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The European Commission has proposed the inclusion of “an emergency brake” in the new emissions trading system (ETS) for road transport and buildings to ensure a gradual increase in carbon prices,

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Carbon pricing is set to underpin many of the European Commission’s proposed policy reforms due on Wednesday intended to help the EU cut its emissions by at least 55% from 1990 levels by 2030.

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The European Commission wants to stimulate the use of electric cars by tightening CO2 standards for new cars and including transport in the ETS, commission vice-president Frans Timmermans told the

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The European Investment Bank (EIB) will assess potential projects, particularly those in the road transport sector, by using a carbon shadow price of EUR 250/t for 2030, said a bank official.

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The European Commission will propose a credit system for tracking renewable power used by vehicles in its revised EU renewable energy directive planned for July as part of efforts to promote power use

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Europe’s power grids would not be able to cope with large-scale peak charging of electric vehicles (EV), participants at the Eurelectric Power Summit said on Wednesday.

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The European Commission wants to set up a very small-scale complementary ETS for road transport to start with to bring carbon pricing to the sector, said its president Ursula von der Leyen on Tuesday.

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EU carbon prices in a parallel road transport and buildings ETS could reach EUR 180/t by 2030 and influence prices in the bloc’s main cap-and-trade scheme, according to a Cambridge Econometrics

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Swedish battery manufacturer Northvolt expects to operate three large battery factories in Europe by 2030 due to soaring demand from the car industry, it said on Wednesday.

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The Romanian oil and gas group OMV Petrom said it plans to install at least 40 fast and ultra-fast recharging stations for electric vehicles in Romania by the end of 2022.

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Electromobility is an inevitably, rapidly growing global trend. By slightly suppressing it, the Covid-19 pandemic has only made the surge of development a little more manageable, said the CEO of

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Luka Koper, the company that manages the Slovenian port of Koper, has told Energetika.NET that it plans to install at least 4 MW of solar capacity by 2030.