EPG
@epg-thinktank.bsky.social
An independent think-tank specialising in energy and climate policy, focusing on the decarbonisation of the Romanian and Central and Southeastern European economies. EPG is primarily financed through competitive research grants.
Cheers to the GreenHorizon consortium: @csdbuildbridges.bsky.social, @bellonaeu.bsky.social , @fraunhoferisi.bsky.social & Wise Europa.
October 31, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Cheers to the GreenHorizon consortium: @csdbuildbridges.bsky.social, @bellonaeu.bsky.social , @fraunhoferisi.bsky.social & Wise Europa.
🔷Research & Skills: Academic initiatives are fragmented, and no coordinated strategy exists to develop the workforce needed for CM deployment. Closer collaboration between academia, industry, and government is key to building capacity.
This report was written as part of the #GreenHorizon project.
This report was written as part of the #GreenHorizon project.
October 31, 2025 at 2:37 PM
🔷Research & Skills: Academic initiatives are fragmented, and no coordinated strategy exists to develop the workforce needed for CM deployment. Closer collaboration between academia, industry, and government is key to building capacity.
This report was written as part of the #GreenHorizon project.
This report was written as part of the #GreenHorizon project.
🔷Finance: No dedicated national funding instruments for CM exist, and available EU opportunities remain underused. Improved access to finance will be essential for scaling up CCS projects.
October 31, 2025 at 2:37 PM
🔷Finance: No dedicated national funding instruments for CM exist, and available EU opportunities remain underused. Improved access to finance will be essential for scaling up CCS projects.
🔷Public Perception: Despite geological potential for CO₂ storage, awareness of CM and trust in institutions remain low. A national survey shows curiosity & cautious openness, with acceptance linked to transparency, safety, and local benefits.
October 31, 2025 at 2:37 PM
🔷Public Perception: Despite geological potential for CO₂ storage, awareness of CM and trust in institutions remain low. A national survey shows curiosity & cautious openness, with acceptance linked to transparency, safety, and local benefits.
🔷Administrative Capacity: Institutions face heavy workloads and a shortage of specialised CCS expertise, constraining their ability to design, implement, and monitor CM policies. Strengthening existing working groups could enhance coordination and decision-making.
October 31, 2025 at 2:37 PM
🔷Administrative Capacity: Institutions face heavy workloads and a shortage of specialised CCS expertise, constraining their ability to design, implement, and monitor CM policies. Strengthening existing working groups could enhance coordination and decision-making.
🔷Governance & Coordination: Romania has taken initial steps towards CCS deployment, but inter-ministerial collaboration remains weak and political commitment unclear. Roles and responsibilities at regional and local levels are not well-defined, limiting coordinated action.
October 31, 2025 at 2:37 PM
🔷Governance & Coordination: Romania has taken initial steps towards CCS deployment, but inter-ministerial collaboration remains weak and political commitment unclear. Roles and responsibilities at regional and local levels are not well-defined, limiting coordinated action.
This policy position, authored by Mihai Constantin, draws on national papers from #RENewLand partners in Bulgaria, Hungary & Romania.
RENewLand, supported by the European Climate Initiative (EUKI), works to ensure science-based designation of acceleration areas in the region.
RENewLand, supported by the European Climate Initiative (EUKI), works to ensure science-based designation of acceleration areas in the region.
October 3, 2025 at 9:34 AM
This policy position, authored by Mihai Constantin, draws on national papers from #RENewLand partners in Bulgaria, Hungary & Romania.
RENewLand, supported by the European Climate Initiative (EUKI), works to ensure science-based designation of acceleration areas in the region.
RENewLand, supported by the European Climate Initiative (EUKI), works to ensure science-based designation of acceleration areas in the region.
