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Renewable Friday: The Path to 100% Renewables in Europe [1]

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Date: 2025-07-25

Solar in Europe doubles in four years, up to 18% of Europe’s electricity demand. Suppose we can get two more doublings in eight years, plus wind and whatever. That would be Europe done and dusted. Spain is already at 100% renewables, as noted below. Norway has had more than 90% EV and hybrid sales for several years. China is racing ahead, and most of the world is now serious about renewables—the $$Real Money$$TM people everywhere, with governments sometimes lagging. Denialism is on the ropes with courts having started to allow all sorts of suits against the lying Oil and Gaslighters.

Much will still go wrong, but our way is clear to Peak Carbon, to Net Zero, to Peak Humanity, and to going strongly carbon negative and actually cooling Planet A back down.

x With half of 2025 already underway, it's time to share some of our latest stats.

Our first headline? Solar is having its best quarter yet, with ☀️ generation meeting 18% of Europe’s electricity demand, a record share. This makes it the main source of electricity for the first time ever in June!



[image or embed] — Beyond Fossil Fuels (@beyondfossilfuels.bsky.social) July 22, 2025 at 4:25 AM

As ever, there is much that you can do personally with substantial impact.

Get rooftop solar panels

Get a power storage system

Get an EV

Get a heat pumpdea

Get an induction cooktop

You can do the small stuff too, about your diet, or compost, or plastic, as we have reviewed in the last few months. Don’t stop just because it’s small.

There is much that you can do politically. See our regular Good News Roundups for many good ideas.

And you can share this post all around on DK and Bluesky and wherever else you hang out.

So you know how Tesla’s self-driving cars are having so much trouble? Check this out.

x Europe is crushing ICE under the weight of progress. 📈 BEVs: +22.0%

🔌 PHEVs: +19.5%

💥 Petrol: –21.2%

🪦 Diesel: –28.1% Legacy automakers clinging to Stone Age combustion are getting steamrolled. This isn’t a shift—it’s an exponential, free-market reckoning. Adapt or vanish. #EVs #Disruption #RIPICE



[image or embed] — EV Curve Futurist (@evcurvefuturist.com) July 24, 2025 at 7:01 PM

x Latest News: Europe's Battery Manufacturing Hits 300GWh Milestone: Europe now has 30 operational gigafactories delivering 300GWh. This shift marks a major step in building a homegrown, full-spectrum battery industry. #EuropeMiddleEastAfrica #ElectricVehicles #AsiaPacific Read More



[image or embed] — Environment+Energy Leader (@eeleader.bsky.social) July 24, 2025 at 5:55 PM

x Congratulations to Spain, which has crossed the 100% renewable threshold for its national grid. This is an important step towards a full-time 💯 renewable grid. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨🔋🌊 www.pv-magazine.com/2025/04/22/s...



[image or embed] — Joseph D. Ortiz (@earthsciinfo.bsky.social) July 22, 2025 at 11:32 AM

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x With half of 2025 already underway, it's time to share some of our latest stats.

Our first headline? Solar is having its best quarter yet, with ☀️ generation meeting 18% of Europe’s electricity demand, a record share. This makes it the main source of electricity for the first time ever in June!



[image or embed] — Beyond Fossil Fuels (@beyondfossilfuels.bsky.social) July 22, 2025 at 4:25 AM

x A new study by the University of Sydney has uncovered a new, efficient way to produce #ammonia – using artificial lightning to produce it from thin air. ⚡ sustainabilityonline.net?p=13307



[image or embed] — SustainabilityOnline (@susonline.bsky.social) July 23, 2025 at 7:13 AM

x Battery energy storage developer Apatura has received planning consent to construct a 560 MW/1120 MWh grid-scale battery energy storage system (BESS) near Clydebank in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland. Read more www.saurenergy.com/solar-energy... #energystorage



[image or embed] — Saur Energy (@saurenergy.bsky.social) July 24, 2025 at 1:12 AM

x JSW Energy Ltd, BESCOM Sign PPA for Solar Plus Storage Project at Rs. 4.31/kWh After this, the Company's total locked-in energy storage capacity sta Read more www.saurenergy.com/solar-energy... #IndiaEnergy #energystorage



