News Digest Item
25 Jan 2018

EU guarantee programme could make renewables cheaper in Central and Southeastern Europe

Agora Energiewende

The EU could significantly reduce the financing costs of developing its renewable energy potential by setting up a guarantee programme, according to a study by energy think tank Agora Energiewende*. “One euro of public funding would leverage 50 euros of private investment into wind and solar energy projects,” Agora said in a press release. “The programme would help EU member states with high financing costs to develop new renewable energy projects faster and cheaper.”

Find the press release and study in English here.

*Like the Clean Energy Wire, Agora Energiewende is a project funded by Stiftung Mercator and the European Climate Foundation

All texts created by the Clean Energy Wire are available under a “Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC BY 4.0)” . They can be copied, shared and made publicly accessible by users so long as they give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made.

Journalism for the energy transition

Get our Newsletter
Join our Network
Find an interviewee