EU Commission Proposal for a Directive on Security of Gas Supply
Article from: OGEL 2 (2004), in Energy Union, EU Energy
Introduction
During the last two years, California, New York, Toronto, Copenhagen, Rome and more recently London experienced unplanned power cuts creating various degrees of chaos in the countries and cities affected. Whilst the outage in the United States and Canada affected almost 50 million people over a 24-hour period, the European blackouts lasted generally only a few hours with the exception of Italy, where the power failure lasted a day and affected the entire country. With this and the growing importance of natural gas for the energy supply of the European Union in mind, it seems ...