Production – record by photovoltaics in the European Union

Solar photovoltaic panels this summer contributed 12% of the electricity consumed by the European Union, a record level that allowed the continent to avoid importing 20 billion cubic meters at a potential price of 29 billion euros, according to a report by the Ember think tank given in public today.

Between May and August, electricity production from photovoltaic systems reached 99.4 terawatt hours (TWh), according to the think tank, which specializes in energy issues.

According to his report, 18 of the 27 EU member states recorded this summer electricity generation records by converting solar energy to electricity, especially the Netherlands (23% of the energy mix), Germany (19%) and Spain (17%).

France, on the other hand, is below average, with just 7.7% of the country’s electricity generation coming from photovoltaic systems this summer.

The strongest increase in electricity production in this way was recorded in Poland, where it increased 26-fold, followed by Finland and Hungary, where it increased five-fold, notes Ember, which drew data from the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity (TENSO).

Without that output, the EU would have been forced to import an extra 20 billion cubic meters of gas, analysts estimated, at a cost of 29 billion euros at prices recorded between May and August.

The increase in production from the summer of 2021 to the summer of 2022 (22 TWh) allowed 4 billion cubic meters of gas to be saved in four months, worth more than 6 billion euros.

Nevertheless, although production from photovoltaic systems is accelerating, their development is still considered insufficient. According to Ember’s predictions, the continent will have installed less than half of what it needs to meet the EU’s 2030 energy and climate targets in the coming years.

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