Solar is winning the energy race and China is leading
The world’s cheapest power source is scaling at warp speed, pushing coal, gas and nuclear aside.
- 228 gigawatts in 2015, providing 1% of the world's electricity
- 759 GW in 2020, or roughly 3% of global energy demand
- 2,919 GW in 2025, according to estimates — solar now supplies about 10% of the world's energy, more than nuclear at 9%
