Solar energy has become the European Union’s main source of electricity for the first time in history this June.
According to official figures, solar accounted for 22% of the bloc’s electricity generation, overtaking nuclear, which produced 21.6%.
Data from Eurostat, the EU’s statistics office, showed that more than half of Europe’s electricity output in the second quarter of 2025 came from renewable sources.
Three countries generated over 90% of their electricity from renewables, while 15 others managed to increase their share of green energy.
“Denmark, with 94.7 per cent, had the highest share of renewables in net electricity generated, followed by Latvia (93.4 per cent) and Austria (91.8 per cent),” Eurostat reported.
“The largest year-on-year increases were recorded in Luxembourg (+13.5 percentage points) and Belgium (+9.1 pp), both driven by growth in solar power,” the agency added.
A 2023 study projected that solar energy would become the world’s leading energy source by 2050.
