04/02/2022 11:05
The EU has met the 10% target level for 2020 for the share of renewable energy (including liquid biofuels, biomethane and ‘green’ electricity) used in transport according to data published by Eurostat, the EU’s statistical service.
Cyprus is one of the countries with the lowest share of energy in transport produced from renewables (7.4%), but has also recorded the fourth largest increase among all member states in 2020 compared with 2019.
According to the data, the percentage for Cyprus was at 1.1% in 2013, remained around 2.5% and 2.7% in the period 2014 - 2018, and significantly increased to 3.3% in 2019 and again to 7.4% in 2020.
Eurostat data show that the average share of energy from renewables in transport in the 27 member states increased from 1.6% in 2004 to 10.2% in 2020, standing 0.2 percentage points (pp) above the target level.
Twelve member states surpassed the target in 2020. Sweden was the clear leader in the use of renewables in transport with 31.9%, followed by Finland (13.4%), the Netherlands and Luxembourg (both 12.6%). Sweden’s leadership is explained by the high use of compliant biofuels.
In contrast, Greece (5.3%) and Lithuania (5.5%) registered the lowest use of renewables in transport, with Cyprus being sixth from the bottom.
In 2020, all member states, with the exception of France (no change, 9.2%) and Finland (-0.9 pp), registered an increase in the share of renewable energy in transport compared with 2019.
The largest increases were observed in Estonia (+5.9 pp), Luxembourg (+4.9 pp), Belgium (+4.2 pp) and Cyprus (+4.1 pp).