“Given the current uncertainties about the future role of nuclear power, he noted that if Europe follows a ‘low-nuclear, high renewables’ scenario – inline with that presented in the IEA’s Energy Technology Perspectives 2010 – it will require not only the rapid expansion of wind and solar capacity, but also the understanding that a 550 terawatt-hour gap will remain, that must be filled with imports. How clean or secure those imports would be is an open question.” Nobuo Tanaka, IEA Executive Director, on 3 May during a meeting of EU energy Ministers