RePowerEU plan

On May 18, 2022, the European Commission (EC) unveiled a more detailed version of the REpowerEU plan to end Russian energy imports before 2030. As part of the plan, the EC proposed to increase the renewable energy share target from 40% to 45% in all sectors by 2030, in the revised renewable energy directive (RED III), under the Fit for 55 package. In the published RED III, the overall renewable energy targets was eventually increased to 42.5% with an additional top-up of 2.5% which EU member states (MS) should strive to achieve in their overall energy consumption.

The REpowerEU plan was first proposed on March 8, 2022, as a way of cutting EU member states’ dependency on Russian fossil fuel, by diversifying the supply of gas from non-Russian countries and reducing the use of f