WWF PRAISES COMMISSION'S DRAFT PROPOSALS ON RENEWABLES.(Brief Article)

Europe Energy, April, 2000

The World-Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has given a warm welcome to the European Commission's plans aiming at reaching a target of 22.1% of electricity from renewables in the total EU power consumption equation by 2010 - derived from a target of renewables making up 12% of overall EU energy demand.

"Targets proposed by the European Commission in the unpublished draft Renewable Energy Directive would increase by five times the amount of electricity generated renewably in the UK and Belgium, triple renewable electricity production in the Netherlands and Ireland, and more than double it in Germany and Greece", they said. WWF called on EU Energy Ministers meeting at the end of May to "give the European electricity industry a permanent future" by rejecting voluntary...

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