The European Commission intends to propose a minimum share of renewable energy in the EU’s energy mix of between 38 and 40% as a new EU target for 2030 (the current target is ‘at least 32%’), according to a draft proposal for the revision of the EU’s Renewable Energy Directive (2018/2001) (RED II) obtained by EUROPE on Wednesday 16 June.
“Option 2 (a higher target than 40%) would potentially lead to overshooting the climate target and to a lack of coherence with other EU...