For the past year or so we’ve ignored most proposals for renewable energy protectionism coming out of the EU, because we regarded them as not credible. To take solar power as an example all measures have been feeble one way or another, like leaving Uyghur sanctions enforcement up to member states, with too many words and too little money stumped up. Full reshoring of solar would need a few tens of billions of dollars of state backing. On May 27th the European Council adopted the Net-Zero Industry Act (NZIA), which requires us to comment on it – but from what we can see, nothing has changed. The Act features targets of manufacturing production capacity equal to 40% of demand by…