According to the position of the Association of Private Energy Employers, a member of the Lewiatan Confederation – to achieve climate neutrality by the EU by 2050, dynamic development of energy based on renewable energy sources is necessary.
According to the ZPPE, the long-term ambition of the EU should be to strive for development based on renewable energy. The union notes that European Commission analyzes show that raising the climate target by 2030 to 55 percent would require a much higher share of renewable energy than 32 percent. agreed in the current framework until 2030. At the same time, EC estimates based on the National Energy and Climate Plans (KPEiK) submitted by member states indicate that the EU will not fully achieve the 32% renewable energy target, but may even reach 1.6 percentage points.
Increasing the share of renewable energy in the energy mix by 2030 is necessary to achieve higher reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. But just increasing the reduction target is not enough, and a thorough assessment of the target assumptions and policies supporting the implementation of climate and energy policy should be an integral part of the 2030 impact assessment. It would be worth considering to re-evaluate the current draft reduction targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. – notes Dorota Zawadzka-Stępniak, director of the energy and climate change department of the Lewiatan Confederation.
The Confederation notes that renewable energy costs have dropped significantly in recent years. Therefore, in her opinion, it is crucial to include these cost reductions in modeling the energy system made for the needs of the transformational path scenarios being developed up to 2030. As Lewiatan points out, for offshore wind energy, production costs have decreased by around 65 percent over the last decade.
According to employers from Lewiatan, the current assumptions regarding renewable energy sources, including offshore wind energy, should be reviewed in the context of assumed energy costs in order to better adapt it to current market data, including RES results.
According to the Confederation, the main obstacle to the implementation of renewable energy is currently the lack of investment in transmission networks in Europe.
It would therefore be necessary to assess infrastructure needs, including an analysis of the expansion of the network necessary for offshore wind energy and to determine how the priorities in current infrastructure legislation (in particular in the TEN-E Regulation) correspond to renewable energy implementation scenarios –adds Dorota Zawadzka-Stępniak, director of the energy and climate change department of the Lewiatan Confederation.