On Wednesday 14 September the European Parliament adopted by a large majority (469 votes in favour, 93 against and 82 abstentions) the draft report by Niels Fuglsang (S&D, Danish) on the revision of the EU Energy Efficiency Directive (EED), thus supporting an increase of 14.5% of the target for reducing energy consumption in the EU by 2030 (compared to the 2020 baseline projections).
This is an increase of 5.5 percentage points (pp) compared to the target originally proposed by the...