{"id":530751,"date":"2026-07-03T08:07:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T08:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/530751\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T08:07:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T08:07:11","slug":"renewables-generated-45-5-of-eu-electricity-in-q1-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/530751\/","title":{"rendered":"Renewables generated 45.5% of EU electricity in Q1 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Renewable energy sources accounted for 45.5% of electricity generated in the EU during the first quarter of 2026 (Q1 2026), according to data published by Eurostat, the official statistical office of the European Union. <\/p>\n

The figure is an increase on the first quarter of 2025 (Q1 2025), when the share was 42.7%.<\/p>\n

Solar accounted for 17.3% of renewable electricity in the EU during Q1 2026. The percentage makes solar the third largest form of renewable electricity in the bloc, behind wind and hydro power.<\/p>\n

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Eurostat\u2019s database adds that solar generated 58.8 TWh of electricity in Q1 2026, comprising 10.8 TWh in January, 15 TWh in February and 33 TWh in March.\u00a0<\/p>\n

For comparison, solar generated 55.3 TWh of electricity in Q1 2025, with 10.5 TWh in January 2025, 16.5 TWh in February 2025 and 28.3 TWh in March 2025.<\/p>\n

Total net electricity generation across all sources in Q1 2026 reached around 746.6 TWh, compared to 718.3 TWh in Q1 2025.<\/p>\n

Eurostat\u2019s analysis adds that among EU countries, the highest share of electricity from renewable sources in Q1 2026 was generated in Denmark, at 90%, mostly from wind energy. Portugal ranked second, at 82.9%, thanks mostly to hydro energy, with Lithuania in third, at 75%, generated mostly by wind.<\/p>\n

On the other end of the scale, Slovakia, Malta and Czechia recorded the lowest shares of electricity from renewables in Q1 2026, with 17.2%, 13% and 12.7%.<\/p>\n

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Solar generated a record 369 TWh<\/a> of electricity across the EU in 2025, according to figures compiled by Ember, equivalent to a record 13% share. <\/p>\n

Renewables generated 47.7% of the total energy mix across the bloc last year, 0.2% down on 2024. Despite the decrease, solar and wind generated more energy in the EU than fossil fuels for the first time in history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Renewable energy sources accounted for 45.5% of electricity generated in the EU during the first quarter of 2026…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":530752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[246,1813,61,60,82],"class_list":["post-530751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-europe","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/530752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}