Your Daily Dose of Climate Hope: February 11, 2025
The EU's amazing ever-cleaner grid!
Solar has overtaken coal in the EU, and EU power sector emissions have fallen by more than half since 2007.
Tell your state leaders that the EU proves that a clean, reliable grid is achievable today!
Touch or scan the QR code below to take today’s action in the app and earn trees!
Or take action on the Internet – no app required!
Reasons For Hope
Think tank Ember has released its analysis of European Union electricity generation in 2024, and the news is spectacular. Five years after the European Green Deal of 2019, clean energy accelerates its surge. In the EU’s 27 nations, 2024 saw wind provide more electricity than fossil gas and solar provide more electricity than coal as all fossil fuel sources combined provided a record-low 29% of EU electricity and all renewable sources combined provided 47%. (Nuclear provided much of the rest). Furthermore, EU power section emissions have declined by more than half since their peak in 2007!
In addition to climate and health benefits, all this materially reduces the EU’s dependence on imported fossil fuels (with an estimated 59 billion euros’ worth of fossil fuel imports avoided since 2019 thanks to wind and solar!), bringing immense fiscal and national security benefits.
A full report is available at ember-energy.org/latest-insights/european-electricity-review-2025/.
“The EU is striding closer towards a clean energy future powered by homegrown wind and solar. This new energy system will reduce the bloc’s vulnerability to fossil price shocks, tackle the climate crisis and deliver affordable energy for its households and companies.”
— Dr. Beatrice Petrovich, Ember energy analyst
“Fossil fuels are losing their grip on EU energy. At the start of the European Green Deal in 2019, few thought the EU’s energy transition could be where it is today; wind and solar are pushing coal to the margins and forcing gas into structural decline.”
— Dr. Chris Rosslowe, Ember energy analyst
The path forward is clear: building new clean energy is overwhelmingly beneficial for citizen well-being, national security, public health, and climate action. Clean energy abundance brings clean air and plentiful, reliable power.
Tell your state leaders: the EU proves that a clean, reliable grid is achievable today!
