Bertrand Charmaison

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Bertrand Charmaison pilots the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)’s Tech-Eco transversal program and heads the I-Tésé Institute in Paris, studying the economics and sustainability of the energy transition towards carbon neutrality. He is a renowned expert in the eld of energy economics & industrial organization.

Bertrand Charmaison

Mar 25 2022

Long-term contracts: a solution to soaring gas prices in Europe?

Illuminem Voices

Energy · Downstream

The current surge in gas prices has its causes in the ongoing war in Ukraine: tensions over supply have resulted in an unprecedented surge in market prices, which is or will ultimately be passed on to consumers in Europe. While this unprecedented crisis has major geopolitical implications, it should also raise questions about the organization of the market put in place in Europe over the past twenty years and in particular its consequences on long-term contracts: is this organization optimal for in the face of crises?

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To achieve carbon neutrality, we need to fix the system that guarantees the origin of electricity

Bertrand Charmaison

Feb 01 2022

To achieve carbon neutrality, we need to fix the system that guarantees the origin of electricity

Energy

The European Commission is about to modernise its Renewable Energy Directive. It has to take this opportunity to start the necessary process of revising the system for guaranteeing the origin of electricity, which is currently suffering from shortcomings that prevent it from achieving its objectives.

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Bertrand Charmaison

Feb 01 2022