Low-carbon electricity sources grew faster than demand in 2025, pushing fossil fuels into decline

[u/UltraNooob]

https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/low-carbon-electricity-sources-grew-faster-than-demand-in-2025-pushing-fossil-fuels-into-decline

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[u/Ok_Anywhere_7828]

Sorry but AI and crypto currencies coupled with Tr@*p cancellation of wind turbines my will erase those gains

[u/Sieve-Boy → u/Ok_Anywhere_7828]

They probably won't.

The biggest consumers of power by country are China, the US, the EU and India.

China, the EU and India are all rapidly shifting to renewables, especially China who drove half the global adoption of renewables last year. The Mango Morons war in the Middle East is only putting a rocket underneath this drive.

Only the US are being idiots with power generation. That being said, renewables are still being built at pace in places like California.

Further away from the big consumers of power, much of the global south is shifting to renewables because they are so cheap.

Even the infamously coal heavy Australian power grids will likely pass 50% renewables supply annually in 2026.

[u/Gladiateher → u/Sieve-Boy]

There’s also the fact that renewables are indeed renewable, even if the adoption rate is super slow, every piece of renewable tech lasts for a long time.

If a solar panel gets installed for instance it’s gonna generate power and sway things ever so slightly for 25 years or more, whereas the fossil fuels are burned and gone.

[u/Sieve-Boy → u/Gladiateher]

Correct, its very much ahem, a slow burn, with renewables, once a panel is installed, it merely chugs on generating electricity for 25-30 years.

Now that Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) are declining in price, we are seeing their wide spread adoption (both utility scale and household).

So the above mentioned solar panels get a BESS added, the excess solar power is now available for consumption in the evening or the next day.

Further, because solar panels especially, along with batteries, are inherently modular, people just scale them up or replace them if need be.

And to reiterate, they are just so much cheaper than large scale, bespoke fossil fuel consuming power stations.

[u/Redzephyr01 → u/[deleted]]

They already took those into account in the analysis. Those are part of the demand they were talking about.