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As is usual in this kind of articles, the headline says “power” where it means “electricity”. FTA:

“For the first time, solar was the largest source of electricity in the EU last month, supplying a record 22 percent of the bloc’s power.”

Great result, but not “biggest source of power” yet.

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I must be missing something, what other type of power would they be referring to when talking about solar?

Power used to drive the wheels of cars & trucks, energy used to heat houses.

I'm not sure this makes sense? If you have a solar system setup at home, with a battery, electric heating and also ev charger, then it's all the same thing. Or am I misunderstanding something?

Electricity is a type of energy, but all energy isn't electricity. The total amount of energy is electricity + non-electricity energy, and solar doesn't yet equal to greater than 50% of that total.

No, this is an important distinction as different energy sources can be used to do the same thing.

For example, you can run a boiler to do electricity and/or district heating. Very common in Sweden for example.

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