On 30 November 2016, the European Commission published a proposal for the recast of the Renewable Energy Directive (RED), providing a potential outline of the Union’s renewable energy framework for the timeframe 2021 to 2030. This proposal is also known as the “RED II proposal”.
The new proposal sets the overall target of a renewables share in the EU’s energy consumption at 27% by 2030 and includes the sectors electricity, heating and cooling as well as transport. Several of the new provisions, e.g. a cap of fuels produced from food or feed crops to max. 3.8%; and the ambitious goals for advanced biofuels have been commented on and discussed by a multitude of stakeholders.
As a whole, according to the nova-Institute research (attached file) on the question of how the revisions in energy policy will impact the bio-based material sector, the proposal can be seen as an attempt to assemble a wide range of support mechanisms for a multitude of energy forms under one roof. The first-ever comprehensive inclusion of CO2-based fuels means that the available support will be spread between more forms of energy supply than before, which are less dependent on biomass.
The table summarises the nova-Institute results. A more detailed commentary on the RED II proposal is available for free at www.bio-based.eu/policy
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12 April 2017
