EU Council of Ministers for energy in Poland have also agreed to ...


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