Cañete demands faster green energy shift |

Cañete demands faster green energy shift https://t.co/qRfFWzAFmB

First published on Ends Europe Miguel Arias Cañete made the call while making a speech at the fourth annual EU Energy Summit in Brussels. He said the uncertain international geopolitical situation made it more pressing for EU policymakers to push ahead with plans to finalise the EU’s Clean Energy Package and work towards an ambitious energy transition. In "an increasingly uncertain world", he said, the EU was still heavily dependent on fossil fuels and the energy transition remained the EU’s "strategic answer to the geopolitical uncertainties we are facing". He added that the EU’s energy import dependency on natural gas was a challenge, as 76% of the EU’s gas imports came from just two countries in 2016 — Norway and Russia. In contrast, the EU’s oil and coal are imported from around the world from multiple suppliers. Cañete said the EU had learned its lessons from the gas ...

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