EUGINE News

This publication sheds light on our activities in 2024 and provides an outlook into 2025. It is an exclusive publication for our members.

In 2024, EUGINE celebrates its 10th year of existence. Created in 2014 under the motto “flexible energy” to raise awareness on the advantages of engine power plants, our association has since then evolved to a recognised partner in the EU energy policy circles. On the 4th of December we organised a high-level event to analyse […]

Reforming Electricity Markets – What for? The European Commission work programme for 2023, published last month, announced a reform of the EU electricity market in early 2023, with a focus on decoupling gas and electricity prices for consumers. Decoupling wholesale spot markets and retail markets could help protect consumers from strong price variations — but […]

Only three years ago, the new Regulation on electricity markets entered into force. Some of its provisions have not been fully implemented yet and, despite this, the topic of electricity market design is already back on the agenda. While the current exceptional circumstances might require exceptional measures, a quick redesign of some markets will however […]

REPowerEU: The Contribution of the European Power Plant Industry How does Europe become independent from Russian gas? REPowerEU is outlining the direction: by massively growing the capacities of renewables, by reducing our energy consumption and by replacing fossil gas with hydrogen, biogas and, as an interim step, gas from other regions. We published a short […]

With the publication of the EU’s “hydrogen strategy for a climate-neutral Europe” in July 2020, hydrogen was recognised as key priority in Europe’s ambitions to become climate neutral by 2050. As from 2025, hydrogen should become an intrinsic part of an integrated energy system, playing a role in balancing a renewables-based electricity system and thus […]

ENZA, the European Net Zero Alliance, brings together 17 European associations in the energy, industry, buildings, mobility, forestry, and agriculture sectors. ENZA aims to bridge the gap between energy vectors and energy-consuming sectors to reach 2050 climate neutrality. It was successfully launched on the 30 March with an online event attended by 150 participants. As a founding […]