Solar Leads EU Electricity Generation As Renewables Hit 54% (electrek.co)
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- News link: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/10/01/2215232/solar-leads-eu-electricity-generation-as-renewables-hit-54
- Source link: https://electrek.co/2025/09/30/solar-leads-eu-electricity-generation-as-renewables-hit-54-percent/
> According to new data from [2]Eurostat , renewable energy sources generated 54% of the EU's net electricity in Q2 2025, up from 52.7% year-over-year. The growth came mainly from solar, which produced 122,317 gigawatt-hours (GWh) -- nearly 20% of the total electricity generation mix. June 2025 was a milestone month: Solar became the EU's single largest electricity source for the first time ever. It supplied 22% of all power that month, edging out nuclear (21.6%), wind (15.8%), hydro (14.1%), and natural gas (13.8%). [...]
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> In total, 15 EU countries saw their share of renewable generation rise year-over-year. Luxembourg (+13.5 percentage points) and Belgium (+9.1 pp) posted the most significant gains, driven largely by solar power growth. Across the EU, solar made up 36.8% of renewable generation, followed by wind at 29.5%, hydro at 26%, biomass at 7.3%, and geothermal at 0.4%.
[1] https://electrek.co/2025/09/30/solar-leads-eu-electricity-generation-as-renewables-hit-54-percent/
[2] https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/-/ddn-20250929-3
The stupid it hurts. (Score:2, Interesting)
What matters is the least energy output in a given timeframe. That tells you how far you've got to go. For instance modelling in Australia suggests we'd need 3 days of storage, 2 TWh, to cope with a one in 10 years shortfall of renewable energy. Annual replacement costs for the battery every 15 years exceed all of our public health spending each year. Oh well, the children vote for it, now they can pay for it.
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I find what you just said is word salad. Why would you need 3 days of energy storage? Battery costs are cheap, and why would that exceed your health care costs? Australia is a coal country, who is getting beat to hell by global warming, fine, you are advocating for burning coal, at the cost of your very life in a world where you will get 50C heat and live in a desert.
Meanwhile here in the US (Score:1)
We are about to hand out 600 million to coal companies. Those donations to Trump were money extremely well spent.
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One hand washes the other, fossil industries to MAGA, and back. Both hands look "oily" to me after the washing.
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To MAGA, but not to the MAGATs. The latter still get to draw the shortest stick.
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Honestly as Long as Trump puts those people in their place the maga types are fine with whatever Trump does to them.
I have seen a few of them panicking because Trump is taking away things that they need to live. But they never realize the mistake they made they are just confused because they can't comprehend why this great man would do these things to them.
They really do think of trump as a father who protects them not as a sleazy nepo baby and pedophile.
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I tend to not kick people when they are down, but damn MAGAs are stupid.
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> ... Trump is taking away things that they need to live ... they can't comprehend why this great man would do these things to them.
'Cause he's a legend in his own mind - more and more, the less and less that remains.
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> We are about to hand out 600 million to coal companies. Those donations to Trump were money extremely well spent.
Yup, 'cause those renewables, generating 54%, are a scam; that's Trump told the U.N. anyway.
(Guess he would know. More seriously, if he actually believed that, he'd be all -in on them. /s)
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Trump thinks Windmills causes cancer, and Tylenol causes autism. Trump is not an expert on anything but desperately trying to what the latest conspiracy online theory is.
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I hadn't heard of this before so I thought I'd look into it. Since the article being discussed is from electrek.co I thought I'd go back to electrek.co as a source on what this $600,000,000+ investment means:
[1]https://electrek.co/2025/09/29... [electrek.co]
> $350 million to restart or upgrade old coal plants, improving their capacity and reliability.
That's keeping existing coal power plants online to meet the immediate need for electrical generating capacity than waiting for new wind and solar capacity to be built. I'd hate to see the USA put in a place where there's something that causes a sudden loss of electri
[1] https://electrek.co/2025/09/29/doe-props-up-dying-coal-with-625m-days-after-wright-mocks-clean-energy-subsidies/