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.
Is this installed capacity, or actual power output? If installed capacity, you’ll need a lot more than 100% since that’s just the nameplate max capacity, not the average. I’m glad we’ve gotten this far, but we still need to transition to 100% or more very soon.
It’s generated electricity, not installed capacity:
https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/renewable-electricity-2023
key part: includes hydropower. The world was at 20% already in 1985.
The trend line looks good though, we’ve been mostly maxed out on hydropower for decades.
Not really
Cool. I guess I was thinking in the US. Globally is still getting more
I’d assume electricity consumption has grown a lot faster than hydropower capacity since then.
A bit. We have basically done x2.5 in electricity production since 1985 and x2 in hydropower.