[image or embed] — Saur Energy (@saurenergy.bsky.social) July 24, 2025 at 12:58 AM

x EcoFlow's Ocean Pro outperforms Tesla's Powerwall with more power, flood resistance, and energy monitoring capabilities. A game-changer in whole-home energy solutions. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate #CleanTech #EnergyStorage #ClimateResilient #SmartGrid



[image or embed] — Bri Chapman - tech for people & planet 💖 (@brichapman.com) July 22, 2025 at 11:44 AM

x Crusoe and Redwood deploy 12MW #solar + 63MWh second-life #EV battery microgrid, powering GPU-optimized, off-grid AI data centers. Circular storage meets modular compute at scale.

www.datacenterfrontier.com/energy/artic...

#AI #digitalinfrastructure #datacenters #BESS #secondlifebatteries #microgrid



[image or embed] — Data Center Frontier (@datacenterfrontier.bsky.social) July 22, 2025 at 11:26 AM

x Next-generation #geothermal technologies could become a vital part of #California’s clean energy portfolio – if there is a coordinated effort to reduce permitting barriers and modernize regulations.

www.catf.us/2025/06/perm...



[image or embed] — Clean Air Task Force (@cleanaircatf.bsky.social) July 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM

Denial and Obstruction vs. Resistance

This is a non-binding decision. I don’t know what it would take to give it teeth.

x The International Court of Justice has opened the door for climate-vulnerable nations to sue for damages, recognizing their suffering and right to compensation. da.gd/OfLkJK #ClimateJustice #ICJRuling #GlobalWarming #VulnerableNations #DopeNews #HistoricDecision #ClimateAction



[image or embed] — Dope News (@dopenewslive.bsky.social) July 23, 2025 at 12:30 PM

x #Globalwarming is life threatening. Today 100 million Americans are under #heatalerts, about 12 million will face #extremeheatof 110 degrees to as high as 120 degrees! Many southern cities are warning of #lethalheat telling people to stay inside yet Trump is rolling back climate change policies🥵



[image or embed] — Jean Quan 关丽珍 (@jeanquan.bsky.social) July 24, 2025 at 4:38 AM

x Contact your senators to reject #FERC nominees that favor fossil fuels. They don't belong on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. #SunDay #solarenergy #climateaction



[image or embed] — Third Act Arizona (@thirdactaz.bsky.social) July 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM

Did you know that Global Warming damage is predicted to get into the hundreds of terabucks? All of the fossil fuel deposits in the world are valued at something in the tens of terabucks.

You know what, Fossil Fools? Fuggedaboudit.

x US Supreme Court declines to hear challenge to lawsuit filed by Honolulu against oil giants over their role in global warming Dozens suits brought by state & local govts argue oil giants engaged coverups about #ClimateChange in quest for profit & demand reparations

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/c...



[image or embed] — Lotte Leicht (@lotteleicht.bsky.social) January 15, 2025 at 8:02 AM

x Will Charleston’s Climate Lawsuit Survive the Week?

The city is suing oil companies over global warming. Trump says lawsuits like these threaten national security. The judge wants to hear what both sides think. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/c...



[image or embed] — StuFalk (@stufalk.bsky.social) May 29, 2025 at 8:09 PM

x An informative article on how the destructive actions of the Trump administration have knock-on effects on the atmospheric science community worldwide: measurements are lost, collaborations are falling apart. It's hard, but we must stand together. 🧪



[image or embed] — Dr Oleg Kozhura (@olegkozhura.bsky.social) July 11, 2025 at 3:15 PM

x 91% of renewables are cheaper than fossil fuels, but Trump just defunded a vital US grid upgrade

->Electrek | #Renewable #FossilFuel #NoDecency #TrumpFascism #ClimateChange | More info from EcoSearch



[image or embed] — Climate, Ecology, War and More by Dr. Glen Barry (@bigearthdata.bsky.social) July 23, 2025 at 10:23 PM

x Good morning from Oakland and the Office of Administrative Hearings, where we are resuming the hearing in the matter of the California DMV's complaint against Tesla for misleading advertising of its Autopilot and "Full Self-Driving Capability." First up we will hear from witness Bryant Walker Smith. — e.w. niedermeyer (@niedermeyer.online) July 22, 2025 at 11:06 AM

Land grab bogosity, as though there were no agrivoltaics.

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