EU ENERGY COMMISSIONER ANDRIS PIEBALGS INTERVIEW
October 1st, 2006
BY DAVID HAWORTH, in Brussels, and KEITH NUTHALL
1. One of the EU's difficulties is that few new power stations are being built. How might a common energy policy meet this deficiency as regards renewable energy and CHP, given that national governments seem reluctant to ensure more capacity?
Europe has already started a policy on the promotion of renewable energy and CHP with the adoption of three directives on renewable electricity, biofuels for transport and the promotion of cogeneration. Full transposition of these directives into national law will ...
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