In a new report on the EU’s electricity transition in 2024, energy think-tank Ember reveals that solar power remained the fastest-growing energy source in the EU’s electricity mix in 2024, overtaking coal for the first time.
Solar capacity additions reached a record level and production was 22% higher than in 2023. With this growth, coal went from being the EU’s third largest source of electricity generation in 2019 to the sixth largest in 2024.
Gas also declined for the fifth year in...