Solar was ahead of coal, gas, nuclear, wind and hydropower.
This is awesome. 😀
I love the graph that shows it growing every year. And this is only solar, when other renewable sources like wind turbines are included, the share of power from renewable is quite high.https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/w/ddn-20260701-1
Some countries are at about 80% of electricity from renewables, it won’t be too long I think before EU as a whole reaches that level.
25% of EU
powerelectricity…yet our German minister for economy and electricity wants to turn her back on solar and wind energy and go back to fossil fuel power plants. Because that’s where she’s got her friends at
Too bad in Italy we’re too stupid and keep relying on fossil fuels
Italy has literally cleaner electricity than both Poland and Germany
i’m looking at electricitymap rn, sicily is 79% renewable with 65% solar, other regions at least 50% renewable too, on country level 35% solar and 54% renewable (+ 7% nuclear (french)). this not that far away from spain (51% solar 60% renewables + 15% nuclear). it’s not bad, you’ve got a bunch of solar and wind farms. in poland there was for many years very restrictive law on wind farm distances from populated areas, it got better but buildout is not as large as it could have been and so reliance on coal is still there. no such restrictions on solar
I love the double action that solar plays, not just displacing fossil electricity generation, but also converting a would-be heat source into not-heat. And, actually, because the fossil fuel would be emitting heat in its electricity production, that is additional heat avoided
…and if it drive air conditioning then it turns a would be heat source into a cold source. (Ignore the heat outside)
Well, when it powers a heat pump, it further heals the outdoor temperature in cold months by making the outside cold even colder instead creating new heat for the buildings by burning or by electrical heat
We have a air to water heat pump that also heats our water. So in summer we’re also taking some heat out of the air. Letting my tap run all day to save the environment
Im jealous