Sentence examples for energy directives from inspiring English sources

In addition, he says, energy directives are unwieldy and governments have been unwilling to work together.

In December Leon Brittain, a former EU competition commissioner, predicted that by summer 2007 EU members will probably have gone through the formal process of implementing the three energy directives.

Although wind power generated less than 3 percent of the electricity consumed in France in 2010, the country's "wind potential" was the second largest in Europe, and new facilities were planned in accordance with EU renewable energy directives.

But the EU's renewable energy directive is in some cases having the opposite effect.

However, the European commission is known to already be developing scenarios for increased emissions cuts through energy savings and a new renewable energy directive.

The EU's 2009 renewable energy directive mandates that from 2020, 10% of all fuel for transportation must come from renewables.

Biofuels have potential to transform renewable energy if they're sustainable: Bioenergy through sustainable advanced biofuels could make a small but significant contribution to meeting the 10% renewable energy transport target set by the EU's renewable energy directive.

The bloc has pledged to phase out subsidies for food-based energy crops, but a revised renewable energy directive released today only whittles down a cap on such biofuels from 7% in 2020 to 3.8% in 2030.

Some industry sources have told the Guardian they are alarmed and think it highly likely that priority dispatch for clean energy will be scrapped from the EU's renewable energy directive, which is currently being redrafted for the post-2020 period.

The EU's renewable energy directive will also be updated, with an eye on targets announced in the 2030 package for a 27% clean energy market share by the end of the next decade.

Europe's renewable energy directive, introduced three years ago, demands that greenhouse gas emissions from production and use of biofuels for transport must be at least 35% lower than those from fossil fuels.