Poland’s renewables share at 11% - Eurostat

The share of renewable energy sources in energy consumption in the European Union reached 17 percent at end-2016, the EU statistics office Eurostat announced. In Sweden, more than half (53.8 percent) of consumed energy came from renewable sources. Finland was second (38.7 percent), followed by Latvia (37.2 percent), Austria (33.5 percent), and Denmark (32.2 percent). The lowest share of energy from renewable sources was recorded in Luxembourg (5.4 percent), Malta, and the Netherlands (6 percent). The EU climate policy assumes obtaining 20 percent share of energy from renewable sources in final energy consumption by 2020 and at least 27 percent until 2030. So far, 11 member states have already met their 2020 target. The goal for Poland is 15 percent. In 2016 it stood at 11.3 percent.