2024 was an astonishingly good year for clean energy
4 March 2025
by David Fickling
The world installed 599 GW of solar panels last year, up by about a third from 2023. Generating power only 15% of the time, those panels should produce about 787 TWh of electricity — equivalent to the output of a third of the world’s nuclear reactors. Add that to the roughly 344 TWh of wind that was connected last year, and the incremental amount of wind and solar added in 2024 alone was equivalent to about 6.2% of all the fossil-fired electricity on the planet. Repeat that trick for 16 years running and hold demand steady, and net zero could, in theory, be solved
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[Source: Fix the News]