EUGINE, together with EUTurbines, initiated a joint letter Cogen Europe, EBA, ETE, ETN, EUGINE, EUTurbines, SolarPower Europe and WindEurope, associations representing the providers of power generation technologies and services.

The coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis presents a great challenge to the European economy and society, whose impact and extent remain difficult to assess. Drastic measures are needed to limit the virus propagation, yet essential services need to be guaranteed.

Following the publication of...

EUGINE together with seven other associations of the gas value chain sent a joint letter to European Commission and Member States raising concerns regarding a possible discrimination of biogas as solution to reduce GHG, caused by the planned revision of a regulation on the EU ETS monitoring and reporting.

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“The climate-neutrality objective provides certainty on the direction we are heading in for 2050 but lacks clarity on the steps in between and the solutions to be developed for achieving it”, said Ralf Wezel, Secretary General of both EUGINE and EUTurbines, when commenting the European Commission’s proposal for a European Climate Law, on behalf of the European gas power plant industry.

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In cooperation with EUTurbines, the EUGINE task force on connection network codes has taken position on the ENTSO-E report on "Deterministic Frequency Deviations" (DFD).

"This report elaborates on the general approach for mitigating and alleviating the DFDs in Continental Europe (CE) and proposes to set common DFD targets for the Synchronous Area of CE. The solutions for mitigating the DFDs can be different from TSO to TSO, depending on the technical...

EUGINE has co-signed an industry statement on the Taxonomy Regulation.

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EUTurbines and EUGINE welcome the ambitions expressed in the European Green Deal presented today. The European gas power plant industry, represented by the two associations covering turbine and engine technologies respectively, supports the targets of climate-neutrality and the decarbonisation of the EU’s energy system. 

Ralf Wezel, Secretary General of EUGINE and EUTurbines, states "“We appreciate to see that the European Green Deal highlights the importance of sector coupling and the decarbonisation...

We all agree – there is no silver bullet. Instead, a wide range of technologies and solutions are necessary to reach climate neutrality. Particularly, we will not be able to reach this goal, if renewable energy is only carried via electrons. Therefore, a stronger emphasis needs to be put on sector coupling and integration. Hence, we very much welcome the crucial role you see for hydrogen as one of the...

EUGINE welcomes the EU’s climate neutrality ambition and supports the related ongoing preparatory work. The manufacturers of engine power plants strongly believe in the role of both ‘sector coupling’ and all kinds of gas, from natural gas to renewable gases, as essential means for an efficient and successful decarbonisation.

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Following the adoption by the European Investment Bank (EIB) of a new energy lending policy aligned with the Paris Climate Agreement, EUGINE Secretary General Ralf Wezel commented as follows:

“The EIB has played a key role in funding valuable projects such as the highly flexible & efficient gas engines of Kiel or the emergency reserve power plant of Kiisa which is essential to Estonia’s security of electricity supply.”

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On 13 November EUGINE organised a conference at PowerGen in Paris, gathering engine experts, grid operators, EU decision-makers and interested stakeholders, all willing to discuss trends for both our technology and EU energy & climate policies.


Showcasing 2030 trends for engine power plants applications

Presenting the new trends of a quickly further developing industry was the objective of the first part of the EUGINE conference. The speakers, all of them EUGINE...

EUGINE has been actively pleading for the adoption of a simple harmonised calculation methodology for the new CO2 emission limits for power plants participating in capacity mechanisms. It is important that the same clear requirements apply to power plant operators in all EU Member States. To contribute to this objective, EUGINE was pleased to reply to the ACER consultation on the future guidelines for a calculation methodology. The European Engine...

As part of a cooperation agreement, EUGINE will organise a half-day programme at PowerGen Europe for discussing the future of engine power generation

The event will take place on 13 November 09:30 – 12:15 and present and discuss application trends for engine power plants as well as the future of engines in a carbon-neutral energy system.

Panellists will include representatives from all leading engine manufacturers, but also the European Commission and other...

