Does Europe Have a Handle on Its Energy Future?

Deck: 

Leaders or Laggards

Fortnightly Magazine - October 2018
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"The fight against climate change will not be won or lost in diplomatic discussions in Brussels or in Paris.
It will be won or lost on the ground and in the cities where most Europeans live,
work and use about eighty percent of all the energy produced in Europe." 

- Jean-Claude Juncker, President, European Commission, September 2015.

 

Sitting in The Edge, the building in Amsterdam that has been called the smartest office space ever constructed, it appears that Europe has a leg up on the rest of world in the transition toward a cleaner, more efficient electric-power sector.

Not only do the solar panels for this building create more electricity than it consumes. But the building's computer systems can recognize your car, assign you a workspace for the day, and remember how you like your coffee prepared.

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