This collection of articles provide insights and knowledge about energy topics for non-expert audiences. They are published in English but can be machine translated into all official EU languages (at the top of the page, click on the globe icon and choose your preferred language).
Get your facts straight
The spread of disinformation has become an increasing cause for concern in recent years and in April 2025, we launched, together with the Directorate-General for Climate Action, a new series of short articles to address common myths targeting EU energy and climate topics.
COP30 in Belém comes 33 years after the Rio Summit that established the first international treaty to combat human-caused climate change, and a decade after the Paris Agreement that seeks to enhance global climate action.
Despite their benefits for the climate and our energy security, biogas and biomethane are still subject to persistent myths and misunderstandings. Here are 5 key things you should know.
Carbon pricing - putting a price on pollution - is one of the most effective tools to tackle climate change. It encourages cleaner choices, drives innovation and generates revenues that are reinvested in people and communities to support the clean transition. But it is often misunderstood.
While no single extreme weather event can be blamed solely on climate change, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) makes it clear: human-caused greenhouse gas emissions are very likely to have made weather and climate extremes more frequent and intense.
Solar energy is one of the world’s most abundant and easily accessible sources of renewable power.
In focus articles
We publish one ‘in focus’ article per month, focussing on topical themes that we hope will interest a wide audience of EU citizens.
Renewable and low-carbon hydrogen and its derivatives can help replace the use of fossil fuels in heavy industry and transport. From less than 2% of our consumption in 2022, by 2050, hydrogen is estimated to account for around 10% of the EU’s energy needs.
While renewable energy sources can’t be depleted in the same way as fossil fuels, they are ‘variable’, meaning their availability fluctuates. That’s where energy storage solutions, such as batteries, have a vital role to play.
Energy efficiency – which means using less energy to perform the same tasks – is an essential driver of the clean energy transition.
In 2015, the EU’s energy union strategy set out a bold vision to fundamentally transform our energy system. It envisioned a resilient energy union, with an ambitious climate policy, to deliver secure, sustainable, competitive and affordable energy for all Europeans.
This article explores some of the European Commission’s key initiatives focusing on the social dimension of the energy transition.