Returning With Great News via Mr Stefan P M Chantrel of the Fraunhofer Institute - The European Power Sector in 2019

I have not been very active with this blog in recent years, and that was something that I decided to remedy. Friends who have been following my efforts from way back when I started writing here, told me that I was crazy to let something that they had come to enjoy, die. And then came a stimulus that I am grateful for. I connected on LinkedIn with a number of experts whose help I plan on taking to revive a much needed initiative from 2006 or so. I reached out to some of my new LinkedIn connections for help with information. That came immediately! The world of Energy Research scientists is a very supportive one, and I have to sincerely thank Mr Stefan P Chantrel of the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Research in Freiburg, Germany, for this and several of the forthcoming posts here. He has given me a treasure-trove of information to post, and I hope to do this carefully, and after reading through the very interesting links that he was kind in compiling for me. I must also give credit to the scientists at Agora Energiewende in Germany and at the Ember Coal to Clean Energy Policy think tank in the UK for the report that Mr Chantrel has so kindly provided. I cannot recommend reading this brilliantly compiled report on the European electricity / power sector enough. There is powerful momentum on the European continent towards moving away from traditional fuels to renewable energy, and that is the transition that the transition that the two bodies involved in producing this report have worked hard to map. What blew me away was the fact that coal's share in generation in the EU shrank by 24% in 2019. That is nearly a quarter less coal burned on this huge continent in just one year! While industrial emissions declined only slightly, overall emissions are declining rapidly in a Europe that now generates 35% of it's electricity via Renewables. This is a longish report, certainly, but it is fascinating reading and is beautifully presented for both technical and non technical readers. Most of the information included is very positive, and it certainly warms the heart of a blog that is aimed at Showing Fossil Fuels the Fist. There is a little disappointment over Biomass generation, because my company has long been looking for appropriate biomass gasification technologies for our own use in Europe, but then, you can bet that there are some very enthusiastic and brilliant geniuses working away on something that we shall soon have good news about. Keep checking us out, and please comment / write in. If you would like to communicate privately like some friends prefer, that is also most welcome. Best wishes, and happy reading!