World surges past 40% clean power in record renewables boom | Electrek

[rcjordan]

https://electrek.co/2025/04/07/world-surges-past-40-percent-clean-power-in-record-renewable-boom/

TLDR; More than half of the increase in solar generation in 2024 was in China

[ergophobe]

>> China

Not a big surprise, but the fact that India doubled deployments last year over a year earlier is also very good news. They were, until recently, the world's big proponent of coal. Apparently, the dishonor of that title now passes to the United States.

It used to be when I talked to climate-skeptical conservative friends, they would say, "What about China? What about India?" I guess that conversation is over.

Meanwhile, this was the really interesting nugget:

Heatwaves were the main driver of the rise in fossil generation, accounting for almost a fifth (+0.7%) of the increase in global electricity demand in 2024 (+4.0%), mainly through additional use of cooling. Without these temperature effects, fossil fuel generation would have risen by only 0.2%, as clean electricity generation met 96% of the demand growth not caused by hotter temperatures.