Climate Brink: The World Without Solar and Wind?

On his excellent Substack, The Climate Brink, climate scientist and researcher Zeke Hasufather notes how quickly renewable energy continues to expand and grow and how, despite arguments by skeptics to the contrary, renewables are displacing fossil fuels.

Twenty years ago, wind, solar and other non-hydro renewables were close to a rounding error. In 2005 they supplied a mere 2.0% of the world’s electricity generation. By 2015 that had risen to 6.8%, and by 2025 it was up to 19.8%. According to the IEA Electricity 2026 outlook, non-hydro renewables will supply around 21.8% of global electricity in 2026, edging past natural gas (21.6%) to become the second-largest source of power after coal.

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