The world has produced more than 40 percent of electricity from clean energy sources for the first time since World War II last year, says a new report from a global energy research reservoir.
Emper said in its report on Tuesday that the amazing growth in solar energy has led the charge, doubled every three years since 2012.
Along with nuclear energy, hydroelectric energy and increased wind energy, low -emission electricity generation has now reached 40.9 percent.
“The solar energy has become a global energy engine,” said Phil McDonald, the London -based Ember Administrative Director. “As the fastest source of growth and largest electricity, it is important to meet the growing demand in the world.”
However, clean electricity was barely able to keep pace with the rise in the new demand, which means that it has not yet been cut off the share of fossil fuels from the electricity market to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Eber believes this was about to happen last year.
Global Electricity Review for 2024 expected that the fossil fuel share in the generation of electricity will decrease by 2 percent in 2024, and this would represent the beginning of a decade decline.
Global temperatures and heat waves last year disturbed this account, because the demand for cooling raised the consumption of electricity by 4 percent.
This means that fossil energy sources have also grown through 245 hours (TwH), but not as much as renewable energy sources, which have grown with a 927TWH record, depriving fossil fuels for most growth capabilities.
Ember insists that renewable energy sources and other clean energy sources will eventually increase the demand for high temperatures and other electricity demand pressure such as data centers, artificial intelligence and electric cars.
The report said: “Although the growth growth will undoubtedly be higher than it was in previous years, Ember’s analysis shows that clean growth is scheduled to exceed it, which makes long -term investments to develop fossil generation (energy) a risky bet.”
When this happens unclear.
The answer is important, because the International Energy Agency (IEA), a governmental governmental and motor body, is estimated in 2023 and to maintain an increase in the global temperature to 1.5 ° C (2.7f) by 2100, the use of fossil fuels must decrease by 25 percent by 2030 and 8050.
This, in turn, means that global investment in renewable energy sources “needs to climb to about $ 4.5 trillion annually by the early thirties of the twentieth century to be compatible with our path.” IEA said that all the new investment in extracting fossil fuels must also be canceled for the transfer of fossil fuels. None of these things happened yet.
“It is clear that there is a trend for clean energy sources to increase its share. I am not sure when or if it will replace fossil fuels, which are still part of the global energy mix,” said Costis Stambolis, executive director of the Energy Institute in Southeast Europe, which is an Athens -based research tank for Al Jaitera.
Stambolis said: “The fact that (renewable energy) increases does not necessarily mean that it will replace fossil fuels … This depends on a complex set of energy relationships,” said Stambolis.
He pointed out that the main factor in absorbing renewable energy was the investment in energy networks.
He said: “You cannot speculate the economy if renewable energy is thrown from a system that cannot absorb renewable energy.”
China opposite the United States
The EMBER report showed a clear difference between the world’s largest economists, the United States and China.
The report said: “China recorded more than half of the global increase in both solar energy and wind energy in 2024, which is the world leader in all of the manufacture and publication of clean energy,” the report said.
The United States was a Chinese mirror image in the gas. The world’s largest electricity producer was from gas last year, which represents half of all global growth in gas electricity production
In 1,865twh, US electricity of gas was greater than three times from Russia, which remained second in 538twh.
Through the European Union, gas -powered electricity generation decreased by 26 trout, as it decreased for the fifth year in a row.
Ember results are largely compatible with IEA results, which this year found that renewable energy sources are now responsible for 38 percent of all energy consumption, including electricity, transportation and heating.
In order for the world to contain global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, IEA said, the renewable renewable energy capacity must double three times by 2030, and energy efficiency must double every year, and methane emissions in the energy sector must decrease by 75 percent, and electric car sales must rise sharply.
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