Will We Compete with the EU in Energy?
| Tuesday 03 Nov 2009, by Ron Reynolds |
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The European Commission recently published a European Strategic Energy Technology Plan (SET-Plan). It identifies the six most important technologies required to meet climate-change and energy-supply goals, providing detailed road maps with specific targets for the year 2020 and more general outlines for 2050. Importantly, it also links to their regulatory plan and positions at the upcoming major climate-change conference. A couple of quotes from Commission’s Communication, which accompanied the report, are insightful. ”Markets and energy companies acting on their own are unlikely to be able to deliver the needed technological breakthroughs within a sufficiently short time span to meet the EU’s energy and climate policy goals.” That is, you can’t depend on markets alone when time is important. Locked-in investments and vested interests lead to slow change. Also, “[the plan] sets our vision of a Europe with world leadership in a diverse portfolio of clean, efficient and low-carbon energy technologies.” The EU positions the investments as an opportunity, not a burden. Continue Reading »
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