- EU countries are considering watering down the European Commission’s plan to ditch Russian fossil fuels, known as REPowerEU, including scrapping a proposed 45% renewable energy target for 2030.
- The amendments made by EU countries to the European Commission’s REPowerEU proposal, tabled in May, could impact the speed of renewable energy deployment.
- Other changes include allowing EU countries to choose whether to include hydropower plants in go-to areas and expanding the definition of go-to areas to include “land (including surfaces and subsurfaces) and sea or inland water areas that are particularly suitable to develop renewable energy projects”.
EU countries eye scrapping 45% renewables target: document
