The effects of the oil counter-shock: The best is yet to come!
By Eric Heyer and Paul Hubert After falling sharply over the past two years, oil prices have been rising once again since the start of the […]
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Areva, Flamanville and Fessenheim: key players in France’s nuclear turn
By Sarah Guillou The recent law on “the energy transition to green growth”, promulgated on 17 August 2015, plans for a fall in nuclear energy’s […]
Oil: carbon for growth
By Céline Antonin, Bruno Ducoudré, Hervé Péléraux, Christine Rifflart, Aurélien Saussay This text is based on the special study of the same name [Pétrole : du carbone […]
The US economy at a standstill in Q1 2015: the impact of shale oil
By Aurélien Saussay (@aureliensaussay) The US Bureau of Economic Analysis has just released its estimate of US growth in the first quarter of 2015: at […]
The promotion of renewable energy innovation: when State intervention and competition go hand in hand
by Lionel Nesta and Francesco Vona[1] In contrast with the common belief that competition demands no State intervention, innovation policy and competition complement each other. […]
The energy companies: Green is making them see red
By Sarah Guillou and Evens Salies [1] Does the common energy market unduly favour renewable energy sources (“renewables”)? This is the opinion of the nine energy companies that […]
Solar power is cooling Sino-European relations
By Sarah Guillou In early July 2013, yet another company in the solar industry, Conergy, declared bankruptcy. The departure of this German company, established in […]
Tales from EDF
By Evens Saliesa The challenge facing policy-making on the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions is not just environmental. It is also necessary to stimulate innovation, a […]
Valuing energy savings fairly
By Evens Salies [1] Following the first meeting of the Commission mixte paritaire (a joint commission of the two houses of the French Parliament) on […]
Underlying deflation
Christophe Blot, Marion Cochard, Bruno Ducoudré and Eric Heyer A look at the latest statistics on price trends indicates that the risk of deflation seems […]