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Raffaele Piria

@piria.bsky.social
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Working since 25 yrs for energy transition and climate mitigation. Living in Berlin, grown up in Italy. Love mountains, literature, people's stories.

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Raffaele Piria @piria.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Je voudrai bien le savoir...
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Raffaele Piria @piria.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Ich möchte nichts an der AFD bagatellisieren. Aber Beispiele von rechtsextremen Parteien, die moderater geworden sind, nachdem sie an der Macht gekommen sind, gibt es einige, u.a. Fratelli d'Italia und Lega in Italien. Sympathisch sind sie mir nicht geworden. Aber objektiv gesehen weniger radikal.
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Raffaele Piria @piria.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
There is nothing left-wing in supporting the fascistoid, imperialistic Putin regime.
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Raffaele Piria @piria.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
New parliament in Sachsen Anhalt, gender balance: AFD: 47M / 2F CDU: 13M / 2F BSW: 3M / 2F SPD: 4M / 4F Greens: 4M / 4F Left: 4M / 4F And, yes it has to do with energy and climate policy, though it's not the worst aspect of yesterday's election.
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Raffaele Piria @piria.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Is it possible to get access to the the entire text behind the pay wall? Please DM me if so.
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Raffaele Piria @piria.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Congratulations, Kees! What a ride!
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Raffaele Piria @piria.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
⚠️ EU Methane Regulation Art 27: the Case Against a Grace Period - Why the ordinary enforcement regime does not endanger EU energy security ⚠️ There is no basis for a “grace period” for Art27 violations, as proposed in a leaked draft: Downloaded the paper: www.ecologic.eu/20531 @ecologic.eu
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EU Methane Regulation Article 27: the Case Against a Grace Period
This paper argues that there is no plausible basis for the introduction of a “grace period” in respect of infringements of Article 27 of the EU Methane Emissions Regulation (EUMR), as proposed in a re...
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Raffaele Piria @piria.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Roland, I had precisely the same thoughts. I try a synthesis: the strategy of saying stupid things may be clever for a while. But in the long run makes one stupid and self-damaging. It took the Hitler regime 8 years to get to this point. Trump's regime is already there.
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Raffaele Piria @piria.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
US Secretary of Energy is pretty confident to be immortal
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Raffaele Piria @piria.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
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Raffaele Piria @piria.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Secretive US-CEE Gas Supply Security Joint Statement signed on 24Feb by US National Energy Dominance Council with 12 European countries. European #energysecurity or acquiescent subordination to US #energydominance? Read our critical review published today: www.ecologic.eu/20433
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European Energy Security or Acquiescence?
This paper reviews a secretive Joint Statement (JS) on Gas Supply Security to Central and Eastern Europe that was signed in Washington, D.C., on 24 February 2026 on the sidelines of meetings organised...
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 16/03/2026
"Iran, which is completely defeated, is disrupting the Strait with the navy and missiles we've completely destroyed and that is unacceptable because it is making the oil price go up, which is good actually, and NATO which I do not support needs to come rescue us immediately. Thank you for your a..."
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Raffaele Piria @piria.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Impressive report about widespread and partly successful popular resistance against mass deportations by ICE in several US cities.
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Raffaele Piria @piria.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
@ketanjoshi.co @marcogiuli.bsky.social @matthiasdeutsch.bsky.social @frape0101.bsky.social @matthiasduwe.bsky.social @gabrielecassetti.bsky.social @andygheorghiu.bsky.social
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Raffaele Piria @piria.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
@greenpeace.eu @edfenergyex.bsky.social @wwf.eu @constzerger.bsky.social @jschwartzkopff.bsky.social @tabeapottiez.bsky.social @saschamk.bsky.social @rakraemer.bsky.social @benjamingorlach.bsky.social @constelz.bsky.social @stijncarton.bsky.social @louisevanschaik.bsky.social @szulecki.bsky.social
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Raffaele Piria @piria.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
9/10 Assuming a country punishes the driver with severe fines, permanent withdrawal of the driving licence and imprisonment: Would anyone seriously claim that the strict penalty regime makes driving in that country an unmanageable risk for motorists? @ecologic.eu @umwelthilfe.bsky.social
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Raffaele Piria @piria.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
8/10 ... each time killing or injuring several people and causing massive havoc, without ever braking or calling for help, and systematically refusing to cooperate with the authorities afterwards. ...=>
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Raffaele Piria @piria.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
7/10 Unlikely that gas & oil industry lawyers haven't noticed this. What these lobbies do is unfounded scaremongering. An analogy makes this point clearer: Incurring the max penalty would be akin to ... repeatedly driving drunk at 120 km/h through an extended pedestrian zone ... =>
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Raffaele Piria @piria.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
6/10 This can't happen by mistake. Companies can easily avoid to incur in those conditions by making even a limited effort to mitigate methane emissions. In the unlikely case fines are set at a maximum level unlawfully, they can be challenged in court. ...=>
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Raffaele Piria @piria.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
5/10 To incur in the max penalty the breach should be 1) unequivocally intentional 2) exceptionally serious with persisting effects The company responsible would need to 3) do nothing to mitigate/remedy damage 4) repeated infringements 5) display full lack of collaboration with authorities ...
