Support For Renewable Energy Continues To Grow
When asked to choose which kind of energy supply you would want to power your home what would you say? Coal, oil, gas, nuclear? Not very sexy, huh? It seems the people of the European Union support by a wide majority wind and solar power as their perfered energy supply of the future.
from here
EU citizens largely favour renewable energies while only 20 percent are for nuclear energy, according to a new European Commission survey.
The Eurobarometer study - published on Monday (8 January) just two days ahead of the publication of the commission’s major EU energy plan – shows that 80 percent of EU citizens back solar energy while 71 percent are in favour of wind energy.
The Danes are most in favour with 95 percent and 93 percent saying solar- and wind energy, respectively, is a good thing.
More than 20 percent of the electricity used in Denmark is generated by wind turbines - the highest percentage of any country in Europe.
At the other end of the spectrum, 70 percent of Latvians and 63 percent of Italians are in favour of solar and wind energy, respectively.
Other sources of popular renewable energies include hydroelectric and ocean energy favoured by 65 percent and 60 percent, respectively, of EU citizens.
- Posted in : Environment, Pictures, Renewable Energy
- Author :The Naib
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[...] The Germans are not playing around when it comes to renewable energy. Much like Portugal Denmark, and other European countries they are pushing forward with aggressive plans to integrate large amounts of renewables into their energy grids. The fact that these countries are pushing for such high renewable energy targets seems to put to rest the myth that you can not have a large or even majority of your energy from renewable sources. [...]