Energy Atlas | Böll.Spotlight

100% renewable energy in Europe is viable nowTechnology now
available makes a 100% renewable energy system viable, according to
the ‘Energy Atlas’ 2018. The new report – a unique and
comprehensive summary of facts and graphics on renewable energy in
Europe, with country-by-country data – exposes the dramatic advance
of renewable energy and the future shape of energy in Europe.
However, the transition is far from complete, a sizeable domestic
market for green technology is needed. European politics must
un-rig the rules favouring polluting energy monopolies and get
behind citizens building Europe’s 100% renewable future, as the
energy transition can only succeed as a European project. The
Energy Atlas 2018 comes as EU energy ministers, MEPs and EU Energy
Commissioner Miguel Arias Cañete reach a crunch point in
negotiations on the next generation of energy legislation – talks
that will be decisive for Europe’s energy transition going into one
of the last-chance decades for climate change action. How far has
the energy transition already gone? How have European citizens
empowered themselves as actors in this transition? What is it like
to be a prosumer or citizens cooperative producing renewable
electricity? How can 100% renewable energy create jobs and fight
energy poverty? What needs still to be done? These are some of the
questions Abby D’Arcy investigates in this edition of our
böll.spotlight podcast series.