Аннотация
The paper presents an overview of the COVID-19 impact and related trends with the development of the renewable energy facilities in the rural regions of the EU and globally.A short summery of the pre-pandemic situation with the available renewables and their potential development based on the publicly available sources in the rural regions of the EU is presented.Development of the renewable energy facilities in the rural regions will be considered as the correlations with the migration trends change after 2020.Migration analysis and the potential demand for the renewable energy will be calculated for the specific region, as well as the renewable energy capacity potential of the region.Technical barriers with the renewable energy development in such situation will be highlighted.The proposed problem solution studied in the paper and shortlisted: renewable energy sources (RES) type should be selected based on the regional features; industrial energy storage system should be applied; grid interconnection and unit commitment problem are critical to be solved.We found that the COVID impact should boost the renewable energy development in the rural regions in the EU, but such growth cannot be realized without the technical problem solving and proactive governmental support.