Renewable energy passes 30% of world’s electricity supply
By Paul Homewood
h/t Patsy Lacey
I see Silly Jilly is still shilling for renewables!
Renewable energy accounted for more than 30% of the world’s electricity for the first time last year following a rapid rise in wind and solar power, according to new figures.
A report on the global power system has found that the world may be on the brink of driving down fossil fuel generation, even as overall demand for electricity continues to rise.
Clean electricity has already helped to slow the growth in fossil fuels by almost two-thirds in the past 10 years, according to the report by climate thinktank Ember. It found that renewables have grown from 19% of electricity in 2000 to more than 30% of global electricity last year.
“The renewables future has arrived,” said Dave Jones, Ember’s director of global insights. “Solar, in particular, is accelerating faster than anyone thought possible.”
So wind and solar power are soon going to drive out fossil fuels then?
Well maybe not!
The share of renewables in the electricity mix did rise slightly last year, from 29.4% to 30.2%. Hardly Earth shattering!
https://ourworldindata.org/electricity-mix
And what Silly Jilly conveniently forgot to tell you was that hydro power makes up nearly half of the renewable generation. There is of course little room for any further significant increase in hydro capacity.
Biomass also contributed 8% of renewable output.
As for solar and wind power, they only accounted for 13.3% of the world’s electricity, up from 11.9% in 2022.
Fossil fuel generation also increased in absolute terms in 2023, by 1%, and still supplies 61% of the world’s electricity.
The chances of that coming down anytime soon is for the birds.
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
B4 I get triggered for the day: Is this another of those “only supplying the electrical needs of households for 5 minutes” reports? ie those households also consume other fuels for rest of the day to do other things besides Light and online gowdering reading ?
30% still leaves 70%. If I saved 30% of the amount needed for a deposit on a property and I claimed I was on the brink of getting the rest, would the banks be receptive?
electricity is only some 20% of our total energy consumption. Basically some 55℅ of electric comes from biomass and hydro. Up to another 11% comes from interconnecters much of which is not from ren ewables. Electric demand will double in next ten years with ev ‘s and heat pumps.
so this is all much less impressive than it reads and doesn’t resolve the question as to what happens when the weather gods stop smiling
So wind and solar make up 45% of 30% of 20% of total energy supply. This comes to less than 3% of total energy supply. I think that this counts as a failure for wind and solar power.
But biomass doesn’t count. It’s still burning stuff of which a major product of combustion is carbon dioxide, never mind the carbon dioxide resulting from harvesting, processing and transportation.
Give us more CO2 and get away from the hoax that CO2 is a pollutant.
It looks like a good year for hydro. Dams risks overtopping in Spain, so prices are now often zero or negative as the peak solar season kicks in. Finally Hidroituango is making progress in Colombia
https://cu.epm.com.co/investors/news/epm-makes-good-on-its-promise-to-the-country-hidroituango-power-generation-units-3-and-4-are-ready
Norway does seem to be a bit low though: we’re at the annual low point of around 25TWh behind the dams. The snowmelt season is about to begin and snow cover seems to have been light this year.
https://driftsdata.statnett.no/Web/Reservoir/?area=no&language=en
Collectivist speak. There is no ‘global power system.’
And yet this ‘massive’ rise in unreliable generation doesn’t seem to have helped global warming as the EU climate propaganda department have claimed we have just had the hottest April evah……well, since 1940. Do they do this bullshit with a straight face? At least the Mail gave some perspective with its headline ‘Hottest April on record….but you wouldn’t know it living in the UK’.
This story was on Sky how 30% of energy was renewable energy. I guess that is a average with it varying from 70% to 3% or something like that with the 3% in winter when you need it. Sky were also telling me that April was the hottest on record. I must be living in a different dimension. It’s May and yesterday was a bit hot so I changed my big jumper for my lighter jumper but today I am regretting that decision. I guess reality is what ever they say it is .
CNN had some kids explaining climate change and extreme weather. Then I was watching a Noam Chomsky interview and he was saying a lot of sensible things then he started talking about how the biggest threat was climate change. So from kids to intellectuals there all brain washed.
guardian news current lead article for today is
World’s top climate scientists expect global heating to blast past 1.5C target | Climate crisis | The Guardian
Guardian asked IPCC “scientist” if the earth was going to singe, burn, conflagrate etc and 380 apparently all answered that temperatures would go up, some saying by 5C!.. A loaded question asked to a biased and loaded cohort to get a biased answer.
also Guardian … Belgium students occupy uni to protest about climate change and Palestine.
Ghent students occupy university building in climate and Gaza protest | Belgium | The Guardian
No BLM protest then? Funny how all the woke protesters come together to protest against all “the current things”
Cop29 summit to call for peace between warring states, says host Azerbaijan | Cop29 | The Guardian
So not just meddling with Climate, COP project creep to include peacemaker role. This has come from host Azerbaijan who have only just made peace with neighbours Armenia, this war including elements of ethnic cleansing by Azebaijan (which of course is a totalitarian family run dictatorship).
final Guardian comment
Venezuela loses its last glacier as it shrinks down to an ice field | Glaciers | The Guardian
this is a football field size glacier 5000 metres up a mountain close to the equator. The piece points to catastrophic global warming of course ,but this quote from the article makes nonsense of this
“Other countries lost their glaciers several decades ago after the end of the little ice age but Venezuela is arguably the first one to lose them in modern times,” said Maximiliano Herrera, a climatologist and weather historian who maintains a chronicle of extreme temperature records online.
According to Herrera, Indonesia, Mexico and Slovenia are next in line to become glacier-free, with Indonesia’s Papua island and Mexico having experienced record-high warmth in recent months, which is expected to accelerate the glaciers’ retreat.“
So they admit that the reason for these mountain top glaciers disappearing is that we are still coming our of the little ice age.
What does ‘supply’ mean?
What does ‘accounted for’ mean?
What does ‘rapid rise’ mean?
‘Silly Jilly’ is right!
I read the headline as:
UK well on its way to energy poverty
But only for a few minutes! The UK has been windless for 3 days now – all those subsidies for 1.4GW from a total installed of 30GW
it’s gonna be v low Europewide til Saturday . Look at the Met Office isobars.
But, but, they said all that money was well spent on free wind power
what a freaking horror. We have an alternative to fossil fuels that increases our energy resiliency in the world of 8 billion people. I am mortified. I think I am going to go to bed now to curl into a fetal position, sucking on my thumb.
Our Green unelected legislators are perfectly aware of electricity’s small share of the energy mix whenever anyone advocates nuclear power.
At 19-35 today, 24th May, Gridwatch show Wind supplying a whopping 1% of demand. What do you naysayers have to say about that then? The Plan is therefore on-track and with evidence of this magnitude, perhaps you will refrain from denigrating the massive achievements made to make the World’s environment significantly cleaner and healthier.
Do you have a crystal ball?
Sure do. I look forward to riding Unicorns, especially after the progressives who have to spend their time dismantling things like the Magna Carta cabinets etc, they won’t need to do that anymore and they to will be happy just to have afternoon tea with their grandchildren. It will be wonderful. Everyone will be happy.