The European Union (EU) has significantly ramped up and brought forward its solar deployment targets as part of its updated REPowerEU strategy, redesigned to combat the bloc’s reliance on fossil fuels, and in particular Russian gas.
The European Commission (EC), which released its EU Solar Energy Strategy alongside the REPowerEU strategy today, is now targeting 320GWac/400GWdc of solar PV by 2025 and almost 600GWac/740GWdc by 2030, although this is still short of what some states and industry organisations have called for.
Previous drafts of the strategy had aimed at around 300GW of solar by 2028 and 500GW by 2030, as reported by PV Tech last week.
Referencing its objective to dispel its dependency on Russian gas, the EC said “solar energy will be the kingpin of this effort” as it called for a “massive deployment of solar energy”. This means that, over this decade, the EU will need to install, on average, approximately 45GW per year, well above what it currently is.
The strategy can be read in full here.
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