What went right this week: Europe’s energy ‘tipping point’, plus more – Positive News

For the first time, homegrown clean power generated more electricity than fossil fuels in the EU last year – a milestone described by experts as a major “tipping point”.   

A review of the EU’s energy sector by Ember, a thinktank, revealed that wind and solar generated 30.1% of electricity in 2025, just edging out fossil power sources, which generated 29.0%. Hydro and nuclear provided the rest.

“This milestone moment shows just how quickly things are changing in the EU’s power sector,” said energy analyst Dr Beatrice Petrovich. 

The boom in green energy is not just good news for the climate, though. “For the EU, risks of energy blackmail from fossil fuel exporters loomed large in 2025,” the report noted. “Investing in homegrown renewables is a key strategy to lower that risk, as geopolitics continue to destabilise.”

While the EU is managing to wean itself off Russian gas, it has become more dependent on imported liquified natural gas from the US. “The next challenge will be to put a serious dent in the EU’s reliance on expensive, imported gas,” said Petrovich. 

Key to that, she added, will be battery deployment, which the report said “accelerated significantly” last year in the EU.

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