Some of the EU’s millions of euros of energy aid to the developing world could be spent on gas projects, EU Development Commissioner Andris Piebalgs has told EurActiv. But biofuels, nuclear and coal energy will not be funded. “I cannot exclude that we will be in gas, particularly gas flaring projects,” Piebalgs said on 16 April. “We would like to support a very clean energy mix [and] in some cases gas could be supported. At least I would not exclude it a priori.” But “no nuclear,” he stressed. “It’s very clear, and I would say also no coal. Our intention is not to look at biofuels [either].”
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