2023-06-17 01:31:53
EU states settle dispute over renewable energy law
After France recently blocked the planned law on the expansion of renewable energies, an agreement has now been reached.
Negotiated for weeks: Since some ammonia plants can be excluded from the target calculation for renewable energies, France could use more nuclear power in the future.
Photo: Dirk Sattler (IMAGO)
The EU states have settled the dispute over a planned law to expand renewable energies. As the German State Secretary Sven Giegold announced on Friday evening, after weeks of renegotiations, France negotiated that some ammonia plants can be excluded from the calculation of targets for renewable energies. This could allow France to use nuclear power for a larger proportion of ammonia production. The gas ammonia can be used as an energy source.
The planned EU regulations stipulate that by 2030, 42.5 percent of the energy consumed in the EU must come from renewable sources such as wind, solar or hydroelectric power. The voluntary target is to reach 45 percent, which should help the EU achieve its climate targets.
Annually 17 soccer fields photovoltaic and 20 wind turbines
So far, the EU target for the share of renewable energies in total energy consumption by 2030 was 32 percent, with a Europe-wide share of almost 22 percent being achieved by the end of 2021, according to Giegold.
Annually, the law means the installation of 100 gigawatts of wind turbines and solar systems across Europe, explained Giegold. Converted, that corresponds to 17 soccer fields of photovoltaics, 16 wind turbines on land plus four wind turbines at sea every day.
In addition, plans call for 42 percent of the hydrogen used by industry to come from renewable sources by 2030 and 60 percent by 2035. However, countries that consume particularly low levels of hydrogen from fossil fuels such as oil and gas and meet renewables deployment targets can replace 20 percent of their share of renewable hydrogen with hydrogen from other energy sources – including nuclear power.
France had recently blocked the project that had already been negotiated with representatives of the EU Parliament.
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