First you should recap to remember what targets were assigned for 2020. The so-called “20 -20-20" approved by the European Council in 2007 and put into practice through the Directive of Energy Efficiency Directive (EED – Energy Efficiency Directive) (EU, 2012), the summarized approach is:
According to the analysis carried out by the EEA (European Agency Environment) has made the forecasts for each Member State, by 2020 the EU is expected to Reduce your greenhouse gas emissions by at least 21% in compared to 1990 levels , thus exceeding its 20% target.
On the other hand, in 2012, final energy consumption from renewable sources amounted to 14%, so the EU is also ahead of the expected trajectory for reach 20% renewable energy by 2020. Similarly, energy consumption in the EU is declining at faster than is necessary to achieve the target of energy efficiency by 2020.
In order to meet the objective of increasing the participation in renewable energy sources at 20% over final gross energy consumption for 2020, the EU adopted the EU Directive, 2009b (S about the efforts of Member States to reduce their emissions greenhouse gases) as part of the climate and energy improvement package. The 20% target is binding legally and, at the time, also is set a callsign for each member of the EU. The objectives We can see them in the following table:
According to Hans Bruyninckx, executive director of the EEA. “Even in the context of the economic recession of recent years, the policies and measures adopted are working and, in fact, have been vital to achieve this provisional result. However, there is no margin for self-indulgence; the analyzes we publish today point out that there are also countries and sectors in which progress has been less than planned « .
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As we can identify in the image, one of the largest concerns of the EU is the difference, in progress, between the different countries. According to the report, the report exposed, in summary:
Spain, Germany, Luxembourg, Poland, Austria, Belgium, Finland and Ireland “are not on the right track to meet their goals» of 2020 so they will have make an effort and apply new measures to achieve the objective. With risk of direct default for Bulgaria, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands and Slovenia.
Portugal, Ireland and Spain have not achieved the goal set in its national plan for 2012 and therefore shows insufficient progress to reach the 2020 goal.
Spain is among the 17 countries that have achieved a reduction in its energy consumption sufficient to reach the 2020 target.
The forecasts in numbers can be seen in the following box, and I already commented to you, that a negative score is not nothing encouraging. (To see all the countries, go to Pag. 54-55)
But the most frustrating are the last ones news confirming that wind energy is the most cheap . From the Eldiario.es ( HERE ) where… “three investment banks (Morgan Stanley, UBS and Lazard) have claimed that Renewables today are already competitive in many applications without the need for any financial support and without not even take into account the enormous social advantages and environmental benefits they contribute».
We can recognize that banks, We don't really believe them, but if we read the news of the Theguardian.com ( HERE ) with the groundbreaking title of «Wind energy is the most cheap, according to an analysis of the EU» We began to take each other into things seriously, and more, if we access the report issued by the EU that confirms the aforementioned, called… “Subsidies and energy costs of the WHAT» .
Access to the Report Trends and Projections in Europe 2014 (Monitoring progress towards the European climate and energy targets for 2020)
