Renewables must compete, German suppliers to tell EU's Piebalgs
London (Platts)--25Apr2005
Green energy sources must compete with other fuels if the EU is to guarantee functioning power market competition across the bloc by the summer of 2007, the association of German power suppliers (VDEW) said Monday, citing a speech its president plans to deliver to the EU energy commissioner in Brussels Tuesday. "Fairer competition in Europe is a pre-requisite for a functioning internal European energy market and that applies to the support of renewable energy sources as well," VDEW president Werner Brinker plans to tell commissioner Andris Piebalgs. Brinker will urge the commissioner towards the harmonization of support systems for renewable energy in Europe. A uniform European market for renewables would bring huge gains in efficiency, he said, adding it was doubtful whether national support schemes--such as Germany's renewable energy law--would be compatible with the principle of free movement of trade on full power market opening on July 1, 2007. This story was originally published in Platts European Power Alert http://www.europeanpoweralert.platts.com
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