{"id":1001,"date":"2013-03-29T12:24:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-29T11:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/?p=1001"},"modified":"2018-05-02T17:08:51","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T15:08:51","slug":"sweden-covers-51-of-its-energy-supply-with-renewables-meets-its-red-target-8-years-ahead-of-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/sweden-covers-51-of-its-energy-supply-with-renewables-meets-its-red-target-8-years-ahead-of-schedule\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweden covers 51% of its energy supply with renewables, meets its RED target 8 years ahead of schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1004\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1004\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/pine-forest-sweden.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1004 \" title=\"pine forest in Sweden\" src=\"http:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/pine-forest-sweden-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/pine-forest-sweden-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/pine-forest-sweden-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/pine-forest-sweden-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1004\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 Flickr.com\/tetrapak IB00215<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In a press release of March 21st, the Swedish Bioenergy Association annouced that Sweden has achieved its national renewable energy target introduced by the EC\u00a0 Renewable Energy Directive (RED) eight years ahead of time.<\/p>\n<p>The target set by the Directive was a share of 49 percent by 2020, while according to official statistics from the Swedish Energy Agengy, in 2012 51 percent of Sweden\u2019s energy supply was already from renewable energy sources.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 <em>This is a fantastic development, which illustrates that it is much easier to transform the energy system<\/em> <em>in a sustainable direction than many believe is possible. It is now important that the Swedish government <\/em><em>and parliament set even more ambitious targets,<\/em> said Gustav Melin, CEO of Svebio, the Swedish Bioenergy Association.<\/p>\n<p>The main driver behind the successfull growth of renewables is the use of general incentives like the carbon tax, introduced in 1991, which has strengthened the state budget and lead to investments and thousands of new jobs in the local jobs markets, according to Melin.<\/p>\n<p>Bioenergy plays a fundamental role in meeting this target, accounting for almost a third of Sweden\u2019s energy use,<br \/>\nwhile hydropower accounts for almost half of Sweden\u2019s electricity supply. Wind power and geothermal heat pumps each supply less than 5 percent of the renewable energy, and solar energy less than one percent.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldbioenergy.org\/sites\/default\/files\/Sweden%27s%20energy%20supply_pressrelease.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a press release of March 21st, the Swedish Bioenergy Association annouced that Sweden has achieved its national renewable energy target introduced by the EC\u00a0 Renewable Energy Directive (RED) eight&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1009,"href":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001\/revisions\/1009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}