How to expand renewable energy after 2020

Author: Stephen Tindale

Price FREE Publisher Centre for European Reform Publication date 07 December 2012 ISBN

Publication synopsis The EU should set targets for renewable energy for 2030 and the end of each subsequent decade, to reach full reliance on renewables by 2060. The policy brief argues that: The EU should set targets for renewable energy for 2030 and the end of each subsequent decade, in order to reach full reliance on renewables by 2060. This would support rather than undermine nuclear power and carbon capture and storage, by emphasising their role as necessary low-carbon ‘bridge technologies’; The European Commission should continue to promote the trading of renewable energy between member-states. This would strengthen the economies of struggling eurozone countries. And the EU should support renewable projects in North Africa; The EU should adopt mandatory standards for all forms of bioenergy. Produce from land that was previously used to grow food should not count towards renewable energy targets.

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