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EU Climate and energy framework

2030 targets, Energy Efficiency, European Green Deal

EGEC response to the call for feedback on Data centres in Europe – reporting scheme

PUBLISHED: December 21, 2023

On 20 December, EGEC commented on the Commission draft Delegated Act that sets out a reporting scheme to rate the sustainability of data centres in the EU. The Delegated Act stems from the recast Energy Efficiency Directive (Directive 2012/27/EU), which introduces a requirement to report on the energy performance and sustainability of data centres. 

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Energy Transition, EU Climate and energy framework

EGEC response to the call for evidence on the 2040 Climate Target Impact Assessment

PUBLISHED: July 3, 2023

EGEC welcomes the call for evidence on the 2040 climate targets as it provides regulatory certainty for the geothermal sector to adjust to climate neutrality as well as ensuring the need for effective regulatory support to replace fossil fuel consumption in buildings, transport, agriculture and electricity generation.

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EU Climate and energy framework

New regulatory framework to accelerate the deployment of geothermal

PUBLISHED: December 19, 2022

“Renewable go-to areas“ to be included in the RES Directive revision

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EU Climate and energy framework, EU State Aid Control

European Green Deal, State Aid

State aid support for geothermal

PUBLISHED: December 8, 2022

The Commission is consulting Member States on proposal for a Temporary Crisis and Transition Framework with a reform of the State Aid rules. Here are the proposals for geothermal.

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Energy Transition, Environmental legislation, EU Climate and energy framework

European Green Deal

EGEC views on the EU Critical Raw Materials Act

PUBLISHED: November 24, 2022

EGEC views on the EU Critical Raw Materials Act   EGEC, the voice of the European geothermal industry, is a not-for-profit association representing the entire value-chain of the industry across 28 countries. It is included on the European Transparency Register number: 11458103335-07. Further information can be found at www.egec.org.

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EU Climate and energy framework, Financing

Sustainable finance

EGEC Factsheet on Sustainable Finance and Geothermal Energy

PUBLISHED: June 8, 2022

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Environmental legislation, EU Climate and energy framework

Energy price crisis, Licensing and EIA, Renewable Energy Directive

EGEC Contribution to the Public consultation on permitting for renewable energy projects and power purchasing agreements

PUBLISHED: April 12, 2022

In a bid to accelerate renewable energy deployment, the European Commission is looking at means to accelerate permitting processes.

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EU Climate and energy framework

Energy price crisis, Geothermal electricity, Internal market for heat

GEOSMART Factsheet: geothermal and the energy price crisis

PUBLISHED: April 8, 2022

At the beginning of summer 2021, gas prices started increasing tremendously globally due to a wide array of factors, from an exceptionally cold winter in Europe in 2020, to macroeconomic fallouts of the COVID 19 pandemic, without mentioning geopolitics, to technical issues in infrastructure bottlenecks of the fossil fuel production infrastructure.

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EU Climate and energy framework

Energy price crisis, Recovery Plans

Call for an EU geothermal strategy

PUBLISHED: March 17, 2022

The geothermal sector needs you. It is vital to get the European Commission's regulatory, financial and political support behind the geothermal sector. This will allow it to identify and rectify regulatory and fiscal roadblocks to mass deployment of geothermal energy including sustainable mineral extraction.

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Energy Transition, EU Climate and energy framework

Energy Efficiency, Energy price crisis

EGEC Action Plan: Eight point plan to REpowerEU with Geothermal

PUBLISHED: March 14, 2022

EGEC has published an action Plan for implementing geothermal in Europe and as a support for the European Institutions to implement the REpowerEU and face the energy crises. Eight actions to allow geothermal to REpowerEU. Geothermal heating, cooling and power has already saved 10 bcm of gas and other fossil energy imports from Russia.

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