The ‘Renewable Energy Snapshots’ report, published in July 2010 by the Joint Research Centre (JRC), shows that renewable energy sources accounted for 62%, or 17GW, of the new electricity generation capacity installed in the EU27 in 2009. This is up from 57% in 2008.
For the second consecutive year, wind energy accounted for thelargest share of the new installed capacity, or 10.2 GW out of the 27.5GW built, representing 38% of the total.
In absolute terms, renewables produced 19.9% of Europe's electricityconsumption last year.
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