The EU commitment to renewables
The commitment to renewables signed by the different European Union countries by 2022 it is bearing satisfactory results only in some member states. According to an information note from the EU statistical office, Eurostat, in 2014, the share of energy from renewable sources in the final consumption of raw energy it reached 16.0% in the European Union (EU), almost double that designated for 2004 (8.5%).
If we focus on the graphics contributed, the country with the highest proportion of growth in the sector of renewable energy is Sweden, and the lowest is in Luxembourg. Since 2004, the proportion of sources based on renewables in gross final energy consumption it grew significantly in all Member States. Compared to a year ago, it has increased in 24 out of 28 Member States.
With more than half (52.6%) of the energy coming from renewable sources In gross final energy consumption, Sweden had by far the highest share in 2014, ahead of Latvia and Finland (both 38.7%), Austria (33.1%) and Denmark (29.2%) . At the opposite end of the scale, the lowest proportions were recorded in Luxembourg (4.5%), Malta (4.7%), the Netherlands (5.5%) and the United Kingdom (7.0%) .
Although each EU Member State has its own objective and commitment in renewables by 2022 (Recall of the national objectives take into account the different starting points of the States, the potential of the renewable energy and economic performance). Among the 28 EU Member States, a third have already reached the level necessary to meet your 2022 goals nationals: Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Croatia, Italy, Lithuania, Romania, Finland and Sweden. On the other hand, Denmark and Austria are less than 1 percentage point from reaching 2022. At the opposite end of the scale, France (8.7 percentage points from reaching their 2022 national target), the Netherlands (8.5 pp), the United Kingdom (8.0 pp) and Ireland (7.4 pp), are the furthest away.
In January, the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) indicated in an information note that …"Spain joins the small but growing list of countries that are lagging behind in binding renewable energy commitments at the community level by 2022" or he comments on it in the article on this same portal renewable energies in Spain, where we emphasized that we are currently in a situation of palpable energy weakness in a country that due to weather conditions should represent the opposite.
It is curious, and as a fact, that from the United States they complain about the advances in the field of renewables with titles such as "The biomass boom in Europe is the destruction of America's forests." Where it is indicated that, given the strict requirements of therenewable energy in the European UnionWhere coal-based power plants are being forced to use biomass fuel, swaths of forests in the southeastern United States are being cut down to fuel the biomass boom across the Atlantic.
Eurostat information note… HERE.
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