Report finds EU wind and photo voltaic capability up almost two-thirds since 2019

The capability for wind and photo voltaic vitality within the European Union elevated by 65% ​​from 2019 to 2023, with Germany making the biggest contribution, in line with an evaluation by vitality suppose tank Ember.

The report says Germany accounts for 22% of the rise within the EU, adopted by Spain with 13%. More than half of the 27 EU members have not less than doubled their wind and photo voltaic capability over the interval.

From 2019 to 2023, photo voltaic capability within the EU will greater than double, reaching 257 gigawatts final yr. Over 4 years, this equates to the each day set up of greater than 230,000 photo voltaic modules, the report’s authors defined.

In addition, the wind vitality capability elevated by nearly a 3rd to 219 gigawatts.

Due to the brand new capacities, the proportion of wind and photo voltaic vitality within the EU’s electrical energy combine has elevated from 17% to 27% within the final 4 years.

Since 2019, the EU’s vitality sector has modified considerably, amid formidable local weather insurance policies and measures to cut back dependence on Russian gasoline.

According to Ember knowledgeable Sarah Brown, formidable local weather insurance policies and focused steps to divest from Russian gasoline have created actual and sustainable momentum.

The European Commission’s Green Deal technique goals for renewables to account for not less than 42.5% of vitality used throughout the EU by 2030.

With the Green Deal, the EU goals to be local weather impartial by 2050. The technique consists of measures in areas akin to vitality, transport, trade and agriculture.

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