Dinner with Megan Richards, Director of Energy Policy, DG ENER, European Commission

2017-12-11 | Beijing

Prior to the EU-China Renewable Energy Workshop which took place in Beijing on 12 and 13 December, Director Richards met with the European Chamber to get insights about the difficulties European companies face in the energy sector in China. During the meeting, the members pointed out the difficulties for China to reduce coal and the infrastructural problems preventing the effective integration of cleaner sources of energy into the market. In addition, market access barriers, the dominant position of SOEs in the energy sector, as well as the difficulties for foreign enterprises, particularly SMEs, to find a breakthrough into the Chinese market were mentioned too.