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Electricty generation in the EU is up since 1990 by 23%. The EUs consumption based emissions are higher then production based ones, both have fallen over the last three decades. .
We are talking about EU fossil fuel electricity here and that is indeed going down, not due to lower electricity consumption, but due to more low carbon electricity. At least long term it is.
That's incredibly misleading. 1990 is 33 years ago and a lot has changed. For one thing, nuclear is still carrying its weight when it comes to power generation. Many outdated power plants were shut down, especially coal being replaced by natural gas. Also, the overall economy had grown significant since then. So power consumption should have grown by a lot, but in reality it plateaued after 2008. And 2008 is telling, because that is about when the EU's economy began to stagnate. Deindustrialization really began about that time too.
Take into account non-electricity fossil fuel consumption and it's easy to explain where the emissions went. People will probably look back at that period and realize it was a major act of greenwashing and careful fudging of the numbers.