PV MARSHALL PLAN FOR EUROPE

摘要

The new Constitution of the European Union asks in art. 52 for a budget in balance and in art. III-157 for energy security and the development of additional renewable energy sources. How can we reduce the national debt and promote renewable energies? With the PV Marshall Plan for Europe, photovoltaics (PV) is promoted in the EU25 with an energy levy of 0.5 ?cts./kWh on non-renewable energies. 50% of the levy totalling 61 bio. ? will be invested for PV, 25% for other renewable energies and 25% for a rational utilisation of energy. All PV installations will be promoted with an average contribution of 25%. Further contributions from regions/Laender or cities are possible. After an introduction period, the revenues of this energy levy will lead to an installed PV power of 20'400 MW per year with an annual energy production of 17.34 TWh. Other renewable energies and the rational utilisation of energy will furthermore lead to a production of about 540 TWh/year. This reduces CO2 emissions by 166 Mio. T per year. After the introduction period, investments in the PV sector would amount to 122 bio. ? per year. Together with investments in other renewable energies and in a rational utilisation of energy, total investments of 390 bio. ? per year would be generated. This would result in about 8 Mio. New jobs (in person-years) and therefore in a costreduction for the unemployment insurance of appr. 90 bio. ? per year. If the energy levy of the PV Marshall Plan is furthermore combined with a cost-covering electricity feed-in regulation, energy production as well as investments and jobs could be increased even further and CO2 emissions reduced massively.