{"id":357696,"date":"2026-07-16T01:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T01:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/solar-just-became-europes-biggest-source-of-electricity-heres-the-milestone-it-hit\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T01:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T01:03:09","slug":"solar-just-became-europes-biggest-source-of-electricity-heres-the-milestone-it-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/solar-just-became-europes-biggest-source-of-electricity-heres-the-milestone-it-hit\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar just became Europe\u2019s biggest source of electricity \u2013 here\u2019s the milestone it hit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/07\/solar-just-became-europes-biggest-source-of-electricity-heres-the-milestone-it-hit.jpg\" alt=\"Electrek\"><\/p>\n<p>Solar power reached a new milestone across Europe last month, generating a record 52 terawatt-hours (TWh) of electricity and supplying 25% of all electricity used in the European Union in June 2026, according to new analysis from energy think tank Ember. <a href=https:\/\/electrek.co\/2026\/07\/15\/solar-just-became-europes-biggest-source-of-electricity-heres-the-milestone-it-hit\/ target=blank>Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/solar-just-became-europes-biggest-source-of-electricity-heres-the-milestone-it-hit\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":357697,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-357696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electrek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}