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BRUSSELS (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin unwittingly accelerated the European Union’s green transition with his war in Ukraine, with the 27-nation bloc reducing its dependency on Russian fossil fuels and increasing its renewable energy use over the past year, the EU’s climate czar said Tuesday. The EU also introduced embargoes on Russian coal and oil, accompanied by a price cap on Russian oil exports. But the weapon turned against him, and it has sped up.”Some EU member countries reduced their natural gas consumption by more than 20% this year, Timmermans said. The war “is changing the way we relate to energy and it’s helping us understand that we need to move quicker in terms of renewable energy,” he added. According to a review by global energy think tank Ember, “a massive scale-up in clean energy is on its way” in Europe.
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