Too little emphasis on heating and cooling in new draft on EU energy strategy
European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium (source: flickr/ Francisco Antunes, creative commons)
Francisco Rojas
27 Feb 2015
Geothermal can play an important role in the energy mix for heating as well as cooling in Europe and therfore have more emphasis in comparison to fossil fuels in the EU's future energy strategy.
In a very lengthy post in Euractiv and opinion piece covers the draft of the new EU energy strategy and a realisation that there is very little attention paid to renewable heating and cooling and a clear focus on traditional fossil fuels.
Nigel Cotton’s post on the aforementioned source state that “In mid-January, Miguel Arias Cañete, the Climate Action & Energy Commissioner, supporting President Juncker’s priority on Europe’s Energy Union, told the International Renewable Energy Agency that he was “committed to make Europe the world’s number one in renewables”. But the 6th February conference on the Energy Union in Riga failed to talk about renewable heating and cooling solutions to any extent, and leaks of the Energy Union paper suggest the emphasis will just be on using fossil fuels as efficiently as possible, which will only delay the deployment of renewable technology that is proven and available.”
An energy policy without looking in its crucial heating and cooling element is not sufficient. With about half of all energy demand being heating and cooling, it becomes essential to look at sources of energy for those purposes. Geothermal in that regard can play an important role in the energy mix and this particularly for heating, as well as cooling in Europe. Geothermal therefore needs to be part of any energy strategy as part of a new EU energy policy.
To read Mr. Cotton’s full post, please follow the link below.
Source: Euractive
