EU LONG TERM ENERGY STRATEGY EASES AWAY FROM RENEWABLE ENERGY TARGETS
April 1st, 2013
A EUROPEAN Commission green paper on the EU’s medium-term energy strategy looking ahead to 2030, suggests that renewable energy might not need to be protected by growth targets in future. These have been a key plank of EU energy policy to 2020, but Brussels’ paper on ‘A 2030 framework for climate and energy policies’ noted renewables would be more mature in the next decade and “competing increasingly with other low-carbon technologies,” such as carbon capture and storage.“Consideration should also be given to whether an increased renewable share at ...
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