8 October 2024 – The competitiveness of European industry and its interdependent relationship with decarbonisation sits at the centre of the European Union’s policy agenda, as put forward by Commission President Von der Leyen’s political guidelines and the European Council Strategic Agenda 2024-2029. The fundamental relationship between competitiveness and decarbonisation pathways is also advocated by Mario Draghi’s report...
In the wake of the European Council’s call for a new Competitiveness Deal and Enrico Letta’s report on the Single Market, and ahead of the European Parliament’s vote on the Net Zero Industry Act on Thursday, 24 leading cleantech scale ups, investors, industry associations and think tanks – including EUREC – have signed an open...
12 March 2024 – The NECPs will, as the European Commission noted, need a “renewed and stronger focus on competitiveness, innovation and investments within the Energy Union.” With the Net Zero Industry Act agreed and set to become law by the time final version of NECPs must be submitted (30 June 2024), Member States should,...
To achieve the green transition, the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP) needs to be redesigned to incentivise Member States to invest. The current reform proposal on the table, however, falls short of the EU’s ambition to achieve the green transition. To address this shortcoming, seven organisations including EUREC have signed an Open Letter which...
The European Commission, Council and European Parliament all agree that “Member States shall ensure that building owners, tenants and managers can have direct access to their building systems’ data” and that “At their request, the access or data shall be made available to a third party.” This is good; it allows building owners, tenants or...
EUREC previously released two reports in support of the European Parliament’s proposed amendment to the Renewable Energy Directive (“RED III”) calling for at least 5% of new renewable energy capacity to be of innovative renewable energy technology. This important and timely idea will speed up the commercialization of new, high-quality, European-made renewable energy technology across...
The European Parliament voted on Wednesday, 14 September in favour of a 45% target for renewable energy in the EU’s energy mix by 2030 as part of the Renewable Energy Directive (RED III), paving the way for negotiations with the member states in order to finalise the text before the end of the year. The...
EUREC has long been keen to support measures to promote digitalisation and data sharing in the renewable energy space (i.e. through our Special Issue) and our DG Energy event this past February). We have therefore organised a statement to endorse data-friendly amendments to the upcoming Renewable Energy Directive revision (RED III). MEP Eva Maydell (EPP)...
ETIP PV — of which EUREC is a Secretariat partner — has developed a Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA) which focuses on solar PV technology as a prominent aspect of the EU’s commitments to its clean energy targets and global sustainability goals. PV technology has already proven to be economically and environmentally competitive...
The ‘draft report’ of amendments to the Renewable Energy Directive proposed by MEP Markus Pieper (CDU, EPP) has been published and can be found here. Dr Pieper is the Member of the European Parliament who will lead the process to create and negotiate that institution’s position on the Directive. Explaining his amendments in a...
Alongside MDPI Energies and under the editorial leadership of EUREC board member Andrea Michiorri (MINES ParisTech), EUREC is coordinating a Special Issue Journal focused on energy digitalisation and data to be published in September 2022. The objective is to bring solid peer reviewed research material and results to European digitalisation policy, particularly influencing the “Action...
EUREC has collaborated with Future Cleantech Architects in a policy summary for EU lawmakers on measures to integrate support for high-impact innovation in the Renewable Energy Directive revision (RED III). In particular, the document recommends specific sub-targets for innovative RES within the renewable energy targets in RED III. The summary also includes support for data...
EUREC Secretary General Greg Arrowsmith has a new op-ed in Science Business which calls for greater support for technological innovation and data sharing in the European Commission’s updated Renewable Energy Directive. Read the article here There is also a German version of the op-ed available in PV Magazine Deutschland; read the German version here.
The EUREC Secretary General and 15 other leaders of renewable energy organisations signed a joint letter to the European Commission’s Executive Vice President Timmermans and Commissioner Simson to call for a European-wide risk mitigation scheme in the upcoming reform of the Renewable Energy Directive. The scheme would allow for economies of scale to de-risk renewable...