Together with 92 other EU organisations, EUGINE calls on the Council of the EU to raise the budget allocated to the Horizon Europe programme to at least €120 billion (in 2018 prices). The signatories of the joint statement enclosed call on EU Institutions to prioritise excellent cross-border collaborative RD&I with impact within Horizon Europe, and to allocate a budget share of at least 60% of Horizon Europe’s total budget...

State aid rules have a strong impact on the business case of environmentally friendly energy projects such as gas engines running on biogas or used for high-efficiency cogeneration (on-site combined heat and power production). EUGINE was therefore very pleased to contribute to some of the questions of the public consultation organised by the European Commission on its state aids guidelines for environmental and energy projects.

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After a legislative period mainly focused on the development of the electricity market and the adoption of the ‘clean energy’ package, the 2019-2024 legislative period should be focused on progressively decarbonising the gas grid as well as the heating, transport and industry sectors. Download here our Policy Navigator - Your guide to legislation enabling dispatchable green energy.

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Appreciating the opportunity to comment on regulatory challenges for a sustainable gas sector EUGINE took part in the CEER public consultation and provided answers to various questions.

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EUGINE together with other associations wrote to COREPER to express our support for the ongoing important work on the draft Council conclusions on the Future of Energy Systems in the Energy Union. Ahead of the COREPER debate on 12 June it seemed to be important to formulate our view on some of the key elements addressed.

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Following today’s final adoption of the revised electricity market legislation by EU ministers, EUGINE Secretary General Ralf Wezel commented

“With the new rules supporting scarcity pricing we should definitely see more and more investments in technologies such as gas engines and storage which due to their flexibility can easily deliver in those key moments when wind & solar cannot meet the electricity demand.”

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Ralf Wezel, Secretary General of EUGINE, signed on 1 April 2019 the Bucharest Declaration of the Romanian Presidency of the Council of the EU on "Sustainable and Smart Gas Infrastructure for Europe". The signatories of the non-binding document highlight the potential of the gas infrastructure "to accommodate increasing shares of near-zero carbon hydrogen and Renewable gases". EUGINE recalled on that occasion that already today gas engines of more than 17...

Appreciating the opportunity to comment on the future EIB energy lending policy EUGINE took part in the EIB public consultation and provided answers to various questions.

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The European Commission presented on 28 November the much awaited “Strategy for long-term EU greenhouse gas emissions reductions”. The strategy presents possible paths and measures that will allow the EU to comply with the Paris agreement and to reach the climate neutral objective as soon as possible.

The goal of limiting global warming to well below 2°C requires a comprehensive plan to ensure the deployment of existing solutions and the development...

Horizon Europe – ITRE Committee vote:

Energy efficiency, flexibility and renewable gases rightfully taken on board

R&I support is crucial to ensure the transition towards a reliable, cost-efficient and decarbonised energy system. It is therefore important that the future EU R&I framework programme “Horizon Europe” adequately includes all areas contributing to this goal.

Ralf Wezel, Secretary General of EUGINE and EUTurbines, has expressed his support to the reports of MEP Dan Nica...

On Monday, 8 October EUGINE successfully hosted a dinner-debate of the European Energy Forum

Chaired by MEP Inese Vaidere, Director of the European Energy Forum

Speakers:
• Hermann Kröger, Senior Vice-President MAN Energy Solutions
• Eero Ailio, Advisor Internal Energy Market DG Energy - European Commission

See the EUGINE press release on ths event here

After Europe set ambitious climate & energy targets for 2030, it must focus on reaching them and defining the...

Islands find it extremely challenging to achieve the EU target of a sustainable, affordable and at the same time reliable energy system. EUGINE organised thus a dinner-debate for EU decision-makers, at the European Parliament, on 8 October.

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New President of European Engine Power Plant Association

EUGINE, the European engine power plant association, elected Hermann Kröger, Senior Vice-President at MAN Energy Solutions as new President. He succeeds Kari Hietanen, Executive Vice-President of Wärtsilä Corporation, who led the association since its founding in 2014 and will continue to serve as Vice-President of the association, together with Dan Sundell, General Manager at Caterpillar Energy Solutions.

