Everyone in Europe should have access to affordable energy.
Through the Citizens Energy Package, we’re taking concrete actions and helping EU countries to put them into practice:
⚡ Lower energy costs, clearer bills, and easier switching between suppliers
🏡 Support energy communities and self-consumers
📉 Reduce dependence on fossil fuels and limit exposure to price volatility
🛡️ Fight energy poverty and protect vulnerable households
Stop this oil, coal, nuclear bullshit and bring renewables. It's so stupid.
in fact, absolutely not, you need years to get it and you have to pay billions.
@TheOneSwit @kubofhromoslav @EUCommission
Doesn't Germany have a lot of Nuclear power-plants that are just inactive?
(correct me if not)
For a while, this would be a great way to decrease the energetic issues, wouldn't it?
So while we'd stabilize the energetic situation, we could then start doing something with that megameters of unused space on building roofs by installing solar panels or having there plants.
@The_Universality @kubofhromoslav @EUCommission
yes we have, and they are old and ineffectiv so they have to be renewed for billions, and we have no company who would run them, no clue where to put the waste, no skilled workers, and we would need stuff from russia. And it would take 20 years plus.
Well, after 50 years they fall apart. Things dont run forever. France has a lot of nuclear, how is it going?
We closed them mostly because they are old and the reparation would cost billions for old and outdated buildings.
Solar and Wind we can do now. without a problem.
1) Let's not replace Arab oil with Russian uranium.
2) Let's not pretend nuclear is suddenly economically sensible when it stays expensive while renewables and storage keep getting cheaper.
3) We need clean energy now, not some experimental SMR in ten years.
@oliver_schafeld for those interested, some links with figures in addition:
The recent ”Lazard’s Levelized Cost of Energy+ (LCOE+)“ report (Lazard is a ”financial advisory and asset management firm“):
https://www.lazard.com/research-insights/levelized-cost-of-energyplus-lcoeplus/
A 2020 report on the lcoe in the EU (i.e. pre Russian invasion in Ukraine):
https://energy.ec.europa.eu/document/download/012b89c7-d98b-4dc6-89c4-2941828a84ad_en?filename=final_report_levelised_costs.pdf
@EtherealResonance @EUCommission
where did it became that?
@TheOneSwit @EUCommission a good while ago it became safe. Unsure how clean but at least its not throwing out CO2.
The Japanese did reuse nuclear waste btw. Making it possible to not have only more out of it, but also make the waste not dangerous. This was still a decade ago. So it is safe and clean. If a person uses it in a stupid way, it can become dangerous.
@EtherealResonance @EUCommission
Maybe there is a way to do it supersafe and with minimal waste, that way would be the most expensive, and we all know what those companys think about expensive rulings or regulations.
@EtherealResonance @EUCommission
but they dont pay for it, we pay the storage with taxmoney. And you cant extract until it's nothing left. There is allways waste left.
@EtherealResonance @EUCommission
how much less for how much what?
@kubofhromoslav , we are taking action here:
-Renewables: our energy policies (Fit for 55 and REPowerEU) are driving deployment of renewables.
-Batteries: Battery Booster Package of EUR 1.8-billion to scale up European battery manufacturing.
-Nuclear: Last year, we changed our State aid rules to expand support for nuclear fission and fuels, and just last week we presented the New European Strategy for Small Modular Reactors.
@EUCommission, yes, great, in fact I kind of know. My reaction was more a frustration about society, not a critique of EC.
And thanks for responding! Evidently, here we are in more human relation than on the similar, but comercial site 😊
@EUCommission "Reduce dependence on fossil fuels and limit exposure to price volatility" ❤️
Please do it, we need to be fast and effective
(Edit: I've been corrected that this isn't possible within reasonable time nor cost)
"📉 Reduce dependence on fossil fuels and limit exposure to price volatility"
- Then please force Germany to start their Nuclear power-plants again. The energetic crisis was partly caused by Germany turning their Nuclear power-plants down. It is not the most ideal source of energy due to nuclear waste, but is clean (production-wise) in comparison to fossil fuels and produces much more energy.
Yes! And special thanks goes to #germany for helping us decrease our reliance on fossil fuel
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/dec/16/eu-water-down-landmark-ban-new-petrol-diesel-cars
@Voyageur_Pragmatique I know there are very many germans dissapointed by this also. Sorry for generalizing ;)
Also I -as a dutchman- have take partial resposibility. The EU commissioner who loves to please these lobyists is dutch too. His name is Wopke Hoekstra and kind of a windbag in my honest opinion.
@EUCommission Cyprus desperately needs this because we have some of the highest electricity rates in Europe but are amongst the lowest earners…..
And the one and only Electricity Supplier has a monopoly. Start here please.
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