iEurActiv: The European Commission insists that the EU’s new Renewable Energy Directive gives it sufficient power to ensure national compliance, after it admitted that the Union is unlikely to meet its goal of sourcing 12% of its energy from renewables in 2010. Background: In 1997, the European Commission published a White Paper on renewable energy, announcing its intention to double the EU’s renewable energy share to 12% by 2010. The required policy framework for promoting renewables was …
Enforcement of EU renewables law ‘faltering’
iEurActiv: The European Commission insists that the EU’s new Renewable Energy Directive gives it sufficient power to ensure national compliance, after it admitted that the Union is unlikely to meet its goal of sourcing 12% of its energy from renewables in 2010. Background: In 1997, the European Commission published a White Paper on renewable energy, announcing its intention to double the EU’s renewable energy share to 12% by 2010. The required policy framework for promoting renewables was …
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