Why is a carbon-intensity threshold needed for Capacity Payments?

Jun 1, 2017

The European Commission has made it clear that it intends to limit capacity payments in Europe, and its most controversial proposal is to prevent capacity payments to high-carbon power plants; those which run on hard coal and lignite. The Commission has proposed to...

NEW DATA: European coal emissions plummet by 11% in 2016

Apr 1, 2017

But the low carbon price is threatening further decarbonisation   01 April 2017 Today, the European Commission published the preliminary 2016 emissions under the EU’s Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS). Sandbag has analysed the data, and we explain in 8 graphs below what...

2015 European Power Sector Review

Jan 28, 2016

2015 saw a record increase in renewables generation, equal to 2.5% of European electricity demand. But despite this, power sector CO2 emissions are expected to fall by only about 0.5%

A new Energy Market Design for Europe

A new Energy Market Design for Europe

Oct 29, 2015

Sandbag’s complementary briefing to accompany our response to theEuropean Commission’s new Energy Market Design consultation. In it, we propose a European-wide electricity supplier decarbonisation obligation, to enable continued decarbonisation in the face...