That is why the second leg of the commission's energy strategy, a strategic review also unveiled this week, is so important.
The parliament's rapporteur on the energy strategy - Polish centre-right MEP Lena Kolarska-Bobinska - said cross-border energy infrastructure such as grids and pipelines needed to be extended.
One is Russia's state-led energy strategy.
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Under the National Offshore Wind Strategy, the U.S. Department of Energy wants to have 10, 000 megawatts of offshore wind generating capacity by 2020 and 54, 000 by 2030.
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Facing such intense global competition, and with Recovery Act funds poised to expire soon, sending U.S. clean energy markets off a clean tech funding cliff, the U.S. is in dire need of a long-term clean energy investment strategy to regain economic and technological leadership in this new growth sector.
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Such a strategy will inevitably contribute to skyrocketing energy prices, erode U.S. energy security and force an unnecessarily complicated and costly transition to newer technologies that have not been fully developed.
The federal government has started to address the need for green technician and efficiency retrofit training, such as with the Green Jobs Act, but it has not implemented an education strategy to keep the U.S. at the leading edge of energy science, technology, and entrepreneurship.
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It's going to be solved by a sustained, all-of-the-above energy strategy.
Mr Jones outlined the strategy's intentions which include boosting the success of life sciences, promoting energy saving and partnering academics to ensure that only quality research goes forward.
And that's why we've got to pursue an all-of-the-above energy strategy that includes investing in more biofuels and more fuel-efficient vehicles, and more solar power and more wind power, and more people going back to work building cars and homes and businesses that are more energy efficient than the ones that we've got right now.
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The energy secretary told MPs nuclear power was a "key part" of government's strategy towards a low-carbon future, but stressed it was only "part of the answer".
But an energy strategy that focuses only on drilling and not on an energy strategy that will free ourselves from our dependence on foreign oil, that's a losing strategy.
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"From transport systems to energy use and health, this demonstrator will play a key part in the government's industrial strategy and give real insight into how our cities can be shaped in the future, " he added.
Its strategy is determined by the UK's legally binding EU target of achieving 15% of total energy from renewable sources by 2020.
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