On 5 December, Members of the Cleantech Friendship Group Lídia Pereira, Thomas Pellerin-Carlin, Barry Andrews, Michael Bloss, Pascal Canfin, Paulo Cunha, Niels Flemming Hansen, Sara Matthieu, Susana Solís Pérez, Kai Tegethoff, Bruno Tobback and Andrea Wechsler sent a letter to the European Commission and to the Council urging it to recognise clean and innovative grid technologies as a strategic priority in the upcoming Grids Package.
In the age of electrification, grids have a central role to play. But Europe’s energy system is under tremendous pressure, with an aging grid infrastructure struggling to keep pace, sky-high energy prices and major climate and security concerns. Consequently, grids are the new frontier for industrial competitiveness and resilience: the infrastructure that will determine Europe’s energy-independence and security, economic competitiveness, and climate ambitions.
Clean technologies can help solve this generational challenge. By embedding innovation into every Euro spent, Europe can make its grids more cost-efficient and resilient to enable electrification in a way that is socially just and boosts EU competitiveness. Deploying clean grid technologies at scale will amplify the impact of financing, lower consumer costs, and accelerate connection of renewables and clean industries.
A forward-looking Grids Package can ensure that the clean technologies developed and manufactured in Europe are the ones that power its future.
Read the full letter for more here.
