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.
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.
Did you know that wind energy is one of the cleanest, most affordable and home-grown sources of energy?
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.
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.
Fusion is the energy source of the sun and other stars, and has the potential to provide clean, cost-efficient, and safe energy to power Europe’s future.
Wind energy can be harnessed both onshore and offshore and plays a key role in the clean energy transition.