According to the report published by Greenpeace on 21 September, renewable energies, besides being a source of employment, can compete with fossil energies. The technological infrastructure of renewables and fossil fuels are similar, as the report says, so there is a real basis for substitution. In one of the scenarios presented by Greenpeace, renewables can replace fossil and nuclear energy by 2050.

This line would amount to an investment of around EUR 1.4 billion per year, but by 2030 it would create 9.5 million jobs in solar energy, the equivalent of what the coal industry currently has. Wind energy, for its part, would generate 7.8 million net jobs, twice as much as those in the oil and gas industries.

According to Greenpeace, the only thing that is needed is political will to realize the theoretical situation that the report puts on the table.

It must be borne in mind that at the moment 80% of our energy expenditure is covered by fossil sources.