Policy Issue

Renewable Energy Directive

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Renewable Energy Directive

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Basic information

State of play

The European Commission’s revision proposal of the Renewable Energy Directive (RED) was published on 14 July 2021. It proposes to increase the collective target for the share of renewable energy in 2030 from 32% to 40%. The Council and Parliament adopted their positions in June and September 2022 respectively. The Council endorsed a 40% target, whereas the Parliament endorsed a 45% target.

On 18 May 2022, the Commission proposed in the REPowerEU plan to increase the target to 45%, in view of the urgent need to end dependence on Russian energy products. The Council and Parliament adopted in December 2022 additional positions on the new amendments proposed by the Commission. These will now factor into the ongoing inter-institutional negotiations on the RED file. Final adoption of the amended RED is expected to follow in early 2023.

21 November 2022

ITRE adopts report to boost renewables in RePowerEU

On 14 November, the European Parliament’s ITRE committee voted on parts of the reform on the Renewable Energy Directive.

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04 October 2022

Commission confronts incomplete transposition of EU energy laws

The European Commission is starting a new package of legal actions against Member States for failing to comply with their obligations under EU law. The RED, EPBD, and EED are among the legislation not fully transposed by certain Member States....

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14 September 2022

ITRE report on the RED review goes to Plenary

Eurovent received a leaked version of the Commission’s proposal for a Cyber Resilience Act. The content might change by September 13, which is the official publication date of the proposal.The European Parliament plenary session will debate the report from the ITRE Commi...

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13 July 2022

Heating and cooling decarbonisation study published

After quite a substantial delay, the European Commission, and their contracted consultants from Trinomics, Oeko-Institut, and DTU, finalised and officially published the ‘Policy support for heating and cooling decarbonisation’ study....

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09 July 2022

Council adopts negotiating position on RED

Last week, the energy ministers adopted the Council’s negotiating position on the Renewable Energy Directive based on the compromise texts prepared by the French Presidency.

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01 March 2022

ITRE and Council amendments to RED revision out

The draft report from the lead European Parliament ITRE Committee and the draft Council amendments on the European Commission’s revision proposal on the Renewable Energy Directive (RED II) are now available.

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14 February 2022

23 percent renewable heating and cooling in 2020

According to Eurostat, the share of renewable energy used for heating and cooling in 2020 in the EU reached 23%. That is up from 22% in 2019 and up from 12% in 2004 when the Eurostat dataset starts.

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08 November 2021

Reviewed methodology for renewable cooling open for feedback

Draft delegated Regulation amending Annex VII of Directive (EU) 2018/2001 regards a methodology for calculating the amount of renewable energy used for cooling and district cooling out for consultation until 25 November 2021.

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Publications

2020

Position Paper

English

PP – 2020-09-19 – Eurovent feedback on the roadmap for the RED review

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Legislation

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