Competitiveness of the renewable energy sector.

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The upcoming renewable energy package, consisting in the revision of the Directive 2009/28/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23.4.2009 on the promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources and amending and subsequently repealing Directives 2001/77/EC and 2003/30/EC and including a bioenergy sustainability strategy, together with other ongoing initiatives on electricity market design, Energy Union governance, heating and cooling, and electricity interconnection, will create the conditions to ensure delivery of the renewable energy target. Back in 2014, DG Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs commissioned a study of the competitiveness of the renewable energy industry. Today, it is instrumental to assess which are the economic and societal impacts for the sector as a whole, not limited to the power supplier, on the entire society. Such a study will be a supporting document for the discussions to follow the adoption of the revised Renewable Energy Directive.