McGlade argues that the huge investment required to modernise energy infrastructure demands a Europe-wide agreement on the future of energy, without which countries and companies were unlikely to be able to embark on such a process, the paper reports.
A unified energy policy would help combat the short-term approach of many member states, according to McGlade, saying that a far-reaching overhaul of the system would include a move away from centralised power stations towards distributed generation.
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