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Looking back at the history of natural gas in Europe, things seemed pretty easy in the past, according to Klaus Schaefer, CEO E.ON Global Commodities, who opened a debate at Gas Week 2013 entitled Investing to Make a Clean Future Real. He began, "Natural gas has been championed, and rightly so, as a...
In a panel entitled "Leadership Perspectives" at the European Gas Conference in Vienna, Austria, Gasunie CEO Paul van Gelder said he had a nice story to tell after having cheered himself up from hearing some of the European natural gas industry's uncertainties. Regarding the various scenarios regarding...
In his talk at the European Gas Conference in Vienna, Austria, Philip Lowe, Director-General for Energy, European Commission, said because energy sources of power and heat were relatively limited by single sources of supply in Europe, there had been an ongoing goal to create an ongoing, competitive...
Polish state gas company PGNiG says it has signed a letter of intent with power group Tauron for a long-planned 400 MW gas-fired power block. The block will be situated at Tauron's Lagisza power facility near Bedzin in the south of Poland. The Lagisza block will be the second joint project by PGNiG...
Gazprom has today signed a cooperation agreement with French electricity company EDF to jointly build and acquire gas-fired power plants in Europe. As part of this agreement, Gazprom will be the exclusive gas supplier to all joint-owned gas-fired power plants, both those newly constructed by the two...
Countering the balancing problems of the grids, caused by the irregular electricity production from wind, E.On is constructing a pilot plant in Falkenhagen, near the eastern border of Germany. This plant will store wind energy as hydrogen gas, which can by mixed with natural gas in the gas grid. The...
“We have a lot of gas around, it’s relatively cheap, so it would seem like a happy time for gas fired power generation,” said Dan Harris, Principal at The Brattle Group, who spoke at the Unconventional Gas & Oil Summit in Warsaw, Poland. But according to Mr. Harris, that was not...
