25.2% of Energy EU Used in 2024 Came From Renewables (europa.eu)
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- News link: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/12/24/1430253/252-of-energy-eu-used-in-2024-came-from-renewables
- Source link: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/w/ddn-20251218-2
> In 2024, 25.2% of gross final energy consumption in the EU [1]came from renewable sources , up by 0.7 percentage points compared with 2023. This share is 17.3 pp short of meeting the 2030 target (42.5%), which would require an annual average increase of 2.9 pp from 2025 to 2030.
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> Among the EU countries, Sweden recorded the highest share of its gross final energy consumption coming from renewable sources (62.8%). Sweden primarily relied on solid biomass, hydro and wind. Finland followed with 52.1%, relying on solid biomass, wind and hydro, while Denmark came in third with 46.8%, with most of its renewable energy sourced from solid biomass, wind and biogas. The lowest shares of renewables were recorded in Belgium (14.3%), Luxembourg (14.7%), and Ireland (16.1%).
[1] https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/w/ddn-20251218-2
Medieval coal (Score:3)
Meanwhile, Germany is scared of ze evil nukular and is literally importing coal from the arctic circle on Svalbard, burning coal like it is the dark ages - because Fukushima happened right in the german psyche, in the emotional part of the brain most people think ze Germans do not possess; but they very much do.
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Uranium is not renewable. At least not yet.
Which means it's coming form outside Europe.
Which means, Germany's approach is pretty sound long term for their and EU's balance sheet.
It reached 58% elect. from renewables in 2025. on track for 80% by 2030.
The right's obsession with nuclear baffles me. I thought you guys were all about energy independence?
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I see you have been left behind. How pathetic.
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Germany is using less coal today than anytime in in it's history, at least from what I can find.
I'm a supporter of nuclear power so please don't implicitly lie to support it, this is why nuclear deserves some of it's bad reputation, it's supporters do shit like this.
Coal power has been in long term decline in Germany. In 2000, coal generated the majority of electricity (52%). Over the last decade its share has halved, down to 22% in 2024. Over the same period, wind and solar’s combined share of genera
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B.S
Germany is not scared.
Nuclear electricity costs 3-5x more, and is just hopelessly economically outdated.
The only reason t build new reactors is to get Plutonium. Electricity is just a side effect.
Which country needs Plutonium ?
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FYI, Germany is reducing coal use each and every year since 2012.
Soon Zero, like UK.
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Someone better let Germany know because the mine is closing. [1]https://www.highnorthnews.com/... [highnorthnews.com]
Unless you say they’re buying Russian coal?
[1] https://www.highnorthnews.com/en/svalbard-end-last-norwegian-coal-mine
Join or get left behind (Score:2)
At this time, it really is as simple as that.
Oil and coal are renewable (Score:1)
It just takes 60 million years
Read the exact definition of "Renewable" (Score:2)
Nope. They are not.
Read the exact definition of "Renewable", as many times as necessary.