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Raffaele Piria @piria.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
4/10 The EU-MER requires that MS authorities imposing fines must consider a series of aggravating & mitigating factors, shown on the right side of this chart. For an infringement to incur in the maximum penalty, every aggravating factor would need to be proven at its highest severity. ...=>
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Raffaele Piria @piria.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
3/10 Implicit argument: EU oil & gas importers can't take measures under their control to avoid the risk of incurring in such high fines, exposing them and their suppliers to unsustainable risks, impacting Europe’s energy security. If true, it would be a serious concern. But it's NOT true. ...=>
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Raffaele Piria @piria.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
2/10 Focus on debunking the liability myth: fossil fuel lobbies loudly & repeatedly claimed that the EU-MER's "disproportionate non-compliance penalty provisions" cause "unamanageable" / "severe liability risks", often pointing to the maximum fine level set at 20% of annual turnover. .... =>
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Raffaele Piria @piria.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
1/10 My new report supported by @caneurope.org: 🚡 Overview on EU #Methane Regulation penalty rules 🔍 Debunking “unmanageable liability” myth (see the thread) 📊 State of play of national penalty rules in some MS: good and bad practice ⚖️ How to ensure a level playing field www.ecologic.eu/20270 ...>
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Penalty Regimes for Violations of the EU Methane Regulation in Selected EU Member States
After giving a concise overview of the penalty provisions in the EU Methane Regulation (EU-MER), this paper counters the scaremongering narrative promoted by fossil energy groups that the EU-MER creat...
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Ecologic Institute @ecologic.eu · 04/12/2025
New report on the EU Methane Regulation (EU-MER) by @piria.bsky.social. Supported by @caneurope.org, the report outlines the EU-MER penalty provisions, examines concerns about “unmanageable liability” for fossil fuel suppliers, & looks at national penalty rules in selected MS. www.ecologic.eu/20270
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Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe @caneurope.org · 04/12/2025
🚨Report Launch: Penalty Regimes for Violations of the EU Methane Regulation in selected EU Member States🚨 ✍️ Written by @piria.bsky.social of @ecologic.eu, supported by CAN Europe, it uncovers how clear and robust penalty rules are key for the #EUMethaneRegulation ’s success. 🔗 shorturl.at/odnFA
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Raffaele Piria @piria.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Can anyone imagine his current successor speaking such a polite language, even just for a minute? And I guess if somebody would make a survey among MAGAs to ask when they think America was great, Ike's era might get a good share of votes...
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Raffaele Piria @piria.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
For inspiration, insights and support thanks also to @matsengstrom.bsky.social @neilmakaroff.bsky.social @marghebianchi.bsky.social @marghebianchi.bsky.social @louisevanschaik.bsky.social @matthiasduwe.bsky.social 7/7
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Raffaele Piria @piria.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
👉 A coherent strategy that integrates these elements can cut costs, strengthen resilience, drive decarbonisation, and underpin open strategic autonomy For inspiration, insights and support thanks to @emelines.bsky.social @frape0101.bsky.social @hochfeld.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/simo... 6/7
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Raffaele Piria @piria.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
👉Achieving these goals affordably requires EU-wide infrastructure planning, smart use of green molecules where they are most needed, stronger circularity, and a massive expansion of domestic renewables and energy storage capacities. 5/7
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Raffaele Piria @piria.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
👉 As the #energytransition advances, the core energy security issues shift to power system stability, cybersecurity and industrial resilience. 👉 Unlike fossil fuel supply security, the EU can meet these goals largely through domestic policies. 4/7
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Raffaele Piria @piria.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
👉The EU spent € 1.3 trillions on fossil fuel imports in just three years (2022-24). Thereby funding foreign, and often adversarial, actors. 👉A renewables-based system built on domestic capital stock is inherently more resilient than the legacy system reliant on fossil fuel imports. 3/7
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Raffaele Piria @piria.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
❗Key takeaway: decarbonisation and energy security reinforce each other, if Europe adopts a forward-looking, adaptive strategy. 👉The EU should rethink energy security in light of increasingly renewable, decentralised and electrified energy systems. 2/7
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Raffaele Piria @piria.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
🚨New Publication 🚨 Europe’s #EnergySecurity on the path to climate neutrality. Devising a resilience strategy for the mid-transition. Policy brief by @agoraew.bsky.social and @ecologic.eu I co-authored with 🙏 @marcogiuli.bsky.social Frauke Thies & Krisztina Zálnoky . www.ecologic.eu/20204 👇1/7
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Europe's energy security on the path to climate neutrality
The EU must rethink its energy security in light of increasingly renewable, decentralized, and electrified energy systems. Energy security already benefiting from the early start of the energy transit...
