Good to see fossil fuel's contributing to electricity generation decrease. But shouldn't we want to see increasing electricity generation? It's a decade of horizontal, and electricity is still only a quarter of all energy consumption in the EU..
Absolutely, although I suspect many people underestimate the degree to which high energy costs also drive efficiency innovation. For example, the main thing tech companies with servers care about is performance per watt, and that’s where most of the gains have been in computing for the past ~15 years. A typical laptop lasts 5 times longer than it used to between charges, and not because the batteries have gotten 5 times better.
Not to say there aren’t more depressing reasons for energy consumption flatlining.
Good to see fossil fuel's contributing to electricity generation decrease. But shouldn't we want to see increasing electricity generation? It's a decade of horizontal, and electricity is still only a quarter of all energy consumption in the EU..
Absolutely, although I suspect many people underestimate the degree to which high energy costs also drive efficiency innovation. For example, the main thing tech companies with servers care about is performance per watt, and that’s where most of the gains have been in computing for the past ~15 years. A typical laptop lasts 5 times longer than it used to between charges, and not because the batteries have gotten 5 times better.
Not to say there aren’t more depressing reasons for energy consumption flatlining.