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CIEP Briefing Paper: Germany’s Energiewende: Redefining the Rules of the Energy Game
February 16, 2012. German energy policy is increasingly being influenced by a diverse and growing group of renewable energy supporters. They pursue a transition towards an energy system predominantly based on renewable energy. After the Fukushima nuclear disaster, these actors became dominant in Germany’s energy policy arena. Consequently, the Energiewende, as the transition has been coined, has been taken up as a broad societal challenge, pursued by parties across the political spectrum and actively supported by a large part of the German public. Read more»
CIEP Briefing Paper: “Iranian Game: Multiple Layers”
February 13, 2012. Iran is back, and with a vengeance. Despite temporal excitement from the Arab Awakening, the structural realities of Iranian nuclear ambitions were never going to go away. It’s not crunch time yet, but regional and external policy makers in the Middle East need to pose a very serious and very fundamental policy question: are they ultimately happy to live with a nuclear armed Iran or not? Read more»
CIEP Energy Paper: “Harvesting Transition? Energy Policy Cooperation or Competition around the North Sea”
February 1, 2012. The Northwest European electricity markets are increasingly becoming intertwined with the advance of the internal market. This implies that national fuel mix policies increasingly have cross-national implications. The German decision to phase out nuclear energy has made this crystal clear. Adding more renewable energy to the electricity system intensifies the need for coordination between the Northwest European countries. With the Pentalateral Forum in mind, we have distinguished five different options with an increasing level of coordination, which we would like to bring to the attention of Northwest European policy-makers. Read more
Recent publications
| EN | Germany's Energiewende: Redefining the Rules of the Energy Game (Summary), Rick Bosman |
| EN | Iranian Game: Multiple Layers (Summary), Matthew Hulbert |
| EN | Harvesting Transition? Energy Policy Cooperation or Competition around the North Sea (Summary), Leonie Meulman, Pieter Boot, Coby van der Linde, Jacques de Jong and Luc Werring |
| EN | A new EU Gas Security of Supply Architecture (Summary), Jacques de Jong |
| EN | Wind and Gas, Back-up or Back-out, "That is the Question" (Summary), Nora Méray |
| NL | Aardgas: Eén verleden en vele toekomstscenario's (Summary), Aad Correljé |
| NL | Aardolie: Economisch en maatschappelijk smeermiddel voor Nederland (Summary), Jochem Meijknecht en Lucia van Geuns |
Media
| NL | Dimensionering, Coby van der Linde |
| NL | De tektoniek van de intercontinentale energiemarkten, Aad Correljé |
| NL | Miss Sophie, Coby van der Linde |
| NL | Dansen, Coby van der Linde |
| NL | Op de drempel, Pieter Boot |