What will be bundled up in the European Commission's winter package?

Madeleine Cuff
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Non-binding clean energy targets, changes to priority dispatch rules and an EU-wide system for capacity mechanisms all expected in tomorrow's bumper policy package

Tomorrow the European Commission will unveil its long-awaited winter package, a mammoth 1,000 pages of proposed legislation detailing the trading bloc's future energy strategy. Encompassing everything...

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