{"id":136795,"date":"2025-01-23T09:10:44","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T07:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/rising-star-europe-made-more-electricity-from-solar-than-coal-in-2024\/"},"modified":"2025-01-23T09:10:44","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T07:10:44","slug":"rising-star-europe-made-more-electricity-from-solar-than-coal-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/rising-star-europe-made-more-electricity-from-solar-than-coal-in-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Rising star\u2019: Europe made more electricity from solar than coal in 2024"},"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\/136795\" \/>\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\">\n<p>Europe made more electricity from sunshine than coal last year, a report has found, in what analysts called a \u201cmilestone\u201d for the clean energy transition. Solar panels generated 11% of the EU\u2019s electricity in 2024, while coal-burning power plants generated 10%, according to data from climate thinktank Ember. The role of fossil gas fell for the fifth year in a row to cover 16% of the electricity mix. \u201cThis is a milestone,\u201d said Beatrice Petrovich, co-author of the report. \u201cCoal is the oldest way of producing electricity, but also the dirtiest. Solar is the rising star.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Europe\u2019s industrialisation was powered by coal but the fuel has pumped out more planet-heating pollution than any other energy source. Coal-burning in the EU power sector peaked in 2007 and has halved in the years since. At the same time, clean sources of electricity have boomed. Wind and solar energy rose to 29% of EU electricity generation in 2024, while hydropower and nuclear energy continued to rebound from the 2022 lows.<\/p>\n<p>The report attributed the rise of solar \u2013 the fastest-growing power source last year \u2013 to a record amount of new panels, despite Europe getting less sunshine than the year before. \u201cIt\u2019s good news that the increase in solar build is actually translating to a reduction in fossil fuel burn,\u201d said Jenny Chase, a solar analyst at BloombergNEF, who was not involved in the report. The report found the share of coal fell in 16 of the 17 countries that still used it in 2024. It said the fuel has become \u201cmarginal or absent\u201d in most systems.<\/p>\n<p>Germany and Poland, the two countries that burn most of Europe\u2019s coal, were among those where there was a shift to cleaner sources of energy. The share of coal in Germany\u2019s electricity grid fell 17% year-on-year, while in Poland it dropped8%, the report found. Fossil gas also continued to experience a \u201cstructural decline\u201d, falling in 14 of the 26 countries that use gas power, the report found.<\/p>\n<p>The findings come despite a small increase in electricity demand after two years of steep decline brought on by Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. In response, the EU introduced a plan to save energy, find new fossil fuel suppliers, and speed up the shift to clean energy. \u201cPolicy and markets in Europe have enabled renewables to drive down the shares of both coal and natural gas,\u201d said Gregory Nemet, an energy researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and co-author of an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report. \u201cWind and solar are growing in all large economies, but coal has continued to grow in China and natural gas has grown in the US,\u201d he added. \u201cEurope is taking advantage of the full swath of affordability, security, and clean air benefits that renewables provide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The report found the EU was on track to meet its target of 400GW of installed solar capacity by 2025. It hit 338GW in 2024, the report found, and would be \u201cwithin reach\u201d of its 2030 target of 750GW if it maintained the current pace of growth. The report\u2019s authors called for investments in batteries, smart meters and other forms of \u201cclean flexibility\u201d that can help align the supply of renewable energy, which varies throughout the day, with demand.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/22\/rising-star-europe-made-more-electricity-from-solar-than-coal-in-2024\">The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vauen\/rising-star-europe-made-more-electricity-from-solar-than-coal-in-2024\/\">\u2018Rising star\u2019: Europe made more electricity from solar than coal in 2024<\/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":[17678,696,607,608],"class_list":["post-136795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-electricity-from-solar","tag-europe","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136795","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=136795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}