Featured in Triple Green – 01-2010

The European renewables roadmap

Roadmap 2020: The European Commission allotted a special role for photovoltaics in its Strategic Energy Technology Plan (SET plan) for 2020. Here, an overview of the European roadmap to renewable energy is presented.

In the run up to the 2009 UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen, the European Union (EU) had committed its member states to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by at least twenty percent by 2020. Photovoltaics are to play an important role in this plan: in ten years, 20 percent of the European electricity supply shall be …

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