It’s time to wind down the reliance on fossil fuels.
Wind energy is renewable and abundantly available in the EU and its industry creates economic growth and green jobs.
This is why today we proposed a Wind Power Action Plan to maintain wind power a European success story.
It will:
→ speed up permitting procedure for projects on wind energy
→ help the industry access finance
→ ensure a fair international environment for our companies
→ train skilled workers
@EU_Commission awesome! Are there also similar plans for solar and other green energy sources?
We desperately need more infra across the EU to make green energy and decentralization of energy production possible; I've seen entire neighborhoods in NL having to wait months if not years just to get power to their schools and public facilities, because they got solar panels on the roof, and there wasn't any space on the local nets to give back all of that energy.
The infra is the main bottleneck 🔌
@EU_Commission Will it also make sure Europe won't end up destroying biodiversity and ecological corridors and native rights in eg. Lapland when building the wind power infrastructure? Speeding up permitting procedures in a situation where there's a kind of a gold rush going on for wind power seems like a short-sighted idea. I think that in a situation like this, making very sure that all projects are actually sustainable, both from an ecological and social point of view, is extremely important.
@EU_Commission EU tells Gulf countries "we want to buy your product, we want you to invest heavily in infrastructure to secure our access to oil, we want you to invest billions if not trillions into it... but by the way, in less than 10 years time our plan is to completely abandon your product." -- Ask yourself, WHY would any gulf country go along with that? And then ask yourself why is there an oil and cost of living crisis? ... 🤔
Wind power lobbyists must be doing a great job! Let's get rid of carbon-eating trees and put plastic-spewing windmills up instead!
@EU_Commission
UK need not apply ☹️
