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senior fellow - energy & climate policy - @bruegel_org Scientific Lead - GreenDealUkraїna - @HZBde
We updated our assessment of the debt situation in the Ukrainian energy sector (now also partially cover heat and gas):
greendealukraina.org/products/ana...
Für Haushaltskunden scheint sich in den letzten Jahren die regionale Preisverteilung deutlich verschoben zu haben:
- 2018 - teure Diagonale von Brandenburg nach BaWü
- 2025 teures Thüringen
Die alte BRD/DDR-Grenze ist aber nicht sichtbar.
The introduction of Locational Price Signals in the European power market could lead to system savings of € 26-61 bn EACH YEAR by 2040.
New JRC study: publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/h...
So to balance the system, Ukraine would have to:
- repair production capacities faster,
- and/or reduce gas consumption (which will depend on weather, but also on gas-fired electricity production),
- and/or increase gas imports.
Below the weekly gas flows into Ukraine:
European Gas Market update Week 41 @bruegel.org:
-increasing record seasonal LNG imports levels
www.bruegel.org/dataset/euro...
PyPSA v1.0 is officially here - 10 years and 2 days since the first git commit. This milestone release brings major new features, completely new documentation, and a fresh landing page - congratulations to all the PyPSA team! 🎉
🔗 New Documentation: docs.pypsa.org
🔗 New Landing Page: pypsa.org
Ukraine’s gas system has experienced a series of major attacks over the past week. According to Bloomberg, 60% of gas production capacities were disabled.
If the situation with ~50% lower production continues in Oct-Dec25 (at last year's consumt&import), gas storage would be depleted by March 2026.
Today in Kyiv: National University Kyiv Mohyla Academy and GreenDealUkraina jointly unveiling their plans to create a joint Energy and Climate Lab.
14.10.2025 07:04 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
As LLMs "learnt " that in East-Germany statistics/assessments are often worse than in the West, they automatically assume this to be the case in other areas, amplifying negative stereotypes.
Case in point, many models claim that body temperature is lower in the East.
www.heise.de/news/Forschu...
Comparing apples (EU HH-electricity prices incl taxes +35%) and oranges (US electricity CPI +38%) - but a good reminder that the data you pick can allow for drastically different narratives.
07.10.2025 09:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
NEW: GLOBAL RENEWABLES OVERTAKES COAL
How the heck did that happen so quickly?!...🧵
Electricity prices are up 38% over the last five years, and are re-accelerating this year
A trade regime that tariffs the wires, transformers, batteries, & other capital goods necessary to meet growing electricity demand is just going to exacerbate our power cost problem
Italy has led in prime minister turnover for most of the past three decades. At the moment it’s tied with both on their 18th new PM since 1990 - but soon France is about to take the lead, the first time since 2000.
ChatGPT figure based on Wikipedia (let me know if you spot some hallucinations)
NATO Resources Office has just allocated Zt60mn for planning and design of extending the Central Europe Pipeline System for fuels to Poland - the 300 km link should cost $5.5 billion acc. to Reuters:
www.reuters.com/business/ene...
I saw little discussion on this in Germany.
GDU Figure of the Week
After 2022 Ukraine often relied on electricity imports.
But this summer, Ukraine, once again became a structural exporter. And last month, Ukraine's exports even exceeded pre-invasion levels.
www.linkedin.com/posts/green-...
thx to R.Stubbe
EU annual coal imports are about 10x larger than the aggregate of the key critical raw materials tabled by Eurostat (on this nice page: ec.europa.eu/eurostat/sta...)
29.09.2025 14:06 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
EU oil and oil product imports from Russia.
- Direct imports from Russia dropped drastically (now 2% of crude oil and oil products)
- Imports from TUR/IND/CHN represented 1.8% in 2021 and reached a peak of 4.4% in 2024, to fall to 3.5% in the first seven month of 2025.
...
... As TUR, IND and CHN sell virtually no crude oil to the EU, their increase in exports to the EU comes from oil products.
While CHN and IND oil products exports peaked in 2023, those from TUR reached a new peak in 2025 (7%).
EU oil and oil product imports from Russia.
- Direct imports from Russia dropped drastically (now 2% of crude oil and oil products)
- Imports from TUR/IND/CHN represented 1.8% in 2021 and reached a peak of 4.4% in 2024, to fall to 3.5% in the first seven month of 2025.
...
Just Published: The discussion on international flexibilities in EU climate targets is picking up. This strawman proposal should help to identify options and weak points when trying to design a robust architecture.
degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Aujourd’hui dans Le Monde, mon commentaire sur l’Europe et le défi de la compétitivité.
www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...
Bruegel Gas Tracker Update
by @keliauskaite.bsky.social
- record seasonal LNG import
- storage level still below 2022/2023/2024 values in mid-September
www.bruegel.org/dataset/euro...
... and you did not see the cool ones from deep in the bowels of BESSY II
24.09.2025 20:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The interconnected EU electricity system is a breeding ground for acronyms and overlapping regional institutions
23.09.2025 20:40 — 👍 23 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1
JOB POSTING 💼 As we keep expanding our work on energy, climate and clean tech, we at Bruegel - Improving economic policy are now searching for a climate economist to complement our team. Please share/apply! www.bruegel.org/careers/clim...
10.09.2025 09:27 — 👍 11 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0
NEW: ACER says TSOs significantly underestimated likely benefits of a German bidding zone split
www.euractiv.com/news/grid-op...
European gas imports @bruegel.org:
-weekly gas imports decreased driven by lower NO flows (maintenance);
-LNG volumes remain at the highest seasonal levels;
-LNG regas >90% in PL, NL and LT;
-Reverse gas flows to UA remain high;
-Gas storage: 81% in EU, 24% in UA.
www.bruegel.org/dataset/euro...
Elsevier has dismissed Richard Tol as editor of the highly successful "Energy Economics". His account of the alleged and the actual reasons casts an even darker shadow over the academic publishing business.
15.09.2025 15:35 — 👍 28 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 3
Germany stands head-and-shoulders above the rest of Europe when it comes to electric vehicle exports.
In 2024, German EV exports were over €50 billion.
Followed by
🇧🇪 Belgium at €14 billion
🇪🇸 Spain at €7 billion
🇸🇪 Sweden at €6 billion
european-clean-tech-tracker.bruegel.org/geography
Figure shows very different sectoral hydrogen demands in 2045 in Germany, according to different studies.
Assessment of German electricity demand was published today - arguably commissioned by the Ministry to justify reducing the speed of RES/grid invest. It's a meta-study showing the wide range of existing projections.
www.bundeswirtschaftsministerium.de/Redaktion/DE...
h/t @mkreutzfeldt.bsky.social
