Renewable energy sources 'will take off'

The use of renewable energy will increase over the next few years, according to experts.

Green energy organisation Renewable UK has said that the goal to reach EU 2020 renewable energy targets has been driving Britain to look at green energy more seriously.

Head of communications at the group Nick Medic suggested that this was particularly evident with wind power.

He said: "What you can now see is offshore wind properly taking off."

This comes after the recent environmental analysis published by the European Commission revealed that 62 per cent of the new electricity generation capacity installed in the EU last year was from green energy sources.

The report also suggested that by 2020, between 35 and 40 per cent of all the energy used in the EU could come from green energy sources.

Mr Medic added that Germany, Denmark, Belgium and Holland were pursuing "very ambitious offshore wind programmes", which he said will keep the "proportion of wind energy as a percentage of everything very high".

Posted by Claire Manning