With the RES Directive 2009/28/EC (European Commission 2009) the EUcommission has opened for the possibility for the EU countries to jointly reach theirRES targets for 2020. The directive contains three different mechanisms: statisticaltransfer, joint projects and joint support schemes. Where statistical transfer is a simpleex-post transfer of RES credits, the joint project gives countries with relatively scarceRES resources (user country) the opportunity to develop and invest in RES incountries with relatively abundant RES recourses (host country). Finally, in the caseof joint support schemes countries – two or more – agree on a common supportscheme, either covering the entire RES portfolio or only specific technologies orregions. However, only few countries actually have engaged in cooperation due to anumber of barriers one of which has been the lack of targets post 2020 constituting anuncertainty regarding the future value of RES. Recently the European Commissionhave suggested targets for 2030 (COM(2014)15) where an overall target for the EU of27 %. However, the Commission also state that national targets will not be specifiedtherefore not eliminating the uncertainty regarding the value of future RES. In thisarticle we analyse a specific set up with joint support schemes as a solution to theproblem of lacking future targets. We analyse the issue of preserving the cheap RESresources for own future target fulfilment and investigate how the common tradablegreen certificate system with Sweden and Norway as participants addresses theseissues. Finally, we consider if joint support schemes can be implemented to a largerscale in the EU based on the solutions in the Swedish-Norwegian case..
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