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The Clean Energy Package – RED II

Monday, 12 December 2016

Håkon Grepperud

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The most important aspects at a glance

  • No binding national RES 2030 targets; however, national 2020 targets have been set as a baseline.
  • New criteria for the establishment of RES support schemes.
  • Implementation of procedural rules to accelerate RES permitting and repowering.
  • Cancellation of priority grid access for new RES installations.
  • Binding RES targets for the heating and cooling sector.
  • Renewable self-consumers are entitled to sell their excess production to other consumers without being treated as energy supplier (even when using the public network!).
  • New sustainability criteria for bioenergy.
  • Extension of the energy savings requirement to 2030.
  • Member States who decide to fulfil their energy saving obligations by way of "alternative policy measures...

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