On Tuesday 25 October, the European Parliament’s Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI) adopted a draft opinion by Nils Torvalds (Renew Europe, Finnish) to exclude small hydroelectric power plants from future “areas suitable for renewable energy deployment”.
Proposed in May by the European Commission as part of the REPowerEU plan (see EUROPE B12955A4, B12949A2), this concept aims to stimulate the deployment of renewable energy by defining renewable go-to...