Renewables Overtake Coal As World’s Biggest Source Of Electricity

Renewables Overtake Coal As World’s Biggest Source Of Electricity

Renewables Overtake Coal As World’s Biggest Source Of Electricity The solar arrays at the Kubuqi Desert, 2024 – credit: NASA’s Earth Observatory. Renewable energy sources like solar and wind produced more electricity during the first half of the year than any other energy resource, including coal. To bullet another massive accomplishment in the clean energy transition, of the cumulative demand for new power worldwide, renewables met 100% of it. Coal has been the world’s most-consumed energy resource for the last 50-and-a-bit years. It held that position up until last year. But with costs in the solar energy market falling 99.9% since 1975, it’s becoming so much more feasible to use as an energy source for low and middle-income countries. China continued its full-throttle deployment of renewable energy resources, adding more clean energy than the whole world combined last year, reducing its fossil fuel consumption by 2% even as it adds to its fleet of coal power plants. This data comes from …