Renewable energy met all new demand for electricity in 2025, according to a new review of global power generation, halting the growth of fossil fuel-powered generation and highlighting the promise of clean sources like wind and solar.

The authoritative Global Electricity Review released annually by Ember, an international energy research organization, says clean sources — especially solar — are growing fast enough and are cheap enough that they are stopping new fossil fuel-powered electricity generation. Electricity from solar and wind increased while there was no change to the amount of electricity produced from burning fossil fuels.

“We’re really talking about a large-scale change in how the energy system works. And solar is among the most scalable technologies that can deliver fast change,” said Nicolas Fulghum, senior data analyst at Ember.

    • Living_Dead@lemmy.ca
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      4 days ago

      Silfab and Heliene also have manufacturing in canada. All 3 of these companies are only completing the cells in canada, not full manufacturing, or atleast a few companies have told me that.

      There are really cheap and good panels from Vietnam and Taiwan that beet/meet the same price point as topcon and some of the other Chinese panels.

      The hard one is getting a canadian made inverter. Canadian solar rebrands the Chinese solis and deye inverters and calls them theirs.