{"id":70556,"date":"2023-02-01T07:21:37","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T20:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=70556"},"modified":"2023-02-01T07:21:37","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T20:51:37","slug":"european-electricity-review-mb2812","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/european-electricity-review-mb2812\/","title":{"rendered":"Fears Of EU Coal Power Rebound &#8220;Dead&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-70557\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/european-electricity-review.png\" alt=\"European Electricity Review\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/european-electricity-review.png 1200w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/european-electricity-review-300x158.png 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/european-electricity-review-1024x538.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/european-electricity-review-768x403.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Record growth in wind and solar energy helped cushion the blow from a triple crisis in the EU&#8217;s electricity sector last year &#8211; which only caused what&#8217;s been termed a &#8220;minor ripple&#8221; in coal power growth.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As ties with Russian gas supply were cut, Europe was also challenged by low levels of hydro power due to drought and a bunch of nuclear power station units being offline. But renewables stepped in to help save the day.<\/p>\n<p>According to energy think-tank Ember&#8217;s European Electricity Review released today, wind and solar power generated 22% of EU electricity in 2022, a new record. 2022 was the first time wind and solar overtook gas-fired electricity generation, which accounted for 20%. As for coal power, it increased by only 1.5 percentage points &#8211; 16% of EU electricity in 2022 &#8211; and there were year-on-year falls during the last four months of 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Ember\u2019s Dave Jones said Europe has avoided the worst of the energy crisis.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe shocks of 2022 only caused a minor ripple in coal power and a huge wave of support for renewables,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Any fears of a coal rebound are now dead.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Aside from the growth in renewables, also playing a significant role in reining in fossil fuel based electricity generation were a drop in demand resulting from mild weather, skyrocketing electricity prices and a general increase in awareness of the need to reduce electricity consumption.<\/p>\n<h2>Solar Power Surges<\/h2>\n<p>Last year solar energy generation racked up a record increase of 39 TWh, up 24%. Solar power produced 7.3% (203 TWh) of EU electricity in 2022, up from 5.7% in 2021. 20 EU countries set new records in 2022 for PV&#8217;s share in electricity generation.<\/p>\n<p>41 GW of solar capacity was installed in 2022, 47% more than was added in 2021. The top 5 countries for capacity additions were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Germany: 7.9 GW<\/li>\n<li>Spain: 7.5 GW<\/li>\n<li>Poland 4.9 GW<\/li>\n<li>the Netherlands: 4 GW<\/li>\n<li>France: 2.7 GW<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Just as comparison, around 1.4 GW of large-scale solar was connected in Australia&#8217;s National Electricity Market (NEM) last year. But <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/australia\/\">home solar uptake in Australia<\/a> and other small-scale PV systems below 100kW capacity will add at least another 2.5GW to 2022&#8217;s total.<\/p>\n<p>And on that note, EU households also embraced rooftop solar panels last year, installing a whopping 25 GW in 2022, which was 8 GW more than in 2021. Ember says rooftop solar power now represents 66% of the EU\u2019s total installed solar capacity of 209 GW.<\/p>\n<p>The role solar energy will play in the EU will only get bigger states Ember.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Four years from now, and it is possible that solar will have tripled again to nearly 600 GW.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>Fossil Fuels To Fall Further In 2023<\/h2>\n<p>Ember says with a rebound in hydro generation, offline nuclear units coming back online, wind and solar deployment accelerating and electricity demand likely to continue to fall in the months ahead, Europe should see a huge fall in fossil fuel based power generation this year. The company estimates fossil generation could plummet by as much as 20% in 2023, which would be double the previous record from 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The full <a href=\"https:\/\/ember-climate.org\/app\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Report-European-Electricity-Review-2023.pdf\"> European Electricity Review can be accessed here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Record growth in wind and solar energy helped cushion the blow from a triple crisis in the EU&#8217;s electricity sector last year &#8211; which only caused what&#8217;s been termed a &#8220;minor ripple&#8221; in coal power growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":70557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[678],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solar-battery-news","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.2 (Yoast SEO v27.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Fears Of EU Coal Power Rebound &quot;Dead&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Record growth in wind and solar energy helped cushion the blow from a triple crisis in the EU&#039;s electricity sector last year.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/european-electricity-review-mb2812\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Fears Of EU Coal Power Rebound &quot;Dead&quot;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Record growth in wind and solar energy helped cushion the blow from a triple crisis in the EU&#039;s electricity sector last year.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/european-electricity-review-mb2812\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"SolarQuotes Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SolarQuotes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-01-31T20:51:37+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/european-electricity-review.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Michael Bloch\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@solar_quotes\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@solar_quotes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/european-electricity-review-mb2812\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/european-electricity-review-mb2812\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Michael Bloch\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/66afd571aa00c2e442f0192ebac2f6f1\"},\"headline\":\"Fears Of EU Coal Power Rebound &#8220;Dead&#8221;\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-01-31T20:51:37+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/european-electricity-review-mb2812\/\"},\"wordCount\":502,\"commentCount\":5,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/european-electricity-review-mb2812\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/european-electricity-review.png\",\"articleSection\":[\"General Solar &amp; 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