To triple the RE capacity by 2030, we need to double the current speed, or linearly increase the deployment speed until it reach 2TW/ year by 2030.
Ambitious but totally feasible.
Chart: The world is building renewable energy faster than ever before
Submitted 10 months ago by silence7@slrpnk.net to energy@slrpnk.net
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Antitoxic9087@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
Jimmycakes@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Mostly China and India though
stabby_cicada@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
The two most populated countries in the world are investing heavily into renewables? Sounds good to me.
China and India are dedicated to improving the standard of living of their citizens. Those citizens need energy. The idea that China and India would invest heavily in non-renewable fossil fuels to meet that need - or worse, nuclear - was yet another potential climate nightmare. The fact that they’re emphasizing renewable energy sources is one small bright note in the dark clouds ahead of us.
Anamana@feddit.de 10 months ago
Germany also built a lot of solar energy infrastructure last year, as far as I know. We have a tracker on the news website zeit.de. But wind energy is still behind sadly.
Drusas@kbin.social 10 months ago
I would point out that hydropower may be renewable but isn't necessarily environmentally friendly. Especially if you live somewhere with salmon.
Iceblade02@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Hydropower is one of the most widely available and effective sources of non-fossil fuelled electricity generation. If we’re going to have a chance to stop climate change we need to use it to its fullest…
jonne@infosec.pub 10 months ago
It’s super destructive to the ecology of waterways though.
sonori@beehaw.org 10 months ago
With proper midigations it’s fast more eco friendly than the natural gas power plants were still building more of to make up for the fact that solar only ouputs in the day and we can only spin up new lithium mines and battery factories so fast.
keepthepace@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
Weird forecast… Why that sudden jump and then slow down? Looks like an exponential that they extrapolated linearly…
silence7@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
Because there are a ton of new manufacturing facilities for wind and solar under construction, so you expect to see a sudden jump. The IEA then assumes no further policy changes to cause adoption rates to increase at the same rate as that jump.
CJOtheReal@ani.social 10 months ago
I mean its about time we do…
awwwyissss@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Nobody’s gonna say it? I have to be the one, really? Fine.
HELL YEAH LETS GO!
We need some good news and to recognize and appreciate it.