By Bruno De Wachter / Published on Thu, 2008-01-10 08:30
How should the 20 per cent renewables target be divided among the member states?
The EU has set two remarkable targets to be reached by 2020: 20 per cent energy saving and 20 per cent renewables in the energy mix. Those targets are remarkable because they were set without specifying in detail what the numbers meant or how they should be achieved. This resulted in two post factum discussions: how much does 1 per cent energy saving mean, and how should the 20 per cent renewables target be divided among the member states?
The latter is currently the subject of a heated debate in which all governments are running for cover. The debate failed to reach a conclusion in December and is postponed to the Commission meeting of 23 January 2008.
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