Solar power to the rescue as Europe’s energy system weathers extreme heat::Solar power helps meet energy demand for cooling.
Solar power to the rescue as Europe’s energy system weathers extreme heat::Solar power helps meet energy demand for cooling.
As per the intro, this whole article is only about southern Europe with extreme heat. Same for the solar output, which across Europe fell in July 2023 compared to 2022. It’s just higher in southern countries compared to 2022.
In most of Europe, this summer is cold, wet and windy. So for most of Europe, without that much sun in summer, it’s the very windy conditions causing the cold summer, that pumps most of the renewable electricity. Just last week, wind generated 22% more electricity compared to the week in 2022.
So overall it’s split and respectively the other renewable technology having large gains, depending on where in Europe you look.