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EU on track to exceed 50% renewable generation by 2030 / Fereidoon Sioshansi, EU Energy Policy blog,3/03/2012http://www.energypolicyblog.com/2012/03/03/eu-on-track-to-exceed-50-renewable-generation-by-2030/Renewable energy resources, according to the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA), are poised to meet over half of EU’s electricity demand by 2030. In a statement released in mid-January 2012, Justin Wilkes, EWEA’s Director of Policy, said that the EU had already achieved the 21% target set in a 2001 directive for the end of 2010 by generating somewhere between 665-673 TWh from renewable resources, or 21% of total EU consumption of 3,115-3,175 TWh in 2010...