European efforts to accelerate the development of low-carbon energy supplies are working. That is the central conclusion to be drawn from new figures from the EU's statistics agency, Eurostat, which reveal that almost a fifth of energy production in the EU came from renewable sources last year.
The data-rich report, entitled Statistical Aspects of the Energy Economy in 2009, concluded that renewable energy accounted for 18.4 per cent of energy production in the EU, putting the sector in third place behind natural gas which accounted for 19.3 per cent and nuclear energy which provided 28 per cent of the EU's power.
Renewable energy output increased by more than eight per cent compared to 2008, while total energy production from natural gas and hard coal power plants fell by 10.1 per cent and 9.2 per cent respectively.
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