EURELECTRIC NEW SECRETARY GENERAL SAYS EU RENEWABLE ENERGY AMBITIONS ARE UNREALISTIC
June 1st, 2007
BY CHRISTOPHER JONES, in BrusselsTHE EUROPEAN Commission could be making the cost of producing greener energy more expensive and artificially distorting Europe's energy mix into the bargain, according to the new secretary general of Eurelectric, the group that represents the electricity industry at the European level. Commenting on the Commission's new proposals for tackling climate change, Eurelectric's secretary general Hans ten Berge warned that the setting of targets for renewable energy sources - which Brussels wants to see increase to 20% of the energy mix ...
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