UK at risk of missing EU renewable energy targets

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European Environment Agency says UK is slightly behind trajectory needed to meet 2020 legally-binding targets

The UK's green energy sector is failing to follow the trajectory needed to meet legally-binding European renewables targets by the end of the decade, new EU research has warned. The country should have...

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