The EU towards its renewable energy targets

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The EU now gets more than 30% of its electricity from renewable sources, up from 12% in 2000. With equivalent growth, this will increase to 50% by 2030, according to a new report by Sandbag and Agora Energiewende [1][2].

Among other things, the report shows that renewables were responsible for more electricity production than both coal and natural gas in 2017. This should be viewed in conjunction with the fact that coal only five years ago was more than twice as big as wind, solar and biomass.

On the other hand, the report also points out that the electricity consumption increased by 0.7% in 2017, the third consecutive year with growth in co...