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BRUSSELS – The European Union’s executive set out proposals on Nov. 30 aimed at moving the bloc toward meeting its climate change goals in an overhaul of rules affecting the power and renewable-energy markets.

The measures include a new, higher target for energy savings by 2030 that would reduce the bloc’s dependence on fossil-fuel imports, new rules on the promotion of renewable energy sources and a push to broaden consumer’s energy rights to give them greater choice in picking providers and providing energy to the grid.

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