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Three types of risk The expert group put together by the Commission has already identified three types of risks: Import risk, where raw materials are imported from a politically instable region or from a country where the market economy does not work. "That is relatively easy to do as the World Bank has put together governance indexes which measure the political and economic stability index of countries," the EU official explained.    Production risk within the EU, with potential problems such as land access. "If we are in a country for example where the population density is very high, where urbanisation is very high, obviously access will be weak," the EU official explained. Environmental risk, based on indicators such as air or soil pollution, where the impact of raw materials use is measured from an environmental point of view. "This is innovative compared to other studies," the EU official said. "We have just launched a life-cycle analysis to determine what the environmental impact is for each raw material in terms of exploitation, use, treatment, recycling etc., for air or soil pollution as well as emissions of greenhouse gases."

ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, is well prepared for the new ecodesign transformer regulations that came into force within the EU`s internal market in June 2014. All new transformers put into service in the EU must fulfil minimum energy efficiency requirements from July 1, 2015, giving the industry and market a period of grace of less than one year to adapt.Large amounts of power pass through transformers, which account for 30-40 percent of the losses in transmission and distribution systems. Even a marginal increase in transformer efficiency can significantly reduce CO2 emissions.The new EU ecodesign regulation covers small, medium and large power transformers used in electrical transmission and distribution networks, and for industrial applications. However, it does not apply to all transformer products; for example, single phase transformers are unaffected.The new legislation is intended to prevent high loss transformers from being installed in the EU, but the first phase (Tier 1) of efficiency requirements that come into play in July 2015 are only the start. By 2021, a Tier 2 standard will require transformer designs to be about 10 percent more energy efficient than Tier 1.

Broadband investment: hold the line

EU energy policy is a basket of a number of policies that are concerned with energy markets and energy issues. Since the 2007 Spring Council, the basket is based on three pillars: climate change, competitiveness and supply security. Let’s look separately and then jointly at the Kyoto, Lisbon and Moscow summits of this magic EU triangle.

Ukrainian manufacturers of non-ferrous metals, related products and derivatives exporting to the European Union (EU) could benefit from a planned scrapping of import studies charged on products traded between them.

In this pre-study, ambitious but realistic growth rates are assessed for district heating in the EU27 until 2050. The methodology is a combination of hour-by-hour energy modelling of the EU27 energy system and mapping of local conditions. The study finds that deliveries from district heating in the EU can grow by a factor of 2.1 until 2030 and by a factor of 3.3 until 2050.

In a recent report, we have sought to provide answers to two questions: firstly, what are the sources of distress amongst power utilities in the Northwest EU market? Secondly, how are the major EU power utilities responding?

EU governments will be allowed to cut the amount energy-intensive industries, such as non-ferrous metals, pay for the electricity they obtain from renewable sources.

Canadian non-ferrous metal and metal product exporters are optimistic that the free-trade agreement struck between Canada and the European Union (EU) last Friday will increase sales of Canadian material to Europe.