With days growing hotter, air conditioning is playing an ever-growing role in how people cope with the heat. In EU households, energy consumption for cooling has steadily increased, reaching 80.4 thousand terajoules (TJ) in 2024.
The EU Council has adopted a directive amending the requirements for measuring instruments sold and placed on the single market, setting common standards for electric chargers and gas dispensers.
12 EU countries with nuclear electricity production generated 649 524 gigawatt hours (GWh) of electricity in 2024, an increase of 4.8% compared with 2023, according to Eurostat.
The European Commission is allocating nearly EUR 650m to help finance 14 cross-border energy infrastructure projects intended to strengthen the EU’s energy security and increase the integration of renewable energy.
EU member states have formally adopted a regulation to phase out Russian imports of both pipeline gas and liquified natural gas (LNG) into the European Union.
Following relentless Russian strikes on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, the EU is deploying 447 emergency generators worth €3.7 million from EU strategic reserves to restore power to hospitals, shelters and critical services.
The European Union starts applying a new automatic and dynamic mechanism for price adaptation of the Oil Price Cap for Russian crude for the first time from 15 January.
