Solar power overtook hard coal as an energy source for the EU in 2022, Eurostat announced on Monday. “In 2022, hard coal for the first time was overtaken by solar energy in electricity generation in the EU,” the statistics authority said in a statement, noting that solar energy produced 210,249 gigawatt hours (GWh) for the EU that year, compared with 205,693 GWh for hard coal. Brown coal, a type of ...
