Publications

Recent publications

The European Battery Alliance: Ambitions and requirements

04 May 2018Aurélie Faure-Schuyer

A European alliance of battery manufacturers (European Battery Alliance) was launched in 2017. This contributes provides some insight into the Alliance’s strategy and the challenges it faces before publication of the review of the Clean Energy Package.

The Role of Business in the Circular Economy: Markets, Processes and Enabling Policies

28 March 2018Vasileios Rizos, Arno Behrens, Eleanor Drabik, David Rinaldi, Katja Tuokko

The circular economy is attracting significant interest worldwide, as evidenced by the numerous government strategies, business commitments and partnerships devoted to its development.

Should all producers of renewable energy automatically receive GOs?

13 March 2018Jaap Jansen

In this contribution, Jaap Jansen finds that the practice of automatically issuing guarantees of origin (GOs) to all producers of renewable energy undermines EU energy and climate objectives.

Stakeholders views on the Ecodesign Directive: An assessment of the successes and shortcomings

01 March 2018Christian Egenhofer, Eleanor Drabik, Monica Alessi, Vasileios Rizos

As part of the European Parliament's European Implementation Assessment of the Ecodesign Directive (2009/125/EC), Christian Egenhofer, Eleanor Drabik, Monica Alessi and Vasileios Rizos contributed a Briefing Paper entitled "Stakeholders views on the Ecodesign Directiv

Value Chains based on Mineral Raw Materials: Challenges for European Policy and Industry

28 February 2018Aurélie Faure-Schuyer, Christian Egenhofer, Milan Elkerbout

This report is meant to provide background and serve as a starting point for a series of stakeholder discussions on the future of the EU’s value chains based on mineral raw materials.

Suspended in legal limbo: Protecting investment in renewable energy in the EU

23 January 2018Monica Alessi, Jorge Núñez-Ferrer, Christian Egenhofer

This paper focuses on the damage – and the potential for inflicting further damage – to investor confidence arising from legal uncertainties surrounding renewable energy support in some EU member states.