WindEurope warns: Don’t tamper with market rules!

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The current crisis highlights the need to improve Europe’s energy security. Which means more renewables ASAP. The EU and national governments clearly get this. Germany’s Finance Minister Christian Lindner recently called renewables “freedom energies”.

Next week’s EU Commission paper on energy prices is a great chance to plot the course that will deliver the rapid expansion of renewables and energy security. The Commission knows the biggest bottleneck to the expansion of renewables is the complex rules and procedures that exist across Europe for the permitting of new wind and solar.  Enforcing the EU deadlines for permit decisions that came into force last year is of paramount importance.  As is the... ... More: Official Press Release WindEurope

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