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In 2015, renewable energies made up 37.6% of gross final energy consumption in Latvia, down by 1.1 percentage points (ppt) from 2014 and 2.4 ppt short of the target that the EU wants it to achieve by 2020.

Among the EU member states, the highest share of renewables in gross final energy consumption was recorded in Sweden - 53.9%, already 4.9 ppt above the target for 2020. Finland followed with 39.3%, or 1.3 ppt above the 2020 target.

In Estonia, 28.6% of final energy consumption was derived from renewables, which is 3.6 ppt above the 2020 target, and in Lithuania the share of renewables was 25.8%, or by 2.8 ppt  higher than the target for 2020.

The EU seeks to have a 20% share of its gross final energy consumption from renewable sources by 2020; this target is distributed between the EU member states with national action plans designed to plot a pathway for the development of renewable energies in each of the member states.

In 2015, altogether one-third of 28 member states had achieved the renewable energy targets for 2020 - Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Croatia, Italy, Lithuania, Hungary, Romania, Finland and Sweden.