EU energy commissioner calls for new renewables targets
- by Joe Iles
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Gunther Oettinger, the EU Energy Commissioner, has called for new renewable energy targets, to enable businesses to plan ahead.
Current targets run out in 2020, but on Thursday Oettinger introduced a new EU energy roadmap to 2050, which showed that opting for a very high renewables component to the energy mix would be no more expensive than opting for alternative scenarios that placed more emphasis on nuclear power or coal and gas with carbon capture and storage.
At the launch of the roadmap, Oettinger said “Only a new energy model will make our system secure, competitive and sustainable in the long-run.”
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