What Is Community Choice Aggregation (CCA)?

What Is Community Choice Aggregation (CCA)?

What is CCA? The Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) programme provides local governments with the powers to buy and manage energy on behalf of citizens and businesses [1]. For example, it enables local governments to create an electrical buying organisation to...
Energy Taxation Directive

Energy Taxation Directive

The following article is part of the Fit for 55 series, which analyses all the policies, directives part of the fit for 55 package presented by the Commission in the summer of 2021. This paper shall assess the revision of the Energy Taxation Directive (ETD) [1]. The...
Remote Working: Better for the Environment? – Part 3

Remote Working: Better for the Environment? – Part 3

Advantages A key advantage of remote working, aside from the potential environmental benefits, has been the increased flexibility that working from home has given many employees [1]. In a study on the impacts of working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic, Xiao et...
Remote Working: Better for the Environment? – Part 2

Remote Working: Better for the Environment? – Part 2

Increased domestic emissions? Working from home increases domestic energy consumption [1]. For instance, the International Energy Agency (IEA) found that a day of working from home could increase household energy consumption for heating and electrical appliances by...