Growtika4d ago

Renewables reached nearly 50% of global electricity capacity last year

https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/01/renewables_generated_nearly_half_global_power/

Renewables reached nearly 50% of global electricity capacity last year

: Cool, but fossil-fuel additions and AI-era power demand still muddy the climate math

The Register
Show threadNight_Thastus
Makes sense - solar especially. It's just more financially smart to buy something that will generate electricity for 20-30 years with little to no maintenance than a plant that requires constant fuel, and is fairly complex mechanically with fluids and heat exchangers and turbines and so on. Panel efficiency keeps going up and prices keep going down, it's a snowball at this point.
Apr 2 at 4:27pmWeb
Show threadjoe_mamba4d ago

>it's a snowball at this point.

That's why Putin attacked in 2022, and didn't wait any longer to build a stronger military. He knew he was on the clock as Europe slowly switched to renewables his fossil fuel leverage got weaker.