Europe’s ‘staggering’ clean power gains undermined by failure to phase out fuel-burning machines

Despite adding almost enough solar panels and wind turbines each year, the EU’s sluggish pace of electrification leaves households exposed to higher bills. Photograph: Pascal Rossignol/Reuters

Europe has made “staggering progress” in producing clean power but neglected efforts to phase out fuel-burning machines, the head of an industry group said as the global oil crisis deepens.

Adrian Hiel, director of the Electrification Alliance, said the EU has “radically transformed” its power supply and must now focus on getting “more electricity into the stuff we use every day”.