EREC and  ESHA Press Releases on Renewable Energy issues

• EREC-release on the Green Paper ‘A European Strategy for Secure, Competitive and sustainable Energy for Europe

Brussels 08.03.06 EREC welcomes the debate, but sees the paper as a missed opportunity for outlining a sustainable EU energy supply

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• EREC News Release on the Commission's Communication "The support for electricity from renewable energy sources"

Brussels 07.12.2005

EREC welcomes the excellent analysis of the Commission's communication - but thinks that a 2007 review is not necessary!

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• EREC Press release on Beijing Renewables Conference

8 November 2005

Beijing Renewables Conference sends strong signal but declaration still weak, says EREC

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• ESHA: Prioritasing Small Hydropower Research. proposals for a Europen R&D Strategy for the Small Hydropower Sector

October 2005 Press Release

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• EREC Press Release on the European Parliament vote on renewable energies in the EU

29th September 2005 Download

• EREC: RES heating & cooling: "40 organisations call for an EU Directive to promote RES heating & cooling"

7 April 2005 Download

• Joint Press Release EREC and Others : "Despite rhetoric, Commission spends less on RE research than 4 yeas ago"

25 March 2005 Download

• EREC Position Paper on the future of support systems for RES-e

26  January  2005. This Position Paper incorporates the ideas of EREC and its Members, the European renewable energy industry, trade and research associations about the evaluation later this year of the Directive on the promotion of electricity from renewable energy sources, adopted in 2001.

• EREC: Renewables industry calls for a separate budget line in FP7 programme

6 January 2005. Transparency is the important issue when looking at energy R&D funding. Renewable energy R&D funding has been declining - a drop of 40-50% in real terms for the EU-15 Member States since the 1980s. Funds to conventional fuels outstrip that of renewables. FP7 is the EU's Framework programme for R&D funding, and runs from 2007-2010. More detail on energy R&D funding in this EREC briefing.

• EREC: Effective Competition in conventional power?

November 2004. Download