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Wind and solar account for around half of all jobs in the EU’s green sector, employing 236,600 and 273,500 people respectively.<\/p>\n
According to Bruegel’s new Clean Tech Tracker, Germany leads the bloc with over 310,000 jobs.<\/p>\n
Most of them are in the wind sector (124,600) and in the solar market\u00a0(85,400)<\/p>\n
France comes next with nearly 86,000 green tech employees, mostly spread across wind (22,100), hydro (19,600) and bioenergy (23,200).<\/p>\n
Splain ranks third in the EU with 67,200 jobs. The vast majority of its green tech workforce is in the solar market (26,320). The same goes for fourth-placed Italy, where nearly 20,000 of its jobs are in that niche.<\/p>\n
Currently, renewables make up about a quarter of all energy used in the EU (24.5% according to Eurostat) and support nearly 950,000 jobs in total.<\/p>\n
EV remain EU’s most profitable exported green energy good<\/p>\n
Since the beginning of the century, the fastest-growing energy source has been wind, which rose by 451Tw\/h across the EU, followed by solar and gas.<\/p>\n
The biggest decliners over the same period have been coal (-481Tw\/h) and nuclear (-240Tw\/h).<\/p>\n
The Bruegel report also looks at EV manufacturing capacity.<\/p>\n
Germany is by far the leader with over 2 million, and a projection to exceed 2.7 million. France is second with 400,000 but it may soon be overtaken by Spain, which plans to reach over 1 million.<\/p>\n
Among green energy goods, electric vehicles were the most profitable export in 2024, bringing in over \u20ac38 billion, followed by EV charging (\u20ac12bn) and batteries (\u20ac11bn).<\/p>\n
Hungary scales up batteries and boosts solar<\/p>\n
When it comes to battery cell capacity, Hungary currently holds the top spot with an operational capacity of 87.5 Gw, closely followed by Poland at 86.5. <\/p>\n
Germany projects to surpass Poland by reaching a capacity of nearly 180Gw, while Budapest is expected to retain the lead with volumes increasing to nearly 190Gw, driven by considerable Chinese investments in the country.<\/p>\n
However, experts cast doubts on the long-term success given that Europe’s EV demand has been struggling <\/a>to take off in recent years.<\/p>\n Hungary is also excelling on the solar front. It has the highest share of energy produced by photovoltaic panels among all 27 EU countries: 24.6%.<\/p>\n