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 30/09/2025
This photo just about sums it up
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Raffaele Piria @piria.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
WHO-Statistik 2019: Alkoholverbrauch in 🇮🇹 8 lt/; 🇩🇪 13,4 (67% mehr!); 🇨🇵12,6; 🇵🇱 11,6; in UK 11,4. Das Verhältnis Wein/Bier ist in 🇮🇹 besser. Bei Ihren Schwiegereltern mag die nette Schwiegertochter den wissensch. unbestreitbaren Alkoholschaden ausgeglichen haben. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
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List of countries by alcohol consumption per capita - Wikipedia
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 11/09/2025
Deeply disturbing rhetoric is spreading from influential MAGA figures (including the President of the United States and the owner of that other website). They have no idea who the shooter is, and many of these same people mocked Democrats when they were victims of political violence in the past. 1/
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
How do any lawyers or legal commentators still say the Supreme Court majority believes “unity executive theory” and rules according to that interpretation? You witnessed years of the same Justices restricting a president only to do the opposite when the White House changed hands. Why help the lie?
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Raffaele Piria @piria.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
the recent drop in the share of collected data appears "just" 3-4 times larger than the temporarily drop in March 2020. What event could have caused the latter 🤔? Could be a rough benchmark for how bad the current administration is
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Kees van der Leun @sustainable2050.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Please remind news media parroting US government inflation statements that those are just Trump regime fantasy numbers since May.
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Raffaele Piria @piria.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
100% richtig, dass Feminismus ein essentieller Beitrag zu Demokratie ist! Warum nicht auch Aktivismus? Nur AKTIVE Demokrat*innen können unsere Demokratie vor dem wohl hyperaktiven Angriff ihrer Feinde retten.
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Raffaele Piria @piria.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
🇷🇴 is 3rd #crudeoil producer in the EU, and EU Member State with most abandoned oil wells. They may continue to emit #methane for decades after the end of extraction. Personal note: 1st time a publication of mine is translated into Romanian @tabeapottiez.bsky.social @jschwartzkopff.bsky.social
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Raffaele Piria @piria.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Today we published two guides to implement the #EUMethaneRegulation. Cutting #methane emissions crucial to slow down global warming in #Czechia and #Romania CZ www.ecologic.eu/20098 RO www.ecologic.eu/20099 Relevant for other EU countries too. Thanks to our partner @cde-cz.bsky.social
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Implementing the EU Methane Regulation in Czechia
The quality of national implementation of the EU Methane Regulation (EU-MER) across Member States is essential for achieving the EU's climate targets and demonstrating global leadership. Methane (CH₄)...
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Raffaele Piria @piria.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Very good points. Just note that nearly all these arguments work even without the global/international dimension. Think of power grids, a smartphone, life-saving health technologies, all infrastructure that makes life in any small.or large city possible. No US state can survive without experts.
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Raffaele Piria @piria.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Do you know simple answers that can realistically work for >8bn people without need for complex systems?
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Reporter ohne Grenzen @reporter-ohne-grenzen.de · 07/04/2025
#Deutschland: Seit dem Aufstieg extrem rechter Kräfte, die offen medienfeindlich auftreten, sehen sich Lokaljournalist*innen zunehmend bedroht. Das zeigt eine neue Studie des @ecpmf.bsky.social und des Bundesverbands Digitalpublisher und Zeitungsverleger (BDZV). www.bdzv.de/service/pres...
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Lokaljournalismus unter Druck: BDZV warnt vor wachsender Bedrohung der freien Berichterstattung
Der Bundesverband Digitalpublisher und Zeitungsverleger (BDZV) ist besorgt: Die freie und unabhängige Berichterstattung steht besonders im Lokaljournalismus unter wachsendem Druck. Eine aktuelle Studi...
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Raffaele Piria @piria.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Refreshing to see many students in deep-red Idaho publicly defending their teacher's decision to hang in the dchool a sign ‘Everyone is welcome here’. But so disturbing that public officers did work to forbid it. youtu.be/Jsn3INWTDGw?...
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Students stand in solidarity with teacher told to remove "Everyone is Welcome Here" poster
YouTube video by KTVB
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Raffaele Piria @piria.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
"The district did not explain how a sign reading “Everyone is welcome here” would be in violation of that law." - The abyss the US is falling into is deeper than many here in Europe are prepared to acknowledge. Read more at: www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/e...
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West Ada teacher stands firm after she’s told to remove ‘Everyone is welcome here’ signs
Sarah Inama said she was told by administrators that her signs “don’t allow people to express differing opinions.”
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Borys Kormych @kormych.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
The US stock market is behaving as if the country is governed by a six-times bankrupt
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Raffaele Piria @piria.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Another sign that we are witnessing a tragedy of epical proportions
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