The EU and its Member States have made a clear commitment towards renewable energy sources (RES) and their large-scale penetration and have in recent years created a number of RES policy initiatives, which provide a suitable framework for the development of markets for renewable energy technologies (RET). As far as R&D is concerned, Europe has a long track record mainly through Community programmes in Renewable Energy related R&D, which forms the basis for the outstanding industry development in this area. However, the market uptake of these R&D results is not always happening in the best possible way and therefore needs to be improved. Lack of information and limited use of synergies between stakeholders are still the key critical barriers towards RET market deployment.

Creating markets for renewable energy technologies a EU RES technology marketing campaign | RESTMAC | Project | Fact Sheet | FP6 | CORDIS | European Commission