> June 2025 was a milestone month: Solar became the EU’s single largest electricity source for the first time ever.
Yes June was a record for Solar power production due to an amazing weather.... But it was a pure disaster for Solar power profitability with an all time low.
The peak was too large for the grid to consume and the price went negative (or null) for the entire month during the solar hours.
That should bring serious questions on the ROI of any future investment in solar capacity and about Europe electricity storage capacity.
The article ignores that entirely.
https://www.rte-france.com/eco2mix/les-donnees-de-marche#
> Some countries are already nearly 100% renewable. Denmark led with an impressive 94.7% share of renewables in net electricity generated
This is also miss-leading. Production does not mean Consumption.
Denmark is very far from 94% consumption based on renewable. It rely heavily on import from German grid (Coal and Gaz powered) almost every night and this is a disaster in term of CO2 emission.
That leads to emissions over ~140CO2g/kwh in average, meaning way over what other Scandinavians countries are able to do (e.g Sweden < 15gCO2/kwh)
https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/zone/DK-DK1/3mo/daily
> In total, 15 EU countries saw their share of renewable generation rise year-over-year.
Yes but that does not mean CO2 emissions are falling (which should be the only thing that matter).
Belgium is closing perfectly working nuclear powerplants recently that are providing around 30% of the country consumption.
Meaning the country CO2 emission are expected to increase significantly this year due to that and this is just plain stupid. Spain might follow a similar track and this is disastrous.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_Belgium
In short, please stop this kind of article.
- Renewable are good but what Europe need is massive investment in energy storage through battery and/or pump hydro. And this is nowhere here. Blind praise in solar capacity is counterproductive.
- If we do not carefully control our current capacity of non-controllable renewable in Europe, we might doom the ROI of an entire industry for the decades to come. And this is the taxpayer will have to sponge all this mess financially speaking.
- What matters is CO2 emission and CO2 reduction, not renewable capacity. This kind of article favors wrong political decisions by putting first and foremost renewable capacity as the only metric that matters. The Belgian nuclear situation is one of these terrible decisions.