Not only electricity or gas, the EFET “traditional” commodities: with the launch of a new industry-standard Biomass trading document, the European Federation of Energy Traders
(EFET)1 is providing a further momentum to the development of a liquid wood-pellets traded market.

On the occasion of the death of President Hugo Chavez Frias, I would like to express the huge sadness felt by each member of our political group and extend our deepest condolences and solidarity to his family, his friends and his people.

The European Federation of Energy Traders (EFET)1 supports an EU-wide objective of joint sale of consistent capacity products from each gas Transmission System to the next.
Changes in the allocation of gas pipeline capacity at Europe’s main interconnection points are reaching a critical phase. It is essential that the Regulators and Gas Transporters move forward and avoid locking-in the current differences across Europe’s borders.

On 28th February, at the European Parliament in Brussels, ICT4E2B Forum partners presented their project’s final results about the role of ICT for Energy efficient buildings to an audience of over 120 attendees. The project funded by DG CONNECT and developed within the framework of the Energy-efficient Buildings Public Private Partnership (EeB PPP) initiative, has performed a deep analysis of the research challenges and innovation priorities that ICT will have to address in future.

At the MEDPOL meeting today, CEEP General Secretary, Valeria Ronzitti, highlighted the need to focus on a topic often sidelined to discussions on employment and social issues: that of skills mismatches. She contended that this issue warranted more attention, as “persistent skills mismatches are detrimental to the productivity growth potential. In other words, they have macro-economic consequences”.