ontrary to widespread belief, including at the European Commission, the massive uptake of renewable energies since 2005 has had a greater impact on the reduction of CO2 emissions than the economic slowdown.
A small sentence slipped into a report published by the European Commission in November 2012 stated that “the economic crisis was clearly the major cause of a significant reduction in CO2 emissions”.
But the assertion, which has been widely accepted and repeated by policymakers, now appears false.
Renewable energy is blamed for jeopardising Europe's energy security this winter, a new study has found. EurActiv France reports.
The French multinational company Cap Gemini warned in their European Observatory of Energy Markets that energy security in Europe was under threat and that the region could soon be exposed to massive power outages during the winter, due to a lack of production capacity. They blame wind turbines.
