EU Countries Moving To 100% New Energy
Five EU countries call for 100% renewable energy by 2050
Sam Morgan, March 5, 2019 (EURACTIV)
“The European Union’s 28 energy ministers had their first public debate on the European Commission’s 2050 climate plan…[and] five member states derided the lack of a 100% renewable energy scenario…[The Commission’s Clean Planet for All strategy] offers EU countries eight different emission-cutting scenarios to make Europe’s economy compliant with the Paris Agreement on climate change by mid-century…[Luxembourg said six of the eight scenarios] as inadequate to stick to the Paris deal…[and the other two options, which aim for net-zero emission cuts by 2050, lack] transparency…[It was joined by Austria, Ireland, Lithuania and Spain in saying] the lack of a 100% renewable energy option is also problematic…
Some energy experts have actually already done that work for the Commission and modelled their own examples of pan-European and even global energy systems that run exclusively on renewables…[and agreed] it will be difficult to have a proper debate about 2050 without a 100% scenario…[because] technology is going to change by 2050…Researchers from Finland’s Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT) recently unveiled their own model of a 100% system, which would involve 20 independent European regions or ‘islands’ connected together through a ‘super grid’…” click here for more
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