Subsidiarity and proportionality? Both doubtful if the regulation *forces* member states to prefer European producers in tenders.
04.03.2026 20:33 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Subsidiarity and proportionality? Both doubtful if the regulation *forces* member states to prefer European producers in tenders.
04.03.2026 20:33 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Battery manufacturing data by country are available here european-clean-tech-tracker.bruegel.org/s/v_tPgw and we plan to launch an interactive map view next week.
03.03.2026 11:15 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🇫🇷 The making of a French battery belt in the Hauts-de-France region
Taiwanese firm ProLogium has just broken ground on a €5.2 billion solid-state battery manufacturing facility in Dunkirk
Two European companies, Verkor and ACC, operate €1 bn and €850 mln facilities nearby with plans to expand
Six years of negotiations and within six weeks of implementation calls are out to dismantle CBAM, namely by removing fertilisers.
Agree with my colleagues that the Commission must resist this.
www.bruegel.org/first-glance...
nice graph!
25.02.2026 11:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Data available at :
european-clean-tech-tracker.bruegel.org/overview/dep...
🇮🇹 Last week, the Italian government announced their intent to reimburse the carbon cost paid by gas-fired power plants.
The motivation is clear - Italy has the largest gas share in power production across Europe.
The risk is that this prolongs that dependence and reduces renewables investment.
European gas demand has grown steadily throughout this winter, main reason being lower prices increasing the attractiveness of burning gas for power.
23.02.2026 11:05 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
All investments data available at european-clean-tech-tracker.bruegel.org/s/HJsVuQ
17.02.2026 15:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
European leaders are discussing how to encourage more investments into clean technology manufacturing facilities; and the rules that should be applied when such investments come from abroad.
🇭🇺 🇪🇸 Hungary and Spain today attract by far the most investment and have much at stake
At the European map view you can see this variable and many others across countries
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european-clean-tech-tracker.bruegel.org/geography/ov...
One million Europeans are employed in clean tech value chains. Including batteries, bioenergy, geothermal, hydro, heat pumps, solar and wind. Jobs are doubled compared with 2010.
The data are not available, but EV and nuclear jobs would push this even higher.
🏭 ‘Made with Europe’ not ‘Made in Europe’ should guide EU industrial policy
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🚨No 2025 heat pump rebound in France.
Very similar market to 2024. 🟰
After dropping 40% in 2024, sales of air-to-water heat pumps stayed roughly flat. The 2025 rebound seen in other countries, such as Germany, did not happen in Europe's (still?) leading heat pump market.
Dataset available here - www.bruegel.org/dataset/glob...
06.02.2026 10:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
If you wonder how US & global trade responds to Trump's tariffs ... my colleagues @zsoltdarvas.bsky.social and Marie-Sophie Lappe have the dataset for you @bruegel.org
Among many figures, I find striking that advanced economy trade as % of GDP is retreating back to COVID-19 levels
Looks like German manufacturing has turned the corner.
www.destatis.de/EN/Press/202...
European natural gas demand bounced back slightly in December 2025. Low prices and a drop in wind led to more gas burned for power. Slight growth in industrial demand too.
www.bruegel.org/dataset/euro...
a few markets were 'spike-ish', but yes fair point not really a spike at EU aggregate - nonetheless, Jan numbers will be revealing
03.02.2026 16:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Link to the interactive dataset here:
european-clean-tech-tracker.bruegel.org/s/U6FJNA
The close of 2025 brings yet another EV registration record: almost one-in-four new cars sold in the EU were fully electric in December.
End of year spikes are common as policies end and support schemes phase out. It will be interesting to see January data when available.
Nov & Dec growth was driven by incentivi statali which are now expired, so will be interesting to see how this looks going into the new year
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Regarding #Tesla: This is the development of Tesla's share in the German car market since 2023.
29.01.2026 14:39 — 👍 24 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0also ignores all other non-energy process emissions I suppose. But I found the author's arguments that we may need something beyond temperature targets to be convincing. Wonder if there is a way to combine the best of both?
29.01.2026 09:34 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
is there a good understanding of why German and French electricity prices have decoupled substantially since early 2024?
using the great @ember-energy.org prices dataset - ember-energy.org/data/europea...
Earlier this month, the EUs carbon border adjustment mechanism finally began full operations. With @rebeccawire.bsky.social and Ignacio Garcia Bercero @bruegel.org we discussed what that means.
When will companies start paying? Who will be hit the hardest?
www.bruegel.org/podcast/all-...
A proposal to replace the UNFCCC focus from 1.5 C target to measuring "clean energy shift" - the delta between clean energy growth and energy demand growth. Countries would set and report on hitting such targets.
28.01.2026 09:20 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Our @bruegel.org downloadable dataset updated through Nov25 👇
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@gzachmann.bsky.social
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🆕 EU natural gas demand bounced back slightly as TTF prices fell < €30 / MWh toward the end of 2025.
This repeats the pattern of winter 23/24.
After summer months of demand ≈ 20% down on pre-crisis 2019-21 AVG, winter months are ≈ 10% down