25.2% of Energy EU Used in 2024 Came From Renewables (europa.eu) 29
An anonymous reader shares a report: In 2024, 25.2% of gross final energy consumption in the EU 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.
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%).
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%).
Oil and coal are renewable (Score:3, Funny)
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Threats is the only unlimited resource Russia has.
Does not really work.
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Someone on this forum argued that coal isn't renewable; it was a one-off, due to the absence of fungus 60 million years ago that could process wood. According to this theory, burying wood today doesn't won't coal, because present-day fungus have learnt to degrade wood.
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Just a minor correction. 60 million years ago is roughly when the Mesozoic era ended. The Carboniferous period ended about 300 million years ago during the Paleozoic era about 50 million years before the Mesozoic started.
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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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It's coming from outside Europe for the usual reason: it's cheaper to mine it elsewhere, so European mines have closed. But Europe does have reserves. There's a paywalled paper about it that says in the abstract:
* "significant uranium resources in the Central Europe U metallogenic province and the Alpine orogenic belt U metallogenic province (378 × 10^3 t)."
* "estimates suggest that black shale in Sweden contains 6535 × 10^3 t of uranium resources"
* "significant strategic importance for Europe in
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I see you have been left behind. How pathetic.
Re:Medieval coal (Score:5, Informative)
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 generation rose from 15% to 43%.
https://ember-energy.org/count... [ember-energy.org]
https://www.cleanenergywire.or... [cleanenergywire.org]
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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. https://www.highnorthnews.com/... [highnorthnews.com]
Unless you say they’re buying Russian coal?
Join or get left behind (Score:4, Insightful)
At this time, it really is as simple as that.
what they fail to mention (Score:1)
What they fail to mention is that the total cost was more than if 0% had come from renewables.
Re:what they fail to mention (Score:4, Insightful)
What they fail to mention is that the total cost was more than if 0% had come from renewables.
It's not about costs. It's about saving the frigging planet. A concept that may be too hard to grasp for many of your kind.
Re:what they fail to mention (Score:4, Informative)
That is not true. Electricity in Sweden and Finland costs about 5 eurocents per kWH. That is pretty much as low as price can get without renewables. Well, in theory you could get the same price with 100% nuclear, but not lower anyway. Currently electricity costs about 0.4 eurocents per kWH in Finland, because wind production is high. And for the next 24 hours the price will be lower than that at all times.
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There is no way you could get anywhere near 0.5 cents/kWh for nuclear, not even in theory. It was a pipe dream even when the assumption was that much of the cost would be covered by military uses. Germany doesn't have nuclear weapons anyway.
Re:what they fail to mention (Score:4, Insightful)
What they fail to mention is that the total cost was more than if 0% had come from renewables.
Define "total" cost. Does the "total" include health effects of coal power plants and the cost of disease and cancer? Does that total cost include loss of environment? Does it include recovering from increasingly damaging floods and remediation due to the effects of climate change?
How "total" are your costs? Because economists widely agree that spending money on prevention is an order of magnitude cheaper in "total" cost than staying on the current path.
That's even before you consider the cost of gas vs the cost of wind blowing...
Re: A step in the right direction....but (Score:3)
Europe is so gullible. (Score:2)
25.2% of Energy EU Used in 2024 Came From Renewables
I heard, from a "reliable" source, that renewables are a scam. /s
"Get Away from the Green Scam or Your Country Will Fail" - Trump, the Climate Culture War, and Europe's Dignity [institutmontaigne.org]
Donald Trump stood before the United Nations General Assembly and declared: "Get away from the green scam or your country will fail."
Is that a good thing? (Score:2)
Is clear cutting forests and burning trees the most environmental friendly way to create energy?
74.8% of Energy EU Used in 2024 Came From Fossil F (Score:2)
Doesn't half or more of France s power come from Nuclear?
Easy optimization (Score:1)
Shut down all the non-renewable generating capacity and that number will go to 100% in no time.