EU surpasses renewable energy targets — but Ireland lags behind

Ireland's first and only operational offshore wind farm at the Arklow Bank Wind Park (Phase 1), off the coast of Arklow, Co. Wicklow. 

The EU as a whole surpassed its renewable energy targets by 2020 — but Ireland is lagging way behind European leaders in the field, research shows.

The European Commission's data analysis wing Eurostat said that the share of gross final energy consumption from renewable sources reached 22% in 2020, or two percentage points above the aims targeted in a 2009 EU directive.