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On Monday, 8 October EUGINE will host a dinner-debate of the European Energy Forum

Welcome at 19:30 for dinner at 20:00
Members’ Restaurant, European Parliament, Brussels

Chaired by Jerzy Buzek MEP, President of the European Energy Forum

Speakers:
• Hermann Kröger, Senior Vice-President MAN Energy Solutions
• Miguel Sagredo, Adviser to Commissioner Miguel Arias Cañete (tbc)
• Fabrice Dubreuil, Deputy Permanent Representative of France to the EU (tbc)

After Europe set ambitious climate & energy targets for 2030,...

Ahead of the European Commission’s consultation on the EU Long-term Decarbonisation Strategy, the sector of gas-based power generation highlights one of the energy system’s most promising solutions to reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and tackling climate change: the switch of gas-based power generation to carbon-neutral gases.

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“Austria’s new energy and climate targets for 2030 and how to achieve them”

by EUGINE & CIMAC
Tuesday, 19 June 2018 – 12:00 – 14:00

Taking place in Vienna during the Electrify Europe exhibition & conference, this year’s  European Engine Power Plant Forum will look at the ambitious new Austrian government targets on energy and climate and discuss the impact and the role flexible and efficient engine power plants can play in...

10 key take-aways have been concluded from the study “Flexibility needs and options for Europe’s future electricity system”.

These take-aways have now also been translated into Ialian and Spanish.

Le 10 cose più importanti dello studio di flessibilità

10 Conclusiones clave del estudio sobre flexibilidad

Here you can also find the whole study and the 10 take-aways in English, German and French.

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The 10 most important things we learned...

Following the adoption of Mr Karins’ report by the European Parliament’s energy committee, the EUGINE Secretary General Ralf Wezel expressed mixed feelings:

“The European Parliament is heading towards liberalised, much more short-term, dynamic and flexible electricity markets where scarcity prices play a greater role. We very much welcome biddings close to real time, the marginal pricing, hedging products, imbalance settlement periods reduced to 15 minutes already by 2021, without derogations, contrary...

10 key take-aways have been concluded from the study “Flexibility needs and options for Europe’s future electricity system”.

Here you can find the whole study and the 10 take-aways, the latter in German and French versions as well.

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The 10 most important things we learned from the study

Das Wichtigste aus der Flexibilitätsstudie

Les 10 points clés de l'étude sur la flexibilité

With the political process about the future European electricity market design reaching its hot phase, EUGINE, the European engine power plant association, and Energy Brainpool, a consultancy specialised in the energy sector, have published an analysis of the key ability needed for the stability of a renewables dominated energy system: flexibility.

The study provides evidence that it will need different flexibility options to match the different challenges from short- to long-term...

Flexible gas engine power plants are an important element for the energy transition

Successful first European Engine Power Plant Forum organised by EUGINE and CIMAC

The energy transition will lead to a smart combination of renewable energy sources with storage technology and flexible engine power plants, capable to balance the variability of the renewables. Fostering the provision of these solutions – including flexible engine power plants - can best be done...

Flexible gas engine power plants are an important element for the energy transition

Successful first European Engine Power Plant Forum organised by EUGINE and CIMAC

The energy transition will lead to a smart combination of renewable energy sources with storage technology and flexible engine power plants, capable to balance the variability of the renewables. Fostering the provision of these solutions – including flexible engine power plants - can best be done...

Following the publication of MEP Krišjānis Kariņš’ draft reports on the revised electricity regulation and directive, EUGINE Secretary General Ralf Wezel expressed his overall satisfaction:

“We fully share Mr Karins’ “market first” approach which definitely is the best option to foster the development of renewables as well as flexibility solutions at lowest cost.”

