09/05/2022 (Agence Europe) – More than 500 companies sent a letter to the European Commission on Thursday 5 May urging it to include solid biomass and biofuels in the final version of its ‘REPowerEU’ plan, due on 18 May, to move the EU away from its dependence on Russian fossil fuels. “We are concerned about the lack of vision within the REPowerEU proposals from the EU Commission, which do not include solutions that can offer a rapid reduction of this dependency, such as an array of bioenergy applications, waste for energy, and district heating”, says the letter, coordinated by Bioenergy Europe, an association representing the European bioenergy industry. According to the signatories, bioenergy is a readily available indigenous solution that can be applied in the short term to make a substantial contribution to achieving the EU’s 2030 and 2050 targets. See the letter: https://aeur.eu/f/1jx (DG)