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by 3eb7988a1663
8 hours ago
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For people who are interested in this space should very much read EMBER. They make digestable, data rich reporting. The latest 2025 summary report[0] has some great information, some top-level call-outs - Solar power alone met 75% of the net increase in electricity demand. Together with wind, the two sources met almost all (99%) demand growth.
- For the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, and only the fifth time this century, fossil generation did not rise, recording a small fall of 38 TWh (-0.2%)
- For the first time in 100 years, renewables (33.8%, 10,730 TWh) overtook coal power (33.0%, 10,476 TWh) in the global electricity mix...
[0] https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/global-electricity-... |
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