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Title: Solar and Wind are Covering ALl New Power Demand in 2025

Link: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/11/15/...

An anonymous reader shared this report from Electrek: Solar and wind are
growing fast enough to meet all new electricity demand worldwide for the
first three quarters of 2025, according to new data from energy think tank
Ember. The group now expects fossil power to stay flat for the full year,
marking the first time since the pandemic that fossil generation won't
increase. Solar and wind aren't just expanding; they're outpacing global
electricity demand itself. Solar generation jumped 498 TWh (+31%) compared to
the same period last year, already topping all the solar power produced in
2024. Wind added another 137 TWh (+7.6%). Together, they supplied 635 TWh of
new clean electricity, beating out the 603 TWh rise in global demand (+2.7%).
That lifted solar and wind to 17.6% of global electricity in the first three
quarters of the year, up from 15.2% year-over-year. That brought the total
share of renewables in global electricity -solar, wind, hydro, bioenergy, and
geothermal - to 43%. Fossil fuels slid to 57.1%, down from 58.7%. For the
first time in 2025, renewables collectively generated more electricity than
coal. And fossil generation as a whole has stalled. Fossil output slipped
slightly by 0.1% (-17 TWh) through the end of Q3. Ember expects no fossil-
fuel growth for the full year, driven by clean power growth outpacing demand.

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