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The European Union is gearing up to release emergency measures for a full-scale gas supply shock on Wednesday, with a leaked memo calling for a range of potential actions, from a controversial cap on gas prices to the creation of a new buyers’ “cartel”.
Solar costs have plunged by more than 80% over the last decade, but the technology produced only 5% of EU electricity in 2020.
The European Commission wants to install over 300 gigawatts of photovoltaics by the middle of this decade.
Some MEPs have called on the EU to set up a pandemic-type emergency recovery fund to battle the "energy emergency", but the Commission is reluctant so far.
On the agenda for the plenary session: EU protection of children and young people fleeing the war against Ukraine, Council and Commission statements on the 6th IPCC report, vote on pay transparency, ongoing hearings under Article 7(1) TEU regarding Poland and Hungary, the situation of women in Afghanistan, the right to repair, TEN-E rules.