Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 fundamentally changed the energy landscape in Europe, as Germany, France and their neighbors scrambled to ditch Russian fossil fuels.
The effort showed how quickly a modern economy can change its energy sources when it really tries. Last year, European nations erected wind turbines and solar panels at a faster pace than they had managed previously. Governments passed heat-pump incentives to switch heating processes from fossil gas to electricity, unleashing more heat-pump sales in 2022 than ever before.energy
