The regulation stipulates that European countries must build electric and hydrogen charging stations of various capacities at specific intervals. The main question is: when and with what funding will this charging infrastructure be built? There are concerns that building a charging network will not be economically viable for Latvia, as GDP per capita in Latvia is significantly lower, and consequently, the solvent demand is lower than in more affluent European countries. Population density and traffic intensity in Latvia are also significantly lower than in Western Europe. Unless the number of alternative energy vehicles in Latvia increases significantly, no company will want to develop this infrastructure without subsidies from European or Latvian taxpayers. In a recent "Politico" discussion (https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1dRJZlzenNaKB), an event sponsored by the German concern "MAN" in which I also participated, it was evident that a representative of the German e-mobility group "ABB" was lobbying for the electric vehicle business, seeking to introduce their proprietary standard charging sockets and charging station technologies across Europe, thereby securing a massive market for themselves throughout Europe. For such players, this alternative refuelling infrastructure regulation will provide fabulous revenues, but we will largely be on the paying side.

(...) Another major unknown is the new EU legislation that will classify the "greenness" of private investments – the so-called taxonomy, i.e., an industry classification that determines in which sectors investments will be considered green and in which they will not. The European Commission will have to develop something like "Cabinet of Ministers regulations" (in EU terminology – delegated acts) that will determine whether nuclear energy and gas are green energy or not. France, where 70% of electricity is produced by nuclear power plants, Finland, Poland and the Czech Republic believe that nuclear energy must certainly be included in the taxonomy as green energy, and several Mediterranean countries, as well as Germany and Poland, believe that during the transition period, gas could also be included in the list of green energy as a resource that produces relatively low emissions. By building new gas pipeline connections, Poland will be able to reduce the share of coal in energy production, which produces more emissions than gas.