92.5% of New Power Capacity Added Worldwide in 2024 Was from Renewables - CleanTechnica

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• relianceschool@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  According to the IEA, in 2024 renewables accounted for 38% of new energy generation, and 80% of new electricity generation. I’m not sure where the discrepancy comes from between that number and the 92.5% number here in this paper. Either way, it’s great news.

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  • MrMakabar@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    The 32% is the share of all not just new renewable electricity generation. The growt of clean electricity generation was 80% with most of that being wind and solar.

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    • relianceschool@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      The IEA states that:

      In 2024, 80% of the growth in global electricity generation was provided by renewable sources and nuclear power. Together, they contributed 40% of total generation for the first time, with renewables alone supplying 32%.

      So 32% of new electricity generation in 2024 was provided by renewables. In 2023 renewables accounted for about 23% of electricity generation, and 13% of total energy consumption.

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  • JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    If those both are true, that’d mean the green energy has a really abysmal utilization factor (power generated to installed capacity ratio). I think it’d imply a utilization factor of 0.038. I thought it was closer to 0.37 for wind and 0.25 for solar. Maybe there’s a difference in what each is counting as renewable? Or how they’re continuing non renewable production capacity?

    92.5x/7.5=32/67, x=0.038

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• SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Line go up 💪

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