Expansion of renewable energies – nothin • Table.Briefings

Auf dem Foto zu sehen ist Markus Pieper: Berichterstatter für die Erneuerbare-Energien-Richtlinie — Dr. Markus Pieper MEP, Parliamentary Secretary of the CDU/CSU Group and Rapporteur of the European Parliament for the Renewable Energy Directive.

On September 13, the EU Parliament will vote on the new Renewable Energy Directive. Unlike before, this time Brussels is not just calling for „higher, faster, further“ but is also showing how this can be achieved more cheaply and with less regulation. But the member states must also pick up the ball, writes EPP rapporteur Markus Pieper.

At a good 24 percent of final consumption, the EU has almost twice the global average share of renewables today. But recently there has been little progress, looking at wind power: global expansion was 17 percent in 2022 compared to 2021, but only nine percent in the EU. Why is Europe slowing down?

Expansion of renewable energies – nothing is impossible

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