According to a report published on Monday 6 July by the Coalition for Energy Savings, a group of civil society organisations, eight Member States are not on track to meet their 2014-2020 energy efficiency obligations under the European Union Directive on Energy Efficiency (2018/2002).
The Directive requires each Member State to achieve cumulative energy savings of 1.5% per year from 2014 to 2020 (so that savings build up year on year), but Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Greece, Germany, Hungary, Italy and Luxembourg would need to more than double their new annual energy savings for 2019 and 2020 to stay on track.
The report states that Germany would have to treble its energy savings.
Although the target seems “out of reach” for these countries, the document points out that Spain could make up its deficit and achieve its target. In order to do so, it would have to increase its annual energy savings by about 20% in 2019 and 2020.
In the light of these results, Stefan Scheuer, the Secretary General of the Coalition for Energy Savings, calls for “corrective action” [...] “urgently”, in order “to ensure that the minimum energy savings are delivered in all EU Member States”.
The 2021-2030 targets are even more demanding.
To read the report, go to: https://bit.ly/3e5BNlO (Original version in French by Damien Genicot)