The conclusions by the Energy Council – a meeting of the EU’s 28 energy ministers and the European Commission – recommended that member states set out post-2020 plans for climate and energy by the end of 2019. These plans would include renewable energy.

“Many member states seem to be ducking out of the challenge,” says EWEA chief executive Giles Dickson.

“It’s not clear how they will contribute to the binding renewables target of at least 27% of Europe’s energy by 2030.

“So