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In 2025, for the first time, two sources together generated more of the EU's electricity than fossil fuels did.
Wind and solar together overtook fossil fuels in EU electricity generation in 2025, edging past coal and gas for the first time as renewable capacity kept expanding across the bloc. This milestone reflects years of steady investment in wind farms and solar installations, which have become cheaper and more widespread, gradually eating into the share once dominated by fossil-fuel power plants.
Coal and gas are the fossil fuels that were actually overtaken in this story, not the winning combination, and nuclear and hydro, while important low-carbon sources, are separate technologies that were not the pair credited with this particular milestone.
Reaching this tipping point took years of steadily falling costs for wind turbines and solar panels, technology that was once far more expensive than fossil-fuel power but has become increasingly competitive, reshaping electricity markets across Europe and beyond.
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