By Paul Homewood
h/t Patsy Lacey
I see Silly Jilly is still shilling for renewables!
Renewable energy accounted for more than 30% of the world’s electricity for the first time last year following a rapid rise in wind and solar power, according to new figures.
A report on the global power system has found that the world may be on the brink of driving down fossil fuel generation, even as overall demand for electricity continues to rise.
Clean electricity has already helped to slow the growth in fossil fuels by almost two-thirds in the past 10 years, according to the report by climate thinktank Ember. It found that renewables have grown from 19% of electricity in 2000 to more than 30% of global electricity last year.
“The renewables future has arrived,” said Dave Jones, Ember’s director of global insights. “Solar, in particular, is accelerating faster than anyone thought possible.”
So wind and solar power are soon going to drive out fossil fuels then?
Well maybe not!
The share of renewables in the electricity mix did rise slightly last year, from 29.4% to 30.2%. Hardly Earth shattering!
https://ourworldindata.org/electricity-mix
And what Silly Jilly conveniently forgot to tell you was that hydro power makes up nearly half of the renewable generation. There is of course little room for any further significant increase in hydro capacity.
Biomass also contributed 8% of renewable output.
As for solar and wind power, they only accounted for 13.3% of the world’s electricity, up from 11.9% in 2022.
Fossil fuel generation also increased in absolute terms in 2023, by 1%, and still supplies 61% of the world’s electricity.
The chances of that coming down anytime soon is for the birds.