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Latvia registered third highest proportion of renewable energy use in EU in 2008

Alla Petrova, BC, Riga, 14.07.2010.Print version
In 2008, Latvia registered the third highest proportion of renewable energy use in the European Union, according to data from the European Union's statistics office Eurostat. The proportion of renewable energy use in Lithuania in 2008 was 15.3%, but in Estonia – 19.1%.

Sweden had the highest proportion of renewable energy use in the EU in 2008 – 44.4%, followed by Finland – 30.5%, informs LETA.

 

On the other hand, the lowest proportion of renewable energy use is in Malta – 0.2%, followed by Luxembourg – 2.1%, and Great Britain – 2.2%.

 

The total proportion of renewable energy use in the whole EU was 10.3% in 2008, compared to 9.7% in 2007 and 8.8% in 2006.






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