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The EU's renewables energy directive, agreed in principle last week, leaves the door open to nuclear-derived hydrogen, but under conditions that are so challenging that some industry observers say they are impossible to meet.
Agreement on the EU’s renewable energy directive brings to a close an 18-month process to upgrade the bloc’s climate policies as part of work to achieve a 55% net reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030.
Revisions to the long-debated European Union Renewable Energy Directive (RED) have been approved. Those policies still support the burning of wood pellets to make energy, despite evidence of harm to forests and climate, say NGOs.
Paris may have forced Brussels into a concession on nuclear’s role in renewables, but it’s at the expense of a lot of goodwill.