We call on the EU to adopt the vision of becoming the world's first electro-continent: making the EU the Electro Union by targeting to run a majority of its economy on clean, domestic electricity by 2040.
Agree with the text but is a bit annoyed that yet again biomethane is forgotten.
There is still one Belgian company producing solar panels Belga Solar fyi. Germany used to be leading like 20 years ago in it’s production, maybe they have one there too?
But at this point in time we should be more focusing on electro storage, as most of Europe already has ( 99% Chinese) solar pannels.
Afaik, it will take still some years to extract thre critical components ( Scandinavia), which is currently the bottleneck in the battery proces iiuc.
Batteries might be more important for the near future, but solar panels don’t last forever. Germany does still have solar panel manufacturers, but it’s not necessarily easy/fast to scale this up, plus IDK how well they’re doing with all the control electronics/software - the EU doesn’t have a big chip industry, either.
Yeah, we’ll probably need to scale up critical infrastructure ( and thus our elektro industry) and/or diversify trade, as EU has recently been trying to do.
There is still one Belgian company producing solar panels Belga Solar fyi. Germany used to be leading like 20 years ago in it’s production, maybe they have one there too?
But at this point in time we should be more focusing on electro storage, as most of Europe already has ( 99% Chinese) solar pannels. Afaik, it will take still some years to extract thre critical components ( Scandinavia), which is currently the bottleneck in the battery proces iiuc.
Batteries might be more important for the near future, but solar panels don’t last forever. Germany does still have solar panel manufacturers, but it’s not necessarily easy/fast to scale this up, plus IDK how well they’re doing with all the control electronics/software - the EU doesn’t have a big chip industry, either.
Yeah, we’ll probably need to scale up critical infrastructure ( and thus our elektro industry) and/or diversify trade, as EU has recently been trying to do.