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German industry calls on Greece to aid EU energy revolution
Oct 5, 2011, 17:18 GMT
Berlin - The Federation of German Industries (BDI) on Wednesday highlighted Greece's potential to produce solar energy and said that a European energy revolution was 'urgently needed', during an interview with dpa.
'We need to put in capital where there are the largest yields for renewable energy,' said BDI Director General Markus Kerber in Berlin.
It would make more sense to pursue this instead of investing billions in German solar subsidies, where there are fewer hours of sunlight, he said.
Greece until now had relied more on coal as a cheap source of electricity, and this was to blame for its lack of progress in developing renewable energy sources, he added.
EU Energy Commissioner Günther Oettinger (CDU) is pressing for a harmonization of European green electricity production.
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