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Under the leadership of Maros Sefcovic (second from the right), the steering committee of the EU energy platform met for the first time in Brussels. (Image: European Union, 2023)
Brussels (energate) - The steering committee of the EU Energy Platform has met in Brussels for its first official meeting. The body of high-ranking representatives of the member states will coordinate a joint gas purchase. For this purpose, it will bundle the demand of large gas consumers. EU Commission vice-president Maros Sefcovic has invited industry representatives, for example from the ceramics, chemicals and fertiliser industries, to discuss their participation in the platform on 25 January. "We are working to a tight schedule to prepare in time for the next winter and the new storage season," Sefcovic said, according to an EU Commission statement.
He had therefore asked member states to quickly contact key market players at national level to identify who should participate in the platform and to be able to determine gas volumes and delivery locations. "The aim is to publish the total demand in order to invite offers at the beginning of spring and then make the first joint purchases before the summer," the Commission vice-president explained. The steering committee will next meet in February. /tc
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