{"id":460852,"date":"2025-09-29T16:28:22","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T16:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/460852\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T16:28:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T16:28:22","slug":"solar-main-source-of-eu-electricity-in-june-with-22-news-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/460852\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar: main source of EU electricity in June with 22% – News articles"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the second quarter of 2025, 54.0% of net electricity generated in the EU<\/a> came from renewable energy sources<\/a>, an increase from the 52.7% registered in the same quarter of 2024. This increase was mostly due to solar energy, which generated a total of 122 317 gigawatt-hours<\/a> (GWh) in the second quarter of 2025, representing 19.9% of the total electricity generation mix.\u00a0<\/p>\n

June 2025 was the first month in history where solar energy (22.0%) was the main source of electricity generated in the EU, ahead of nuclear (21.6%), wind (15.8%), hydro (14.1%) and natural gas (13.8%).\u00a0<\/p>\n

Among EU countries, in the second quarter of 2025, Denmark, with 94.7%, had the highest share of renewables in net electricity generated, followed by Latvia (93.4%), Austria (91.8%), Croatia (89.5%) and Portugal (85.6%). The lowest shares of renewables were recorded in Slovakia (19.9%), Malta (21.2%) and Czechia (22.1%).\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Share<\/a><\/p>\n

Source dataset: nrg_cb_pem<\/a><\/p>\n

In 15 EU countries, the share of renewable energy sources in net electricity generation increased in the second quarter of 2025. The largest year-on-year increases were recorded in Luxembourg (+13.5 percentage points<\/a> (pp)) and Belgium (+9.1 pp), both of them due to the increase in solar energy.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Most of the electricity generated from renewable sources came from solar (36.8%), wind (29.5%) and hydro (26.0%), followed by combustible renewable fuels (7.3%) and geothermal energy (0.4%).<\/p>\n

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