Council regulation: renewables receive short-term acceleration (Update)

Last week, we published an analysis of the leaked Council regulation proposal that addresses the bottlenecks in permitting procedures that hamper faster renewables deployment in the EU. The European Commission then presented the  third emergency measures proposal to the European Council on November 9. Compared to the preliminary version obtained by Greenfact, the public version goes a step further.

Namely, the European Commission wants to reduce the permitting times for the repowering of renewable energy plants from one year to six months, including environmental assessments. The permitting times for heat pumps, solar installations and grid connections for repo...