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| Original language | English |
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| Publication status | Published - 29 Apr 2016 |
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- renewable energy
- fossil free energy
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T1 - Why EU renewable energy figures are misleading
T2 - Europe requires 150% renewable energy to become fossil-free
AU - Visser, Martien
PY - 2016/4/29
Y1 - 2016/4/29
N2 - The EU is confident it will reach its target of 20% renewable energy by 2020. But according to Martien Visser, professor at the Hanze University of Applied Sciences in Groningen (The Netherlands), this 20% is in reality more like 14%. This is because a large part of our energy consumption is simply ignored in the calculations for renewable energy. “Even with 100% renewables, we would still need a lot of fossil fuels”, Visser notes.
AB - The EU is confident it will reach its target of 20% renewable energy by 2020. But according to Martien Visser, professor at the Hanze University of Applied Sciences in Groningen (The Netherlands), this 20% is in reality more like 14%. This is because a large part of our energy consumption is simply ignored in the calculations for renewable energy. “Even with 100% renewables, we would still need a lot of fossil fuels”, Visser notes.
KW - renewable energy
KW - fossil free energy
KW - hernieuwbare energie
KW - fossielvrije energie
M3 - Web publication/site
ER -