🔋 To address these challenges, #RENewLand recommends:
- Stronger stakeholder platforms
- Transparent GIS-based planning
- Prioritisation of degraded lands
- Grid strategy alignment
- Greater local participation
- Stronger stakeholder platforms
- Transparent GIS-based planning
- Prioritisation of degraded lands
- Grid strategy alignment
- Greater local participation
October 3, 2025 at 9:34 AM
🔋 To address these challenges, #RENewLand recommends:
- Stronger stakeholder platforms
- Transparent GIS-based planning
- Prioritisation of degraded lands
- Grid strategy alignment
- Greater local participation
- Stronger stakeholder platforms
- Transparent GIS-based planning
- Prioritisation of degraded lands
- Grid strategy alignment
- Greater local participation
🇧🇬: adopted some legal amendments but faces institutional fragmentation and data gaps.
🇭🇺: strong renewable potential but hindered by restrictive technical standards and fragmented governance.
🇷🇴: draft framework exists but still struggles with grid limitations and administrative capacity.
🇭🇺: strong renewable potential but hindered by restrictive technical standards and fragmented governance.
🇷🇴: draft framework exists but still struggles with grid limitations and administrative capacity.
October 3, 2025 at 9:34 AM
🇧🇬: adopted some legal amendments but faces institutional fragmentation and data gaps.
🇭🇺: strong renewable potential but hindered by restrictive technical standards and fragmented governance.
🇷🇴: draft framework exists but still struggles with grid limitations and administrative capacity.
🇭🇺: strong renewable potential but hindered by restrictive technical standards and fragmented governance.
🇷🇴: draft framework exists but still struggles with grid limitations and administrative capacity.
RAAs concentrate renewable energy in areas of low environmental sensitivity, speeding up permitting while safeguarding nature and communities.
The paper highlights both the challenges and what can be done next. 👇
The paper highlights both the challenges and what can be done next. 👇
October 3, 2025 at 9:34 AM
RAAs concentrate renewable energy in areas of low environmental sensitivity, speeding up permitting while safeguarding nature and communities.
The paper highlights both the challenges and what can be done next. 👇
The paper highlights both the challenges and what can be done next. 👇
This policy position, authored by Mihai Constantin, draws on national papers from RENewLand partners in Bulgaria, Hungary & Romania.
RENewLand, supported by the European Climate Initiative (EUKI), works to ensure science-based designation of acceleration areas in the region.
RENewLand, supported by the European Climate Initiative (EUKI), works to ensure science-based designation of acceleration areas in the region.
October 3, 2025 at 9:30 AM
This policy position, authored by Mihai Constantin, draws on national papers from RENewLand partners in Bulgaria, Hungary & Romania.
RENewLand, supported by the European Climate Initiative (EUKI), works to ensure science-based designation of acceleration areas in the region.
RENewLand, supported by the European Climate Initiative (EUKI), works to ensure science-based designation of acceleration areas in the region.
🔋 To address these challenges, #RENewLand recommends:
- Stronger stakeholder platforms
- Transparent GIS-based planning
- Prioritisation of degraded lands
- Grid strategy alignment
- Greater local participation
- Stronger stakeholder platforms
- Transparent GIS-based planning
- Prioritisation of degraded lands
- Grid strategy alignment
- Greater local participation
October 3, 2025 at 9:30 AM
🔋 To address these challenges, #RENewLand recommends:
- Stronger stakeholder platforms
- Transparent GIS-based planning
- Prioritisation of degraded lands
- Grid strategy alignment
- Greater local participation
- Stronger stakeholder platforms
- Transparent GIS-based planning
- Prioritisation of degraded lands
- Grid strategy alignment
- Greater local participation
🇧🇬: adopted some legal amendments but faces institutional fragmentation and data gaps.
🇭🇺: strong renewable potential but hindered by restrictive technical standards and fragmented governance.
🇷🇴: draft framework exists but still struggles with grid limitations and administrative capacity.
🇭🇺: strong renewable potential but hindered by restrictive technical standards and fragmented governance.
🇷🇴: draft framework exists but still struggles with grid limitations and administrative capacity.
October 3, 2025 at 9:30 AM
🇧🇬: adopted some legal amendments but faces institutional fragmentation and data gaps.
🇭🇺: strong renewable potential but hindered by restrictive technical standards and fragmented governance.
