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The great EU solar manufacturing reset

“We need to bring manufacturing back to Europe and the [European] Commission is willing to do whatever it takes to make it happen,” EU Energy Commissioner Kadri Simson said at the opening of SolarPower Summit 2022. Her words rocketed around the solar community, boosting share prices and invigorating the European solar industrial mission, writes SolarPower Europe CEO Walburga Hemetsberger, as she lays out the actions needed for solar-power EU energy independence.

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pv magazine

06 May 2022

Source: SolarPower Europe

The words “whatever it takes” emerged as an EU rallying cry when uttered by then-president of the European Central Bank, Mario Draghi, in the face of the 2012 European sovereign debt crisis. It is fitting that EU Energy Commissioner Kadri Simson’s words would recall a moment of extraordinary EU response to unprecedented crisis, as today …

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