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Renewable energy passes 30% of world’s electricity supply (www.theguardian.com)

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's generated electricity, not installed capacity:

https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/renewable-electricity-2023

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

key part: includes hydropower. The world was at 20% already in 1985.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The trend line looks good though, we've been mostly maxed out on hydropower for decades.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Not really

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Cool. I guess I was thinking in the US. Globally is still getting more

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'd assume electricity consumption has grown a lot faster than hydropower capacity since then.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

A bit. We have basically done x2.5 in electricity production since 1985 and x2 in hydropower.