Solar generated record 25% of EU power in June with Germany, Spain and Poland leading the race
Solar was ahead of coal, gas, nuclear, wind and hydropower.
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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
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
Italy has literally cleaner electricity than both Poland and Germany