Clean Energy Package meaning

In this issue: Air emissions and climate change Contamination and pollution Energy efficiency and buildings Energy for environmental lawyers Environmental information Environmental taxes, reliefs and incentives ESG and sustainability Hazardous substances and chemicals Nature, biodiversity and habitat conservation Waste Water, flooding and drainage Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Air emissions and climate change Greenhouse Gas Removals (GGR)-UK government publishes Business Model documentation On 27 August 2025, the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) released a suite of papers on its proposed Greenhouse Gas Removals (GGR) Business Model and accompanying policy. The Lexis+ Energy team, working with Navraj Singh Ghaleigh, Senior Lecturer in Climate Law at the University of Edinburgh Law School, set out the context for the GGR Business Model; its relationship with the Power BECCS Business Model; the technologies the GGR framework intends to encompass; its legal footing and principal features; and how...

In this issue: Air emissions and climate change Energy efficiency of products Energy for environmental lawyers ESG and sustainability Hazardous substances and chemicals Marine Nature, biodiversity and habitat conservation Waste Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Air emissions and climate change Defra opens consultation on industrial emissions permitting reforms The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has begun consulting on plans to modernise England’s environmental permitting regime for industrial emissions. The package aims to foster innovation, adopt agile standards, secure proportionate and coherent regulation, boost regulator effectiveness and efficiency, and deliver a transparent system. Suggested measures include a new registration route for low-risk installations, flexible site permits setting overall emissions caps, and faster approvals for time‑limited technology trials. The proposals reflect the Corry Review’s critique of regulatory inefficiency. The Environment Agency intends to roll out changes that could cut permit queues from months to days and lower...

In this issue: Electricity and gas market regulation and licensing Renewable energy Capacity Market, balancing services and energy system flexibility Conventional power, waste to energy, biomass, and CHP projects Nuclear energy Planning issues in energy projects International energy Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers Electricity and gas market regulation and licensing Ofgem publishes determinations on code manager selection for REC and BSC Ofgem has issued two determinations, setting out its conclusions under section 187(1) of the Energy Act 2023 to move ahead with appointing code managers for the Balancing and Settlement Code (BSC) and the Retail Energy Code (REC) without running a competition. As a consequence, both the Retail Energy Code Company Ltd and Elexon Ltd will, respectively, be asked to provide a licensing assessment form. Ofgem will subsequently review the submissions and confirm whether it proposes to award each entity a licence. See:...

ARCHIVED : This Practice Note has been archived and is not maintained . Purpose In late November 2016, the European Commission formally issued a Communication titled ‘Clean Energy for All Europeans’ as part of the Energy Union, intended to support and accelerate the shift to a low-carbon economy (see Practice Note: EU 2050 low-carbon economy—snapshot). The Clean Energy Package—also referred to as the EU ‘Winter Package’ or ‘Winter Energy Package’—brought forward eight new legislative measures, designed to comprehensively reshape the electricity market, in practice, bolster security of energy supply, set governance rules and frameworks for the Energy Union, put energy efficiency first, secure global leadership in renewables, on a global stage, and ensure a fair deal for consumers. The Energy Union, one of the Juncker Commission’s ten priorities, long served as the EU’s principal vehicle for, and contribution to, a comprehensive, worldwide move towards a low-carbon economy. Then, as now, indeed, the Commission sought EU leadership of the clean energy transition, viewing the package as a chance to...

ARCHIVED: This Practice Note has been archived and is not maintained. Overview The 2020 EU Climate and Energy package, agreed in 2007, set three principal targets for 2020: 20% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions against 1990 levels, with a 30% cut by 2020 conditional on a comprehensive international climate change agreement 20% of EU energy from renewable sources 20% improvement in energy efficiency At the March 2007 European Council, EU leaders committed to clear, legally binding objectives to confront climate change, secure sustainable and competitive energy, and make the EU economy a 21st‑century model of sustainable development. Europe signalled readiness to lead globally, reflecting firm resolve. The surest route to achieve such ambition was for each Member State to know precisely what was required, and for the aims to be binding in law so the levers of government could be fully mobilised and the private sector would have the long‑term confidence needed to justify the investment to transform the...

Context Under the European Green Deal, the EU has committed to progressively lowering greenhouse gas emissions up to and beyond 2030, aiming ultimately for net zero by 2050. Regulation (EU) 2021/1119 of 30 June 2021 (the EU Climate Regulation) sets a legally binding requirement for the EU to cut carbon emissions by 55% from 1990 levels by 2030 and to achieve full carbon neutrality by 2050. The European Commission estimates that energy production and consumption account for over 75% of the EU’s greenhouse gas emissions. Rapid decarbonisation of the energy system is therefore vital to meet the 2030 and 2050 goals. To deliver this, the EU is designing and putting in place a legal and policy framework for a climate‑neutral, ‘clean’ energy system, centred on renewable energy and renewable hydrogen, together with improved energy efficiency. The shift to a low‑carbon energy system has long featured on the EU’s policy agenda. The European Green Deal targets build on—and heighten the ambition of—earlier EU strategies and action plans, including the 2030...