100 billion euros for energy in the EU, blocked - Why are Europeans waiting years for clean energy?
More than €100 billion worth of renewables are stuck in Europe’s aging energy grid, as communities across the continent wait years for solar panels. A new report from consultancy group AFRY found that a whopping 375 gigawatts of clean energy projects and 455 GW of battery storage projects are stuck in the distribution grid across the continent.
To put this into perspective, a 1GW power plant operating continuously all year round could power approximately 876,000 households per year. Without intervention, the report – which analyses Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland, Spain and the UK – warns that Europe risks “deepening” its dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels.
Despite Europe’s renewable energy boom, which saved the EU 51 billion euros last year by cutting oil and gas imports, almost a third (29 percent) of the bloc’s electricity mix still comes from fossil fuels. Experts argue that the connection queues for renewable energy and storage projects are becoming more congested.
Europe's energy grid was initially built around coal and later gas, which tends to run from centrally located power plants. However, green energy, such as wind and solar farms, tends to be located in remote areas - including offshore - making distribution more difficult.
The bloc's proposed European Grids Package, which was presented by the European Commission in 2025, aims to address this issue - promising €1.2 trillion in grid investment by 2040, along with more than 500 gigawatts of new renewable capacity.
The package also includes “strategic energy highways” that will address eight key bottlenecks across Europe, which the Commission says represent “the most urgent energy infrastructure needs.”
This includes connecting electricity across the Pyrenees to better integrate the Iberian Peninsula, ending electricity isolation between Cyprus and mainland Europe, and strengthening the electricity interconnection of the Baltic States to increase energy independence from Russia.
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