Money earmarked to build a second interconnector should have instead been used to increase renewable energy capacity and strengthen the local electricity grid, ADPD believes. Carmel Cacopardo called on the government to dramatically increase its renewable energy targets and aim to generate 50 per cent of the country’s power from renewable sources by 2030. The current target – 11.5 per cent – is the EU’s lowest and has already been reached. “We will have to pay, either through taxes or directly, the true price of energy from foreign sources, if Malta does not drastically increase its share of renewable energy in its energy mix,” the Green Party chairman warned. Cacopardo was speaking during an ADPD press conference held in Birzebbuga, close to a recently-inaugurated solar farm. ADPD held a press conference close to the Freeport on Saturday morning. He was accompanied by ADPD secretary general Ralph Cassar, who expressed concern that the government seemed to have ignored warnings about blanket subsidies on energy being unsustainable. Zero progress on zero-carbon Instead of pushing to transition to green sources of energy that are locally produced, the government – and Maltese MEPs...
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