The success of the EU’s new REPowerEU plan will be dependant on the upgrade and modernisation of Europe’s electricity grid and a pan-European approach to achieve it. The REPowerEU plan, released today by the European Commission, increases Europe’s renewable energy ambition to adapt to the shifting geopolitical landscape and achieve energy independence from Russian fossil … Read more
Eurostat released data on Europes 2018 renewable energy shares last week and the data shows that the share of gross final energy consumption coming from renewable energy sources has reached 18% in 2018, up from 17.5% in 2017. To put this into perspective, Europe has a target of obtaining 20% of its gross final energy … Read more
Renewable energy sources overtook fossil fuels to become Europes primary source of electricity for the first year ever, according to EnAppSys. Their recently published annual report on the EU power market found that renewable energy generated 1,029 TWh (last year, equal to 37.5% of Europes electricity generation. 23.3% of generation cam from fossil fuels, and … Read more
It is always interesting to have a conversation with those who have not yet understood the benefits of renewable energy to society. One can always expect the argument that wind and solar would never get built without subsidies and that they are not competitive in the real market. These people also seem to forget that … Read more
The International Energy Agency (IEA) has just recently released their updated five-year forecast for global renewable energy and has referenced the growing competitiveness of wind and solar. However, they have also warned that growth would need to be double their forecast in order to meet global green targets. The forecasts see growth in renewable energy … Read more
Marco Mensink, director general of the European Chemical Industry Council (CEFIC), has claimed that Europe’s renewable energy sector is “not ambitious enough” to supply the vast quantities of carbon free power required to decarbonise the supplies of the largest industry. “For some reason it’s not really happening yet for large industry,” Mensink told a RE-Source … Read more