Affiliate Fellow @bruegel.org
Personal website: https://roth-a.de/
Alexander Roth
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🚨 The fiscal fault lines of Europe’s energy shock
🪙 European measures to address the latest energy crisis are ignoring past lessons and long-term goals.
📝 Read the First Glance by Thomas Mramor, @aroth.bsky.social & @tagliapietra.bsky.social
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Last week, the EU Commission published a plan outlining how to address the Iran energy crisis:
❓How to read the AccelerateEU plan?
@bruegel.org First Glance with @tagliapietra.bsky.social
🔗 www.bruegel.org/first-glance...
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3) Lacking strong competencies in fiscal and energy policy, the Commission focuses on coordination (see www.bruegel.org/analysis/how...) and relaxing state aid in the short term
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4) It urged governments to use targeted measures as a response to the higher fossil fuel prices. Our Bruegel tracker (www.bruegel.org/dataset/2026...) shows that most measures are untargeted, though:
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1) The Commission, unlike some national governments, keeps its transition course: Climate policies should not be dismantled, but they increase the EU's energy independence
2) Electrification is key: it enables efficiency and the use of domestic electricity for transport, heating, and industry
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1/ 🔌🚗 Neue Zahlen zu Elektroautos:
▶️ Im April 2026 war gut jedes vierte neu zugelassene Auto in Deutschland rein batterieelektrisch (25,8%).
▶️ Damit hat sich der positive Trend der letzten Monate fortgesetzt.
▶️ Das verbesserte Modellangebot und die neuen Kaufprämien dürften sich positiv auswirken.
It has been a solid week of European natural gas filling. Daily rates are 0.26 pp / day, continuing at this pace would see storages reach 80% by 1 November (the EU agreed target).
1/ Published today in @natcomms.nature.com: our analysis on long-duration electricity storage needs for coping with #Dunkelflaute events in 🇪🇺 . Joint work with my stellar @diw.de colleagues @kittelmartin.bsky.social (lead) and @aroth.bsky.social 🎉https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-72681-5
Alexander Roth
Alexander Roth
Alexander Roth
Alexander Roth
Bruegel
Wolf-Peter Schill
Wolf-Peter Schill
Ben McWilliams
www.nature.com
Extreme periods of low wind and solar energy ("Dunkelflaute”) drive substantial long-duration electricity storage needs in a renewable European power system. Rapid deployment is required to safeguard…
