Claude Turmes | Security Of Supply

Jean-Michel Glachant - Director of the Florence School of Regulation, interviews Claude Turmes, MEP on European energy security of supply. Recorded at the International Energy Agency in Paris, 28 April 2016 Claude Turmes has been a leading influence in European energy policy for more than 15 years, he is a Green MEP for Luxembourg and a member of the European Parliament’s Committee on Industry, Research and Energy. “I think our biggest [security of supply] problem in this moment is over capacity, we have so much coal and nuclear running despite the fact that we have deliberately decided to bring a lot of renewables to the system” “(On gas security of supply) In Europe we optimised already our grid system and our methodology and our ability to deal with a crisis after the 2004-6 crisis with Russia and Ukraine, and now the issue is more to get pressure on member states… it is good that we work on the Gas security supply legislation which the European Commission proposed, but the bigger picture is how do we avoid too much political damage”