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Uploaded September 2024 | Updated September 2026, 6 hours ago
Electrification is gaining momentum across many sectors, including transport, buildings and industry, driven by the EU's climate ambition and security of supply. As the cost of renewable energy technologies like solar and wind continues to fall, electrification presents an opportunity to reshape the European economy, enhancing competitiveness and promoting sustainable growth.
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https://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en/document/EPRS_ATA(2024)762859
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Electrification is gaining momentum across many sectors, including transport, buildings and industry, driven by the EU's climate ambition and security of supply. As the cost of renewable energy technologies like solar and wind continues to fall, electrification presents an opportunity to reshape the European economy, enhancing competitiveness and promoting sustainable growth.
See the paper publication behind this podcast:
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en/document/EPRS_ATA(2024)762859
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![What if electrification transformed the EU economy? [Science and Technology Podcast]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/JWjJbUqyvY8/mqdefault.jpg "What if electrification transformed the EU economy? [Science and Technology Podcast]
Electrification is gaining momentum across many sectors, including transport, buildings and industry, driven by the EUs climate ambition and security of supply. As the cost of renewable energy technologies like solar and wind continues to fall, electrification presents an opportunity to reshape the European economy, enhancing competitiveness and promoting sustainable growth.
See the paper publication behind this podcast:
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en/document/EPRS_ATA(2024)762859
🎧 Listen to our podcasts reporting on the latest science and technology developments, looking into the impact they will have on our lives and capturing their policy implications:
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![What if we could make nuclear fusion work? [Science and Technology Podcast]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/JdcRX96xT2Y/mqdefault.jpg "What if we could make nuclear fusion work? [Science and Technology Podcast]
To reach the Paris Agreement objective of keeping the global temperature increase well below 2°C, the EU must consider every possible technology to decarbonise its energy production. Nuclear fusion is the process that powers our sun and we can recreate it on Earth. However, even if we overcome the considerable engineering challenges of designing a fusion power plant, there are hard constraints to upscaling fusion power.
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![Delivery on the green and digital transition: Issues to watch in 2024 [Policy Podcast]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/O96G9dbln3Q/mqdefault.jpg "Delivery on the green and digital transition: Issues to watch in 2024 [Policy Podcast]
📈 Next Generation EU (NGEU) and its centre piece for investment, the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), are the main EU funding instruments for green and digital measures. Against the backdrop of huge investment needs in these strategic policy areas, 2024 marks a crucial phase in NGEU implementation.
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