Overall ambition level of national targets for primary and final energy consumption in 2020

Methodology

Targets based on:
• Directive 2012/27/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 October 2012 on energy efficiency, amending Directives 2009/125/EC and 2010/30/EU and repealing Directives 2004/8/EC and 2006/32/EC and updates by MS in their national energy efficiency action plans (NEEAPs). The energy efficiency target for 2020 is defined as an absolute target, set 20 % below the level in primary energy consumption projected for 2020 in the 2007 Energy Baseline scenario of the European Commission.

By the closing date of for this report, the following countries have had published their updated NEEAPs in on the European Commission’s website: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, Spain, Finland, France, Croatia, Ireland, Malta, Netherlands, Sweden, Slovakia and United Kingdom.

Units

Million tonne of oil equivalent (Mtoe)

Additional information

This chart is related with https://www.eea.europa.eu/policy-documents/directive-2012-27-eu policy document.

The Member States grouped as ‘Other Member States’ are those which have a 2020 target on primary energy consumption lower than 20 Mtoe and a 2020 target on final energy consumption lower than 15 Mtoe. In order of decreasing magnitude of 2020 target, these countries are Denmark, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Ireland, Croatia, Slovenia, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Luxembourg, Cyprus and Malta.