EU renewable energy

Under the European Green Deal, the EU has set ambitious targets to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions progressively up to and beyond 2030 with the ultimate aim of reaching net zero emissions by 2050. To achieve this, the EU is currently developing and implementing a legal and policy framework for a climate neutral, ‘clean’, energy system, centred around renewable electricity and renewable hydrogen coupled with improved energy efficiency. The EU clean energy transition—outline outlines the various limbs of this clean energy transition framework. This outline forms an introduction to a suite of detailed content on the clean energy transition, comprised of the following Practice Notes:

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EU clean energy transition—energy system integration—this Practice Note tracks the progress and implementation of the key actions contained within the Commission’s strategy for energy system integration, launched in 2020. The Commission’s intention is that the EU strategy on energy system integration will, in synergy with the new dedicated strategy on hydrogen, ensure that the EU’s ambition to reach net-zero by 2050 can be achieved and increase EU energy security. The broad goals of the strategy are to build

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