Tag Archives: subsidies

voestalpine Calls for Continued Electricity Price Compensation to Protect Austria’s Energy-Intensive Industry

(IN BRIEF) voestalpine AG has urged the Austrian federal government to ensure fair competition for Austria’s energy-intensive industries by continuing to use electricity price compensation, a measure already utilized by many EU countries. The company emphasizes that this compensation is … Read the full press release

Spanish €260M scheme to finance terrestrial digital platform operators found incompatible with EU State aid rules

Brussels, 20-6-2013 — /europawire.eu/ — The European Commission has concluded that a Spanish €260 million scheme to finance the digitisation and extension of the terrestrial television network in remote areas of Spain was incompatible with EU State aid rules. The measure favours … Read the full press release

KfW and Federal Environment Ministry launch new renewable energies programme entitled “Storage” to promote use of energy storage in solar PV installations

Loans and repayment subsidies for energy storage batteries in grid-connected solar PV systems Aim is to improve integration of small-to-medium solar PV systems into the electricity grid Scheme opens for applications on 1 May 2013 22-4-2013 — /europawire.eu/ — Under a … Read the full press release

The European Commission to investigate the proposed UK video games tax relief

Brussels, 18-4-2013 — /europawire.eu/ — The European Commission has opened an in-depth investigation into the proposed UK video games tax relief. The objective of the measure is to provide an incentive to video games developers to produce games meeting certain cultural criteria. … Read the full press release