EU Energy Chief: Green Transition Is Why We’re Better Positioned to Deal with Iran Crisis than We Were in ‘22

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JORGENSEN: “On the grids package, the biggest bottleneck as I see it, potentially, in the green transition in Europe is that we don't have the transmission. I mean, we do deploy every year record numbers of new renewables. The year before last, it was 78 gigawatts. Last year, we haven't got the numbers yet, but I expect it to be close to 90. This year, we'll probably break records again. This is all good, and this is one of the reasons why we're better situated at dealing with this crisis than we were in '22. But if this is to continue, and not only continue, but actually if we actually want to speed up this process, we need to fundamentally also speed up the enlargement of our grids, the deployment of new grids, the flexibility of the ones we have, and this is why we put forward a grids package.”