Business Green: European efforts to accelerate the development of low carbon energy supplies are working. That is the central conclusion to be drawn from new figures from the EU’s statistics agency, Eurostat, revealing that almost a fifth of energy production in the EU came from renewable sources last year. The data-rich report, entitled Statistical aspects of the energy economy in 2009, concluded that renewable energy accounted for 18.4 per cent of energy production in the European Union, putting …