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15 September 2016
Trans-European Energy Networks
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European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity
Created page with "'''European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity (entsoe)''' - aims at the integration of renewable energy sources and the completion of the internal energ..."
European Commission
Created page with "The European Commission is the EU's politically independent executive arm. It is alone responsible for drawing up proposals for new European legislation, and it implements the..."
Connecting Europe Facility
Created page with "'''Connecting Europe Facility (CEF)''' - is a funding programme that provides grants for “projects of common interest,” key infrastructure projects, which will help Member..."
Prosumer
Created page with "Prosumers are hybrid of producer and consumer, as the name suggests, acts in both ways. Interconnected households equipped with solar panels, can generate or transform energy..."
Powergrids
Created page with "'''Powergrids''' – are defined as the large-scale enabling technologies to transport energy from the producer to the consumer, as well as to direct and manage the energy flo..."
Supply transformation
Created page with "In the context of the 2030 goals, this describes the shift of traditional, fossil - fuelled supply such as coal or gas towards RES, including a transition from centralised, ol..."
Internal Energy Market
Created page with "An EU-wide integrated energy market with removed barriers, open competition, and common regulation. Its implementation is subject to discussion among Member States and, albeit..."
Transmission System Operator
Created page with "'''Transmission System Operator (TSO)''' – is an entity entrusted with transporting energy in the form of natural gas or electrical power on a national or regional level, us..."
Capacity market
Created page with "A market scheme rewarding power generators for their potential to produce output when needed (and not only pay for actually produced power) to give incentives for otherwise un..."
Not in my Backyard Response (NIMBY)
Created page with "'''Not In My Backyard Response (NIMBY)''' – characterizes local opposition in response to proposals for e.g. new energy grids built close to people’s homes, such as windmi..."
Strategic Power Reserve
Created page with "A “last reserve” of flexible, quick-to-boot power plants that ensure network stability in times of weak supply or demand peaks, caused by possible fluctuations in the rene..."
Security of supply
Created page with "The diversification of sources and suppliers and a transformation towards more internally produced energy in order to ensure the long-term availability of cheap and abundant e..."
Trans-European Energy Networks
Created page with "'''Trans-European Energy Networks (TEN-E)''' – are programmes by the EU set up for the implementation of the European Single Market. The Trans-European Networks aim at "link..."
Pumped Hydro Storage
Created page with "'''Pumped Hydro Storage (PHS)''' – is a technology that allows the storage of electricity by pumping water between two storage tanks or reservoirs at different elevations."
European Investment Bank (EBI)
Created page with "Not directly subordinated to the EC, but the senior actor on the matter of financing is the '''European Investment Bank''' (EIB). Its organisational structure does not permit..."
United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative
Created page with "'''The United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative''' (UNEP FI) was established as a platform associating the United Nations and the financial sector globally. UNE..."
Renewable Grid Initiative
Created page with "'''The Renewables Grid Initiative''' - a collaboration of NGOs and TSOs from across Europe. It aims to promote transparent, environmentally sensitive grid development to enabl..."
Responsible Research and Innovation
Created page with "'''Responsible Research and Innovation''' (RRI) is research and innovation that better aligns both the process and outcome of its practice with the values, needs and expectati..."
Project promoter
Created page with "A '''project promoter''' is an individual or company that helps raise money for some type of investment activity. Most often, promoters raise money for a company through offer..."
Low-carbon economy
Created page with "A '''low-carbon economy''' is an economy based on low carbon power sources that therefore has a minimal output of greenhouse gas emissions into the environment biosphere, but..."
European Atomic Energy Community
Created page with "The European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom) which was founded with the purpose of creating a specialist market for nuclear power in Europe, developing nuclear energy and di..."
Small and medium-sized Enterprizes (SME)
Created page with "Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), who account for 99% of the market, are represented through SME associations. SMEs are responsible for a substantial part of the energy con..."
Research Executive Agency (REA)
Created page with "'''The Research Executive Agency''' (REA) is a funding body created by the European Commission to maximise the efficiency and impact of EU research and innovation programmes...."
European Environment Agency
Created page with "'''The European Environment Agency (EEA)'''- an agency of the European Union, that aims to provide solid and independent information on the environment. Is is a major informa..."
Greenhouse gas emissions
Created page with "'''Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions''' – gases polluting the environment, such as CO2 and methane. Around 10% of the GHG emitted worldwide in 2012 came from the EU."
Renewable energy sources
Created page with "Renewable energy is derived from natural processes (e.g. sunlight and wind) that are replenished at a higher rate than they are consumed. Solar, wind, geothermal (heat from wi..."
Solar Power Europe
Created page with "Like EWEA, Solar Power Europe is the association of Solar Energy in Europe. The Association aims to shape the regulatory environment to promote the growing market opportunity..."
European Wind Energy Association
Created page with "As the greatest association in Wind Energy in Europe and the World, the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) is the voice of Wind Energy in Europe. It analyses, formulates..."
Eurelectric
Created page with "It is the union of the Electric Industry. It currently has over 30 full members operating in 32 countries that enable them to represent the common interest of the electric ind..."
National Governments
Created page with "'''National Governments''' have sovereignty on their energy policies and therefore have the role to design a national energy strategy."
Category:State actors
Created page with "Energy is a shared competence where both Member States and the EU can legislate. The EU with its institutions sets the central targets, launches initiatives on a European Leve..."
Micro generation
Created page with "The small-scale generation of heat and electric power by individuals, small businesses and communities to meet their own needs, as alternatives or supplements to traditional c..."
Demand response
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Demand response
Created page with "the intentional modification of normal consumption patterns by end-use customers in response to incentives from grid operators."
Distributed Generation
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Distributed Generation
Created page with "The approach that employs small-scale technologies to produce electricity close to the end users of power."
Permeability
Created page with "'''Permeability''' is definded as a property of a material which allows another substance to move through it without being chemically or physically affected."
Unconventional reservoirs
Created page with "reservoirs of low permeability which has to be mechanically stimulated in order to increase permeability and free gas for collection. Shale formations are a type of unconventi..."
Shale gas
Created page with "As '''Shale gas''' is commonly understood natural gas, primarily methane, trapped in shale formations."
Horizontal drilling
Created page with "'''Horizontal drilling''' is a type of drilling which makes it possible to reach targets inaccessible by vertical drilling and to reduce the footprint of gas field development..."
Hydraulic fracturing - fracking
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Hydraulic fracturing - fracking
Created page with "Hydraulic fracturing or fracking is a type of drilling in which rock is fractured by pressurised water containing chemicals (about 2%) and sand in order to tap oil and gas tha..."
Horizon 2020 work programme
Created page with "The Horizon 2020 work programme is an European multi-year Framework is an European multi-year Framework which, through a €77 billion budget, aims to: *reduce energy consump..."
Nuclear safeguards
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Nuclear safeguards
Created page with "'''Nuclear safeguards''' measures put in place by national or regional governments to ensure that nuclear materials are used only for the peaceful purposes thus complying with..."
Nuclear safety
Created page with "'''Nuclear safety''' safe operation of nuclear power plants. It is complemented by radiation protection and radioactive waste management."
Energy efficiency
Created page with "'''Energy efficiency''' the use of less energy to provide the same service or, alternatively, to the generation of more service per unit of energy used."
Energy mix
Created page with "The range of energy sources of a region – including e.g. fossil fuel, alongside nuclear and renewable energies - which depends on the availability of resources or the possib..."
European Neighborhood Policy
Created page with "Through the European Neighborhood Policy (ENP) the EU works with its southern and eastern neighbours to achieve the closest possible political association and the greatest pos..."