L R AS Published on Saturday 2 September 2023 - n° 455 - Categories:Europe
Record renewable energy production in Europe in the first half of the year
For the first time, solar and wind energy accounted for 30% of electricity production in the EU in May and July. It increased by
13% in the first half of the year compared to 2022. According to Ember, 17 of the EU's 27 countries recorded record renewable energy production in the first six months of the year. Greece and Romania exceeded 50% consumption for the first time, while Denmark and Portugal reached 75%. This is because demand for electricity has fallen by 5% compared to the same period last year. As a result, fossil fuel production fell by 17% year-on-year to its lowest level ever, at 33% of demand.
This increase in production is explained by the addition of production capacity in certain countries: Germany increased its capacity by 6.5 GW in thefirst half of the year. Renewable energies (solar, wind, hydro) supplied more than half (52%) of electricity consumption in the first half of 2023.
Italy more than doubled its installed solar photovoltaic capacity in the first half of 2023 to 2.5 GW, compared with 1 GW last year. Over the year as a whole, it added 3 GW of solar capacity.
The growth in capacity additions across the EU is set to continue, as reflected in the updated National Climate Energy Plans (NCEP) of many countries.
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The obstacle to the growth of solar and wind generation comes from increasingly frequent negative prices, persistent grid congestion and a lack of electricity.congestion and increased transmission between regions and borders, which is necessary to support the growth of renewable energies.
https://www.pv-tech.org/solar-pushes-europes-clean-power-growth-in-h1-2023/
PV Tech of 30 August 2023
Editor's note The voluntary nature of the installation of panels has not been accompanied by any overall planning or strategy. Now that renewable energies are reaching a respectable size, problems are appearing, such as negative prices more and more often due to a concentration of production, and saturation of the electricity grid. These two limitations need to be resolved before we can envisage a sustainable process of installations.
