EU expects Britain to deliver on renewable energy commitments - AFP

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Source: Agence France-Presse

EU expects Britain to deliver on renewable energy commitments

Mon Aug 13, 7:41 AM ET

BRUSSELS (AFP) - The EU Commission remains confident
that Britain will deliver on its commitments to increase
the use of renewable energy sources, despite doubts
expressed in London, a Brussels spokesman said Monday.

British officials have told government ministers that the
country has no chance of meeting its commitments under
European Union plans to raise the proportion of energy
made from renewable sources by 2020, The Guardian
newspaper reported.

Citing an internal briefing paper for ministers that it had
obtained, The Guardian said officials believe that the best
Britain can do is to produce nine percent of its energy
from renewable sources by 2020 -- EU heads of state
agreed earlier this year to target 20 percent over the
27-nation bloc.

But Antonia Mochan, spokeswoman for EU Science and
Research Commissioner Janez Potocnik, said the 20
percent renewables target had been agreed by all EU
member states and so far that goal had not been cut up
into individual national targets.

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