The main meeting of EU energy ministers will take place in Prague
Update: 12/10/2022 00:24
Issued by: 12/10/2022, 00:14
Prague – Today, the main part of the informal meeting of the ministers of the recommended EU countries for energy begins in the Prague Congress Center. The topic will be hydrogen, energy preparedness for the coming winter and also a possible revision of the electricity market.
Ministers have been meeting in Prague since Tuesday, the topic of Tuesday’s meeting was, for example, securing gas supplies. “We want to enable the introduction of such systematic measures that will support the diversification of gas supplies, energy savings and accelerate the development of low-energy and renewable gases and hydrogen,” said Jozef Síkela (for STAN) after the meeting of the Ministry of Industry and Trade.
Last week, at an informal summit in Prague, prime ministers and presidents of the European Union discussed the solution to high energy prices and further assistance to Ukraine in the war with Russia. According to Prime Minister Petr Fiala (ODS), there is increasing support for the separation of gas prices from electricity prices. The Prime Minister also proposed the release of emission allowances from market reserves in order to reduce their price, which has an effect on heat and electricity prices.
According to Fiala, it is also necessary to look for pan-European possibilities to help with the price of energy for large companies, which cannot be supported from individual state budgets. The president of the European Commission (EC), Ursula von der Leyen, said that the EU executive will have more detailed proposals for measures against rising energy prices ready in the coming weeks. The states introduce themselves before the regular EU summit in Brussels, which takes place on October 20 and 21.