Biomass generates most jobs in renewable energy sector

Biomass Magazine June 2009
By Anna Austin
Posted June 3, 2009, at 1:17 p.m. CST

Biomass, wind and hydro are the most important technologies to generate jobs under the EU’s Renewable Energy Directive, according to a study recently conducted on behalf of the European Commission’s Directorate-General Energy and Transport.

At the end of 2008, the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union agreed on the RED, which commits EU member states to achieve a 20 percent share of renewable energy in the country’s energy consumption by 2020, and to cut carbon emissions 20 percent by 2020.

Several different economic models were used for study assessments, including input-output model MULTIREG, which was used to observe the effect of developments in the renewable energy sources (RES) sector on other economic sectors.

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