The plan was commissioned by the Directive 2009/28/EC[1] which required Member States of the European Union to notify the European Commission with a road map for achieving legally binding renewable energy targets.
[2] The report described how the United Kingdom planned to achieve its legally binding target of 15 per cent share of energy from renewable sources by 2020.
[citation needed] Compared to many other EU Member States in the 2010s, the UK started from a very low level of renewable energy consumption.
[citation needed] In 2008, one year before Directive 2009/28/EC, the UK adopted the Climate Change Act 2008, mandating a minimum 80 per cent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions compared with 1990 levels, to be achieved by 2050.
[5] In 2016, The Guardian newspaper reported that the UK was still required to meet the Plan's commitments, despite the country voting to leave the European Union.