As part of the clean energy package, Parliament approved changes to the EU's renewable energy directive in November 2018, to include a new binding 32% green energy target for 2030 as well as set new principles on future financial support to renewable energy sources and boost people's right to produce their own renewable energy.

Spanish S&D member José Blanco López, who is responsible for steering the plans through Parliament, said: “We have substantially improved the initial proposal and we finally managed to reach a compromise on a binding target of 32% of renewables in the energy mix for 2030.”

The update is needed as the EU is committed to boosting renewable energy. Under present rules 20% of the EU's energy consumption must come from renewable sources such as the sun or wind by 2020. In 2014 EU countries agreed this should increase to 27% by 2030.

To achieve this, national binding targets have been set and EU countries are on track to reach them. Check the table below for details.