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92.5% of new power capacity added worldwide in 2024 was from renewables
(cleantechnica.com)
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It'd also be interesting to know how many GW worth of non-renewable energy generation is decommissioned every year.
Little to none so far. This might change in the future, but not that quickly.
The additional renewable capacity added year on year is not enough to cover the additional electrical load, which originates mainly from 2 things: transport/infrastructure (including EVs, data centres, AI) & environmental loads (more heatwaves in populated cities, where people then need to cool).
As far as I understood, 2024 was a substantial year for the environmental side of the equation, otherwise additional renewables installations would have been able to cover just about all the additional power load.
Source: https://www.energyinst.org/statistical-review
Don't forget ~~data centers~~ spy warehouses.
So if we'd have started building renewables a couple years sooner, we'd already be fixing the problem and it would be cheaper, but because we waited, we have to pay more?