Use of solar and wind power plants on the increase in Europe

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coverPower_facts.pngIn the last three years, the capacity of renewable energy sources, such as solar and wind power plants, connected to the European power system has increased twice as fast as in the US, according to the PowerFacts Europe 2019 publication by the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity (ENTSO-E).

In the last three years, the capacity of renewable energy sources, such as solar and wind power plants, connected to the European power system has increased twice as fast as in the US, according to the PowerFacts Europe 2019 publication by the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity (ENTSO-E).

During the period from 2015 to 2018, the increase of capacity of solar and wind power plants connected to the European power system was 54 gigawatts, while the increase in the United States over the same period was almost two times lower.

Six sections of the PowerFacts Europe 2019 publication are devoted to information about the activities of the European transmission system operators (TSOs) in the areas of sustainability, integration of electricity markets, security of supply, infrastructure, customer and digital networks and is mainly based on information provided by the TSOs themselves.

ENTSO-E stresses that transparency of information is one of the association's priorities, and that this publication complements the Transparency Platform (https://transparency.entsoe.eu), which has been available for a number years now and is updated every 15 minutes, the previously published ENTSO-E 10-year development plans and their visualisation in maps, as well as the adopted Network Codes, which are now also available as a mobile app.

The Latvian transmission system operator JSC Augstsprieguma tīkls has been a member of ENTSO-E since 2005. The association brings together 43 electricity transmission system operators from 36 European countries. The PowerFacts Europe 2019 publication is available here.