Energy, in 2022 Europe produced more from wind and solar than from gas

The Vice-President of the European Commission with responsibility for the Green Deal Frans Timmermans is also satisfied.“We are seeing a remarkable acceleration of renewables. Especially with regard to theoffshore wind and rooftop solar, the numbers are staggering” he has declared. “This shows that our goal of the 45% renewable energy by 2030 is ambitious but entirely feasible”.

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In Italy, gas still accounts for half

In Italy things are different. From an analysis of Wired on the dataset provided by Ember, it appears that in Italy electricity generation from wind and solar in 2022 stopped at 17.08%with the aggregate of all renewables standing at 36.44%. Gas still counts for half: well the 50.68%with the total of fossil fuels at 63.56% and coal at 7.6%.

To keep Italy company there is theIreland (48.57% of electricity from gas) a little further down, detached by ten points, the Greece (37.3%). Little Malta is in the black with 83.87%. Considering the virtuosos of solar and wind power, leading all are Denmark (60.81%), Lithuania (48.44%), Luxembourg (47.06%), then Portugal (34.8%), Ireland (34.18), Greece ( 33.33%), Spain (33.22). Very bad also for Slovenia (3.39%), Slovakia (2.55%), Lithuania (3.95%), Czech Republic (3.71%).

Interesting to see the data of coal: 42.29% in Bulgaria, 43.44% in the Czech Republic, 31.05% in Germany and even 69.27% ​​in Poland. On bioenergy, Estonia (29.86%), Finland (19.35% and small Luxembourg (33.61%) are strong, with Italy at 6.59%. The data on thehydroelectricwhich strongly depends on thehydro-orography: in front of all there are Austria (even 55.76%), Latvia (54.74%), Sweden (40.28) and Croatia (37.89%). Our country is at 10.74%.

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Cool the enthusiasm

In Italy the reactions are lukewarm. “Gas used for other purposes, such as warm up and theindustrystill makes it a major sourceUnfortunately – explains to Wired Italy Maria Grazia Midulla, energy manager of WWF Italy -. Although it should be noted that the heat pumps (powered by electricity, ed) they keep getting strongerafter the energy crisis”.