Greece successfully rolling back coal power emissions.

In some wonderful news from the team at Our World In Data,the scale of Greece's energy transition away from Coal has been revealed.

"The chart shows that just over a decade ago, almost half of the country’s power came from coal. This has now fallen to 6%.

As a result, the country’s CO2 emissions from coal have fallen by nearly 90% from their peak, and national emissions as a whole have halved."

This outstanding result should be a reminder of the great potential of solar and wind to replace older, non-renewable, more polluting energy production like coal. Australia, with it's abundance of both wind and year round sunshine is perfectly placed to make a successful transition ourselves - and we should make every effort to make the transition as swiftly as possible.

The full article can be found at - https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/greece-is-turning-its-back-on-coal-and-replacing-it-with-solar-and-wind

You can also find a great graphic representation of global solar and wind power generation over time here