“There are worrying signs on the horizon as current growth rates are insufficient to meet the 2020 targets,” says Rainer Hinrichs-Rahlwes, president of the European Renewable Energy Council (EREC) and a member of Germanrenewable energy association BEE.

Hinrichssaid that while growth toward the 2020 renewables target in the electricitysector in most of Europe is faster than foreseen in national action plans, itis too slow in the heating and cooling sector and particularly worrying in thetransport sector.

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