RENEWABLE ENERGY DIRECTIVE IN PLACE – NOW THE HARD WORK OF CONSTRUCTION BEGINS
December 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
AS 2009 dawns, the European Union's (EU) renewable energy sector knows that it has truly entered the mainstream of EU utility markets, its growth being sanctioned by ambitious legislation approved before Christmas.
After more than a year of debates, the European Parliament and EU ministers have approved a new EU directive imposing mandatory national targets for the 27 member states regarding the portion of their gross final consumption of energy in 2020 coming from renewable sources. Across the EU, this is supposed to be an average of 20%, ...
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