🇷🇴: draft framework exists but still struggles with grid limitations and administrative capacity.
🇭🇺: strong renewable potential but hindered by restrictive technical standards and fragmented governance.
🇷🇴: draft framework exists but still struggles with grid limitations and administrative capacity.
EPG’s latest policy position provides a strategic analysis of progress, barriers, and recommendations for Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania.
It highlights both the challenges and what can be done next: shorturl.at/x2zwF
It highlights both the challenges and what can be done next: shorturl.at/x2zwF
October 3, 2025 at 9:30 AM
EPG’s latest policy position provides a strategic analysis of progress, barriers, and recommendations for Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania.
It highlights both the challenges and what can be done next: shorturl.at/x2zwF
It highlights both the challenges and what can be done next: shorturl.at/x2zwF
Questions on the future of CCUS still remain open and ripe for new research, including funding and financing models, carbon accounting of long value-chain projects, and appropriate community engagement mechanisms.
September 29, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Questions on the future of CCUS still remain open and ripe for new research, including funding and financing models, carbon accounting of long value-chain projects, and appropriate community engagement mechanisms.
The findings reinforce that for CCUS to make a substantial contribution to the EU’s net zero targets, it needs to be:
-well-targeted;
-appropriately supported through research, development, and demonstration;
-applied through coop. between Member States, project developers, and local communities;
-well-targeted;
-appropriately supported through research, development, and demonstration;
-applied through coop. between Member States, project developers, and local communities;
September 29, 2025 at 9:22 AM
The findings reinforce that for CCUS to make a substantial contribution to the EU’s net zero targets, it needs to be:
-well-targeted;
-appropriately supported through research, development, and demonstration;
-applied through coop. between Member States, project developers, and local communities;
-well-targeted;
-appropriately supported through research, development, and demonstration;
-applied through coop. between Member States, project developers, and local communities;
ConsenCUS brought forward innovations in carbon capture and utilisation, demonstrated at three industrial sites across Europe, and generated new knowledge across areas such as technology development and demonstration, systems modelling, geological storage capabilities, policy, and public perception.
September 29, 2025 at 9:22 AM
ConsenCUS brought forward innovations in carbon capture and utilisation, demonstrated at three industrial sites across Europe, and generated new knowledge across areas such as technology development and demonstration, systems modelling, geological storage capabilities, policy, and public perception.
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September 15, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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The study highlights both opportunities & risks:
🔹Oversupply has kept GO prices too low to drive new investment
🔹GOs may play a stronger role in renewable heat & fuels, where scarcity can support higher prices
🔹Timestamping (“hourly GOs”) can boost transparency & strengthen renewable energy claims
🔹Oversupply has kept GO prices too low to drive new investment
🔹GOs may play a stronger role in renewable heat & fuels, where scarcity can support higher prices
🔹Timestamping (“hourly GOs”) can boost transparency & strengthen renewable energy claims
September 15, 2025 at 12:15 PM
The study highlights both opportunities & risks:
🔹Oversupply has kept GO prices too low to drive new investment
🔹GOs may play a stronger role in renewable heat & fuels, where scarcity can support higher prices
🔹Timestamping (“hourly GOs”) can boost transparency & strengthen renewable energy claims
🔹Oversupply has kept GO prices too low to drive new investment
🔹GOs may play a stronger role in renewable heat & fuels, where scarcity can support higher prices
🔹Timestamping (“hourly GOs”) can boost transparency & strengthen renewable energy claims
GOs can create an extra revenue stream for renewable producers & help companies meet their ESG targets. With 🇷🇴 designing its GO scheme, there is an opportunity to strengthen the role of private financing in renewable energy development alongside public support — if the scheme is carefully designed.
September 15, 2025 at 12:15 PM
GOs can create an extra revenue stream for renewable producers & help companies meet their ESG targets. With 🇷🇴 designing its GO scheme, there is an opportunity to strengthen the role of private financing in renewable energy development alongside public support — if the scheme is carefully designed.