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Autumn 2022 European Energy Innovation
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Integrating solar energy into
Europe's build environment
By Sean Kelly, MEP (pictured)
Renovation of the EU’s building stock is a key Green Deal priority, but since this designation, the
landscape in Europe has changed. We have faced, and overcome, the worst pandemic in 100
years, the economic consequences of which will have lasting implications, but also a war on our
doorstep that has fundamentally changed the trajectory of the energy transition and caused a
crisis in security of our energy supply.
his has caused inflation meantime we must do everything we approach from the international
to skyrocket and soaring can to mitigate the effects of the crisis. community.
energy prices for consumers,
Tsignificantly affecting millions However, in reacting to the crisis Climate change on the other hand
of EU citizens, business and the we must trade one dependency for has not gone away; it poses an
economy more broadly. We have to another. The war poses an immediate existential problem for the human
face the reality that things may get an acute danger that will require race and the effects are plain
worse before they get better, but in the a comprehensive and cooperative to see. One only has to look at
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