Powering through the heat: how 2024 heatwaves reshaped electricity demand
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Powering through the heat: how 2024 heatwaves reshaped electricity demand - Lemmy.World
>Extreme heatwaves in the world’s three largest electricity markets – China, the
US and India, had a measurable impact on electricity demand, contributing to a
surge in fossil generation. > Ember has developed a methodology to estimate the
global impact of high temperature on electricity demand. The present report
zooms in on the role of air cooling in the three largest power markets – China,
the US and India – though the implications are worldwide.
A Race to the Top China 2023: China's quest for energy security drives wind and solar development - Global Energy Monitor
https://lemmy.world/post/951533
A Race to the Top China 2023: China's quest for energy security drives wind and solar development - Global Energy Monitor - Lemmy.world
From the report: >China is on track to double its utility-scale solar and wind
power capacity and shatter the central government’s ambitious 2030 target of
1,200 gigawatts (GW) five years ahead of schedule, if all prospective projects
are successfully built and commissioned. >With 757 GW of already operating wind
and solar, and an additional 750 GW of prospective wind and solar, the majority
of which expected to come online by 2025, the central government’s 2030 target
is expected to be met 5 years ahead of schedule. >Nearly all of this prospective
capacity is part of the government’s 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-2025) and enough
to increase the global wind fleet by nearly half and large utility-scale solar
installations by over 85%.
Energy-Charts: Deutschland hat im Juni weniger Strom mit fossilen Brenstoffen erzeugt als je in einem Juni zuvor
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Energy-Charts: Deutschland hat im Juni weniger Strom mit fossilen Brenstoffen erzeugt als je in einem Juni zuvor - Lemmy.world
Konventionelle Energieträger produzierten im Juni 2023 nach den Daten auf
energy-charts.info [http://energy-charts.info] mit 14,259 TWh weniger Strom als
im letzten Rekordtief für einen Juni, das in 2020 by 16,696 TWh lag. Zugleich
erzeugten die Erneuerbaren Energien im Juni mit 21 TWh mehr Strom als jemals
zuvor in einem Juni (voriger Rekord in 2022 lag bei 19,386 TWh).
The EU reached a new record low in electricity from fossil fuels in the first half of 2023. (energy-charts.info)
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The EU reached a new record low in electricity from fossil fuels in the first half of 2023. (energy-charts.info) - Lemmy.world
According to the data gathered on energy-charts.info
[http://energy-charts.info], the first half of 2023 saw the lowest production of
electricity by fossil fuels since 2015. With 387 TWh (31.7% of load) from
conventional sources it surpassed the previous low for a first half year of
400.9 TWh (32.1%) in 2020 by nearly 14 TWh or 3.5%. At the same time renewables
provided for more power than ever with 519.3 TWh providing 42.6% of the load.
Other records for a first half year in 2023 (see the bottom of the energy-charts
page): * lowest nuclear power production * lowest fossil peat production *
lowest load * highest pumped hydro usage (consumption+production) * highest
offshore wind production (23.922 TWh) * highest onshore wind production (195.399
TWh) * highest solar power production (98.698 TWh) This marks a notable shift
towards green energy compared to the first half of 2022: renewables increased
from 488.8 TWh in the first half of 2022 to 519.3 TWh in the first half this
year, while fossil fuels decreased from 475.3 TWh to 387 TWh.
