Renewable electricity in Europe. Current state, drivers, and scenarios for 2020

December 22, 2017

The European Union has the target to increase the share of renewable energy sources (RES) in its gross final consumption of energy to 20% by 2020 (9.2% in 2006). Besides the electricity sector, primary energy consumption covers heating, cooling, and transportation. Increasing RES in transportation is more costly than in electricity generation, and hence the share of renewable energy sources in electricity generation will be significantly higher than 20%, if the target for the year 2020 is achieved. It has been estimated, that the RES share in electricity sector would be around 35% in 2020.

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