Oxford professor of energy Jan Rosenow: 'I do not accept the analysis behind the rollback narrative that the only way to bring prices down is to roll back green policies. That’s nonsense' (Photo: Jan Rosenow)

Interview

Why electrification, not repealing green laws, will save Europe's industry

Green Economy

by Wester van Gaal, Amsterdam,

European industry has been battered by high energy prices, competitive pressure from China and tariff threats from the US, and political regrets about the Green Deal.

But for Oxford energy professor Jan Rosenow, one of Europe’s leading experts on industrial electrification, the idea that decarbonisation is driving deindustrialisation is “simply wrong.”<...

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Green Economy Interview

Author Bio

Wester is a journalist from the Netherlands with a focus on the green economy. He joined EUobserver in September 2021. Previously he was editor-in-chief of Vice, Motherboard, a science-based website, and climate economy journalist for The Correspondent.