On Monday, the European Union Joint research Center Institute for energy (JRC IE) published a new report, “Renewable Energy Snapshots” in which it evaluates the role of renewable energy in the energy mix of the Union in 2009. The report shows that renewable sources in new electricity-generation installed capacity in 2009 grew by 62 percent from 2008 levels, compared to an increase by 57 percent in 2008 compared to the previous year. Overall 27.5 GW of renewable energy are produced in the Union( 19.9 percent of the energy consumed), 38 percent of which (10.2 GW) are represented by wind energy, which plays the lion’s share for the second year running.

The report can be downloaded from http://re.jrc.ec.europa.eu/refsys/pdf/Snapshots_EUR_2010i.pdf

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