Despite making strong gains against coal and natural gas, Europe’s renewable energy growth needs to grow faster to reach the EU’s climate targets, according to new research.
Europe saw its “greenest electricity year on record” in 2020, with renewables generating 38% of the continent’s electricity in 2020, a new report from think tanks Agora Energiewende and Ember states.
Called ‘The European Power Sector in 2020’, it found that one fifth of electricity was generated by wind and solar plants, while coal power generation fell to just 13% last year, compared with 26% five years ago. However, solar power still makes up just 5% of Europe’s energy mix, the report said, up from 3% in 2015.
