Solar Rollout Rouses Resistance in Europe's Countryside

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% :Germany is Europe's leader in solar power, which generated around 9% of the country's electricity last year.
59% : The EU has proposed legislation that aims to accelerate permitting for all kinds of renewable energy projects, part of a sweeping effort to end Europe's dependence on Russian gas.
56% : The European Union is relying heavily on solar power to hit its renewable energy targets and blunt the impact of Russia's natural-gas cutoff.
56% : "The volumes of renewable energy are limited by this land," said Xavier Barbaro, chief executive of Neoen, one of France's largest solar-power developers.
45% : "Many of the challenges our project development faces in finding land are related to reservations towards solar power, bureaucracy or the grid," she said.

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