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Posts by Nikolaus J. Kurmayer

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Keep calm and carry on flying, Brussels says despite looming fuel shortage | Euractiv Fears of widespread cancellations are overblown, the EU's transport and tourism commissioner suggests

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EXCLUSIVE: Brussels to host Taliban in talks on Afghan deportations The controversial talks are likely to be held in a neutral venue, such as a hotel in the Belgian capital, rather than on EU premises

EXCLUSIVE: Brussels to host Taliban in talks on Afghan deportations

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Back to EV posting

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Brussels mayor denounces ‘terrorism’ after bombing rocks Saint-Gilles A wave of gang-related violence has swept through the neighbourhood this week

Brussels mayor denounces ‘terrorism’ after bombing rocks Saint-Gilles

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Brussels faces pushback over bid to fast-track grids package | Euractiv European Commission hoped to ‘exploit’ latest energy crisis to bolster its case for centralised electricity network planning

The first part of Ursula von der Leyen's energy crisis package (to be presented next week) is already dead on arrival: agreeing the grids package before the summer.

"Wishful thinking ... pure von der Leyen populism ... no chance," we heard from negotiators.

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Brussels pitches state subsidy bonanza to combat Iran war energy shock | Euractiv The draft EU plan “goes much further than the current state aid rules”, said one expert

LEAK: New crisis, same EU response

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Another energy crisis - another lack of unbiased, relevant, timely ENERGY DATA for policy-making:

What is possible: The US Energy Information Administration, provides among many other series granular weekly! oil&petroleum data for: refinery production, imports, exports, prices, stocks, ...
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Ability to pay per MWh of datacentres seems 50%ish higher than conventional energy intensives for now, so they'd feel it last, is my model rn

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"The world's most powerful horsegirl" -- overheard in the newsroom

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Would you ever have time to talk to me about the state of play on social cost of carbon research in the coming weeks?

The thesis being that the bifurcation in US view and EU view shapes global policy outcomes or something

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If the birds dont win the race for the Euro this is not my EU

I want to say "that'll cost you three kingfishers" to someone once in my life

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Ö1 Journale - gehört vertieft - Das Comeback der Atomenergie in Europa Gestaltung: Paul Schiefer, Bernhard OrtmayerDie Atomenergie in Europa könnte dieser Tage ein Comeback erleben. EU-Kommissionspräsidentin Ursula von der Leyen hat Anfang März in Paris dazu mit einer Au...

Da jetzt die dt. Wirtschaftsministerin ein Umdenken bei der Atomkraft fordert, würde ich gern auf mein längeres Gespräch im österreichischen Rundfunk letzte Woche hinweisen: sound.orf.at/podcast/oe1/...

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Europe’s energy illusion: Why a €1 trillion green bet hasn’t broken the import habit | Euractiv The war with Iran is exposing a hard truth – Europe’s green push has left it no less dependent on imported energy

Nikolaus’ drones strike
<EU is always as dependent on imported energy than long ago

Yes EU has cleaned its domestic generation of electricity

BUT…
Not electrified the rest of EU energy consumption:
Still 60% of our energy is imported >🙈

| @nkurmayer.bsky.social

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Good morning Europe, I wrote a thing about the absolute failure of reducing our long-standing energy import dependency via €1 trillion of renewables subsidies

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What %share?

I always went with 2/3 1/3 truism

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Follow the Danube !

Donauradweg 🤝

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Its Saturday and you have next to no lights on at night anyway

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That guy is me

(Do not visit the Warsaw zoo it's extremely bad)

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No joke, so far I see it -- anywhere I must go (in your estimation) before I leave?

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Guy who goes to different European cities so he can see the same Asian, African, Latin American animals in enclosures

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Spending a few days in Warsaw, does anybody know why brass elements are so commonplace?

Is this Eastern European Dubai?

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And thus, the year-long Iberian blackout saga comes to an end -- 17 root causes have been identified, Spain's Red Electrica claims it is not to blame (others, however, suggest otherwise)

Thus ends the story of the world's first-ever major voltage overload blackout

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Österreich und die Koalitionen der Verlierer Atomkraft, Aufrüstung, Mercosur, Emissionshandel: die Bundesregierung stellt sich in mehreren für Österreichs Wohlstand strategisch wichtigen Grundsatzfragen auf die Seite derer, die den Zug der...

Heute im #BrüsselBriefing @diepressecom.bsky.social, anlässlich des Europäischen Rates: Österreich schließt sich schon wieder einer Gruppe von Staaten an, die den Zug der Zeit zu verpassen drohen. diepresse.com/20689666

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NEW: How the EU is trying to get back into the Champions League of global climate negotiations by changing gameplan, financial structure and players!

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You've never come close to pushing yourself on a hike

To remotely go alpine is attempted suicide, lowkey, these alpine divorces are just a byproduct thereof.

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The EU's double malaise in this ACER slide

Lagging electricity consumption and random AI images in official powerpoints paid for by the bloc's taxpayers.

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One Battle After Another winning best picture, smh

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Did you upsize radiators?

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Ukraine's power supply situation continued to relax this week - but the next winter will come in only seven month.

GDU's weekly tracker: greendealukraina.org/gd-tracker/s... 1/2

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