{"id":114810,"date":"2023-06-09T07:52:17","date_gmt":"2023-06-09T04:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/wind-and-solar-overtake-fossil-fuels-in-the-eu-as-energy-transition-hits-hyperdrive\/"},"modified":"2023-06-09T07:52:17","modified_gmt":"2023-06-09T04:52:17","slug":"wind-and-solar-overtake-fossil-fuels-in-the-eu-as-energy-transition-hits-hyperdrive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/wind-and-solar-overtake-fossil-fuels-in-the-eu-as-energy-transition-hits-hyperdrive\/","title":{"rendered":"Wind and solar overtake fossil fuels in the EU as energy transition hits \u2018hyperdrive\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114810\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nThe EU is on track for a &#8216;huge collapse&#8217; in fossil fuel power this year, says energy think tank Ember. Wind and solar produced more energy in the EU during May than all fossil fuels combined, according to energy think tank Ember. This is the first full month on record where these renewables produced more power &#8211; with almost a third of the bloc\u2019s electricity coming from wind and solar. Fossil fuels generated a record low of 27 per cent. \u201cEurope\u2019s electricity transition has hit hyperdrive,\u201d says Ember\u2019s Europe lead Sarah Brown.<\/p>\n<p>Ember\u2019s data says that growth in solar power, strong performance from wind and low electricity demand were behind the record. Solar alone generated 14 per cent of the EU\u2019s electricity in May: an all-time high. Even without the summer sun, it overtook coal power for the first time which produced just a tenth of the total last month. Electricity generation from wind power also grew compared to May last year. But didn\u2019t quite reach a record set in January this year where it contributed 23 per cent of the bloc\u2019s power. A push to install new renewables has also caused fossil fuel generation to fall from January to May this year, allowing solar and wind to overtake.<\/p>\n<p>Portugal installed 0.9 GW of solar photovoltaics in 2022, increasing its solar capacity by more than 50 per cent to 2.5 GW &#8211; enough to power around 1 million homes. This extra capacity pushed the country\u2019s wind and solar generation to over 50 per cent of electricity production in April. Other EU nations, including Spain, Sweden and Belgium have also hit all-time highs for renewable generation this year. With coal generating just 10 per cent of power and gas reaching its lowest share since 2018 at 15 per cent, fossil fuel power is continuing to fall in the EU. Ember says it is a trend that has continued from late 2022 into the first months of this year.Coal reached a record low in May &#8211; even in European countries that have previously relied heavily on this fossil fuel. Despite closing its last nuclear power plants in April, coal fell to its lowest level in Germany since 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The news comes as Italy this week said it could shut down its coal-fired power stations by 2024 &#8211; a year earlier than planned &#8211; if gas prices remain low. The use of gas is falling too, however, with Ember\u2019s Europe Electricity Review from January showing that wind and solar became the EU\u2019s top electricity source for the first time in 2022. Record amounts of new wind and solar helped the bloc to avoid the \u201ctriple crisis\u201d of restrictions on Russian gas supplies, problems with hydropower due to drought and unexpected nuclear outages. \u201cNot only did coal power set new lows, but gas is also tumbling,\u201d says Brown.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/green\/2023\/06\/08\/wind-and-solar-overtake-fossil-fuels-in-the-eu-as-energy-transition-hits-hyperdrive\">Euronews<\/a> <\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/environmental-news-en\/wind-and-solar-overtake-fossil-fuels-in-the-eu-as-energy-transition-hits-hyperdrive\/\">Wind and solar overtake fossil fuels in the EU as energy transition hits \u2018hyperdrive\u2019<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[482,575,274,702,10325,10326,1332,972,1333],"class_list":["post-114810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-energy","tag-environmental-news-en","tag-eu","tag-fossil-fuel","tag-hyperdrive","tag-overtake","tag-solar","tag-transition","tag-wind"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}