Renewable Vitality 44.7% of EU Electrical energy Manufacturing in 2023 — Now #1!

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Eurostat has now launched electrical energy information from 2023, and it reveals that 44.7% of EU electrical energy manufacturing got here from renewable vitality sources final yr!* Fossil fuel (aka “pure fuel”) manufacturing was down, rather a lot. Coal manufacturing was down much more. Even manufacturing from oil and petroleum merchandise (already fairly low) was down. In the meantime, in fact, renewable vitality manufacturing was up! Clearly, in Europe, renewable vitality is now successful.

And this can be a crossover yr, as a result of in 2022, electrical energy manufacturing from fossil fuels was increased than electrical energy manufacturing from renewable vitality sources (by a smidge). Let’s get to some graphs and extra precise stats now — simply notice the distinction between provide and manufacturing with these.

provide stats for 2023 vs. 2022:

• Brown coal provide down by 24.2%, to 222,840 million tonnes
• Arduous coal provide down by 20.4%, to 130,437 million tonnes
• Fossil fuel provide down by 7.4%, to 12.8 million terajoules (TJ)
• Oil/petroleum electrical energy provide down 1.5%, to 526,862 thousand tonnes
• Renewables provide elevated 4.4%, as much as 10.9 million TJ.

manufacturing stats for 2023 vs. 2022:

• Electrical energy manufacturing from fossil fuels decreased by 19.7%, to 0.88 million gigawatt-hours (GWh), or 32.5% of complete EU electrical energy manufacturing.
• Electrical energy manufacturing from renewables elevated by 12.4%, to 1.21 million gigawatt-hours (GWh), or 44.7% of complete EU electrical energy manufacturing.
• Electrical energy manufacturing from nuclear vitality elevated by 1.2%, to 0.62 million gigawatt-hours (GWh), or 22.8% of complete EU electrical energy manufacturing.

Relating to that second graph above, you may see the sharp drop in fossil gasoline electrical energy manufacturing yr over yr and the robust rise in renewable vitality electrical energy manufacturing. The crossover has occurred, and there’s no wanting again — renewables will produce extra electrical energy than fossil fuels within the EU perpetually after. And the crossover yr left nothing unsure by leaving the hole at 44.7% versus 32.5%. Renewables blew previous fossil fuels at a fast tempo!

Nuclear remained comparatively steady, simply rising barely yr over yr, however that is after a fairly large drop from 2021 to 2022 and earlier from 2019 to 2020. With how a lot fossil gasoline electrical energy manufacturing dropped final yr, you possibly can even envision that line dropping additional and additional within the subsequent couple of years and have a crossover yr with nuclear. Possibly. We’ll see.

I do know we simply acquired the 2023 information, but it surely was so optimistic that I’m already excited to see the 2024 information!

*Large hat tip to CleanTechnica reader Pedro Rosmaninho for sharing this information and the underlying report with us!