Energy ministers from eleven European Union countries, led by Austria, on Tuesday formed an alliance to push back attempts by France and others to count nuclear energy towards the bloc's renewable energy goals.
The stand-off comes a day before EU countries and lawmakers are supposed to agree tougher EU targets to expand renewable energy by 2030 - a key part of the bloc's plans to slash CO2 emissions and wean itself off Russian gas.
Eleven countries, led by Austria and including Germany and Spain, on Tuesday met to discuss their push to keep nuclear energy out of the renewable targets. They say mixing nuclear into the renewable energy law would distract from efforts to massively expand wind and solar. On the other side of the debate, French energy minister Agnès Pannier-Runacher convened a meeting of around 10 pro-nuclear countries including the Czech Republic, Romania and Poland, which are pushing to count "low-carbon hydrogen" - hydrogen produced from nuclear energy - towards the renewable goals.
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