taking into account the accident at fukushima daiichi the lea s world energy outlook iea b assumed that the european union s electricity production from nuclear will remain roughly stable until at twh per year and that hydro will increase only slightly from twh in to twh in given the gradual decline of production from coal and oilfired power plants and the forecasted increase of total electricity consumption from twh in to twh in this means that the electricity produced by wind and solarpower will need to expand substantially the weo already assumed an expansion by of wind power from twh in to twh in and an almost fivefold increase in solar power from twh to twh over the same period