Boosting renewable energies in Europe
Remscheid, 28 November 2005
German European Parliament MP Herbert Reul visited the Vaillant Group in Remscheid today to exchange information and opinions on renewable energies. Klaus Jesse, Managing Director Vaillant Germany, and Rainer Schild, head of R&D Renewable Energies, briefed him on the continual growth over many years of Vaillant's renewable energy product programme such as solar thermal technology, heat pumps, block-type thermal power stations and, since about one year ago, photovoltaic installations.
Together with Andreas Lücke, of the German Building and Energy Technology Association (BDH), and Udo Wasser, of the European Heating Technology Association (EHI), they discussed the current and future possibilities of promoting renewable energies in Europe in general and Germany in particular. They focused in particular on a planned new European Commission directive in support of these technologies. The EU objective is to increase the share of regenerative energies in household heating and hot water supply from a current level of about 4 per cent to 12 per cent in 2010 to reduce consumption of fossil fuels and generation of CO2 emissions harmful to the climate.
All participants agreed that further and considerable efforts must be made to achieve this goal and use the potential of regenerative energies sufficiently. Herbert Reul said: "What's important for me is that it is not temporarily modish technologies that are promoted, but solutions that really make sense in the long term." Klaus Jesse fully agreed with him, saying: "We shall achieve the desired effects only if the heating system in the house is seen in its entirety and not merely single system components are promoted by public funds. To achieve the desired energy-saving effects on a sustainable basis we need a modernisation of the entire heating technology systems."
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