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Tuesday June 28, 2017, 10:00 h - 12:30 h

In cooperation with CIMAC and Power-Gen Europe

CIMAC Circle at Power-Gen 2017 in Cologne

Welcome by Axel Kettmann, VP of CIMAC

Keynote speech by Thorsten Herdan, Director General of the energy policy department, German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy

“Why the Energiewende needs flexible dispatchable power generation with gas”
Panel discussion

Panelists
•    Thorsten Herdan, Director General of the energy policy department, German Federal for...

Over 100 participants from the European Parliament, European Commission, representations of EU member states and energy policy lobbyists joined a dinner debate on capacity mechanism hosted by EUGINE on 22 March in the European Parliament.

Following an introduction by Ralf Wezel the key speech was delivered by Marcel Zürn from Rolls-Royce Power Systems as member of EUGINE’s TF on Market Design. The message was clear and fully in line with the...

Following the publication of the ‘Clean Energy for All’ package today, EUGINE Secretary General Ralf Wezel expressed its overall support to the European Commission’s proposals, especially on the future electricity market design.

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High potential for Power-to-Gas in power generation –
Providing flexibility and contributing to decarbonisation

Power-to-Gas-to-Power is a promising solution, which can contribute to solving the flexibility challenge in a system with an ever-increasing share of variable renewable energy sources - but needs a favourable framework. This was the main conclusion of the conference “Power-to-Gas: Balancing the energy system with green fuel”, jointly organised by EUGINE and EUTurbines this week.

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Following the adoption of MEP Langen’s report “Toward a new energy market design” by the European Parliament on 13 September, EUGINE Secretary General Ralf Wezel expressed his satisfaction.

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EUGINE, the European engine power plants association, together with similar industry federations, published a joint declaration pleading for “an ambitious power market reform”:

“We share the conviction that only a flexible and dynamic energy system, making the best use of innovative and distributed supply and demand options, can ensure a cost-efficient and sustainable transition towards a decarbonised energy system.”

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EUGINE, the European engine power plants association, together with similar industry federations, published a joint declaration pleading for “an ambitious power market reform”:

“We share the conviction that only a flexible and dynamic energy system, making the best use of innovative and distributed supply and demand options, can ensure a cost-efficient and sustainable transition towards a decarbonised energy system.”

Read the entire press release

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Within the SET-Plan discussions, the European Commission has proposed an overarching R&I target to ensure the EU’s energy system robustness and resilience (action n°4). EUTurbines, EUGINE (European Engine Power Plants Association) and EPPSA (European Power Plant Suppliers Association) have jointly prepared an input paper stressing the importance of flexible thermal backup generation to achieve this target. The paper also outlines a number of R&I priority areas to further increase the...

European industry associations from different sectors reiterate their support for the negotiations on the Environmental Goods Agreement (EGA) and would like to underline the importance of reaching a comprehensive agreement during the final negotiating round scheduled to start on 26 November 2016.

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Ahead of next week’s concluding round of negotiation of the planned ‘Environmental Goods Agreement’ (EGA), EUGINE Secretary General Ralf Wezel highlighted the industry’s support for the EGA negotiation and the inclusion of engine power plants (‘gensets’) and their key components (‘spark-ignition engines’ & ‘generators’) on this list of sustainable products.

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Gas-to-Power has a strong, complementing role to play with an increasing share of variable renewables in the European energy mix. This was one of the key statements conveyed at an event organised jointly by EUGINE, EUTurbines and GasNaturally representing the European gas power plants and gas industry on 18 November 2015.

The panellists agreed that today’s policy framework is not designed for the new energy mix, challenging the safeguarding of the...

Engine power plants will play a vital role within the future energy mix. Already today engine power plants are a widely used technology in energy generation, mainly in the field of emergency power and combined heat and power applications. For a better understanding of their technology and the wide range of applications EUGINE published this brochure.

EUGINE - Engine Power Plants - Technology & Applications

Engine power plants will play a vital role within the future energy mix. Already today engine power plants are a widely used technology in energy generation, mainly in the field of emergency power and combined heat and power applications. For a better understanding of their technology and the wide range of applications EUGINE published this brochure.

EUGINE - Engine Power Plants - Technology & Applications