Milestone for renewable energy

 

While I continue to be an advocate for nuclear energy (because the more clean energy that's available, the more that can be done to address other pressing problems, like water supply), renewable energy sources are currently cheaper and easier to deploy.  So this milestone was not unexpected, but is still an achievement of note.

Renewable energy passes 30% of world’s electricity supply

Report says humans may be on brink of cutting fossil fuel generation, even as demand for electricity rises

"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.”

Solar was the main supplier of electricity growth, according to Ember, adding more than twice as much new electricity generation as coal in 2023."

And don't forget, the best place to put new solar energy installations in the U.S. is parking lots.