Czech Republic and indicative targets of the European Union for electricity generation from renewable sources

Abstract

In 2010, the Czech Republic was one of the states of the European Union, which met the indicative target for the share of renewable energy sources in gross electricity consumption. That year, gross electricity generation from renewable sources amounted to a total volume of 5851GWh, which corresponds to 8.24% of gross electricity consumption in the Czech Republic in the given time period. The largest share of the total came from hydroelectric power plants (47.7%) and biomass power plants (25.8%), and a smaller share from photovoltaic power plants (10.5%), biogas power plants (8.7%) and wind farms (5.7%). Compared with 2009, the highest year-on-year growth came from photovoltaic power plants (527GWh, 44.2%) and, as far as other renewable sources are concerned, electricity generation at hydroelectric power plants (360GWh, 30.2%) and biogas power plants (184GWh, 15.4%) rose more sharply as well.