EUROPEAN COMMISSION PLOTS RENEWABLES DIRECTIVE
June 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is planning to propose a directive writing into European Union (EU) law the target accepted by EU ministers earlier this year that 20% of Europe's energy be renewable by 2020.
Speaking to a Paris energy conference, EU energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs said: "By the end of this year, I will table a new 'umbrella renewables directive'." It would "give very concrete effect to the European Council's acceptance of legally binding national renewable energy targets."
He said that although the 20% target is "very ambitious", if ...
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