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How will Cyprus achieve a higher share of renewables?

Cyprus has set out to attain a higher share of renewables, and this roadmap helps to assess op-timal investment strategies in the power sector. Solar PV and wind power will play a major role in the roadmap to 2030. Roadmap findings will play an important role to revise existing energy policies and develop new ones.

What if Cyprus does not have a natural gas supply?

As explained in Section 3.1.3, in the absence of natural gas supplies and hydrogen infrastructure, diversification of energy supply for Cyprus is equivalent to accelerating the use of renewable energy, and the relevant gaps have been addressed in the previous paragraphs. d. Reducing fossil fuel consumption in industry

Why is repowereu not relevant for Cyprus?

The two other main areas of REPowerEU – diversifying energy supply and reduction of fossil fuel use in industry – are less pertinent for Cyprus for the reasons explained below, hence the relevant investments and reforms are included under the areas of energy savings and renewable energy.

Which repowereu areas are most relevant for Cyprus?

As a result, a list of potential investments and reforms is provided at the end of Chapter 3.1 for each one of the main REPowerEU areas that are particularly relevant for Cyprus – energy savings, renewable energy deployment, sustainable mobility, and energy interconnections.

What is Cyprus' energy supply?

Cyprus’ total energy supply consists by 85% of fossil fuels, of which petroleum products dominate. Some diversification will happen once the Cyprus LNG import terminal is in operation, so that most of the thermal power plants will run on natural gas.

Can a long-term energy planning model be used in Cyprus?

In order to examine options for economically optimal deployment of renewable energy in Cyprus under diferent scenarios, and to un-derstand the potential impact of key policy decisions on the power generation mix, a long-term energy planning model of the cur-rent power system in Cyprus was deve loped.