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Less than 25% of the EU’s electricity came from fossil fuels in April (www.euronews.com)
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[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago

I'm no expert, but from what I've read, particularly solar has gotten extremely cheap over the past 15 years. You do need storage capacity and other energy generation methods to go along with solar, so the true cost is a bit complexer.
But yeah, I assume this rapid change is happening now, because renewables are simply cheaper than other energy generation methods.