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Energy: renewables, many CEE countries reached their targets

Among them Bulgaria, Czechia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania

13 February, 17:31
(ANSA) - BELGRADE, 13 FEB - Seven Central- and Eastern European EU member countries have already reached their Europe 2020 renewable energy national targets, show data made public by Eurostat today. "Each EU Member State has its own Europe 2020 target" and the "national targets take into account the Member States' different starting points, renewable energy potential and economic performance," Eurostat recalled.

Among the EU Member States, 11 have already reached the level required to meet their national 2020 targets, including Bulgaria, Czechia, Estonia, Croatia, Lithuania, Hungary, Romania, with Latvia and Austria are around 1 percentage point away from theirs 2020 targets.

In 2017, at the top in Europe for energy coming from renewable sources, Sweden (with 54.5% of the total) followed by Finland (41.0%), Latvia (39.0%), Denmark (35.8%) and Austria (32.6%).

The share of energy from renewable sources reached 29.2% in Estonia, 27.3% in Croatia, 25.8% in Lithuania, 24.5% in Romania 18.7% in Bulgaria, 14.8% in the Czech Republic and 13.3% in Hungary.

Poland, with only 10.9% of renewables, is one of the EU countries furthest away, by 4.4%, from the national targets.

In 2017, the share of energy from renewable sources in the European Union reached 17.5%, +0.5% compared to 2016 and more than double the share in 2004 (8.5%), Eurostat said. The EU's target is to reach 20% of energy in gross final consumption of energy from renewable sources by 2020 and at least 32% by 2030. (ANSA).

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