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About 40% of the world's power generation is now renewable - Lemmy.World (lemmy.world)

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[-] NESSI3@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

[-] knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 year ago

They're measuring installed capacity, not actually generated power. Given the very low output vs theoretical maximum capacity of renewables this translates to something closer to 15% generated power, including hydroelectric.

[-] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

Seems high to me too, and the lack of peer review doesn't help

[-] ArcaneGadget@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

FFS... They could at least fucking skim the report they are writing about. It's not 40%, it's 28%...

The total global electricity consumption, from all sources, including renewables, was 28 500 TWh in 2022, a 2.5% increase compared with 2021 (and a 25% increase compared with ten years earlier, 2013) (EMBER, 2023). According to IRENA (2023b) the percentage of electricity consumption met by RE was 27.8% in 2022, up from 27.6% in 2021. According to the International Energy Agency (IEA) (2023), demand is expected to grow by slightly less than 2% in 2023.

[-] benjhm@sopuli.xyz 1 points 11 months ago

I couldn't find any related 40% in the report pdf. However there is a difference between fraction of capacity, and fraction of consumption - not all capacity is used, maybe that explains some of the gap?