News Digest Item
20 Jul 2016

“Renewable Energy in the European Electricity Market – Germany and Greece in the Focus for Renewable Energy Growth”

Fraunhofer ISE / National Technical University of Athens

Intensified cross border connections and the increased transfer between European electricity markets could help reach EU climate targets, according to a study by Fraunhofer ISE and the National Technical University of Athens. With the cooperative project RES-DEGREE, researchers investigated how European climate targets can be met and analysed how this affected the share of renewable energy on the European electricity market and the cross-border electricity transfer between countries. They found that countries in both southern and central Europe would profit from a stronger cross-border transfer and called for its intensification.

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