{"id":39975,"date":"2023-01-09T23:00:24","date_gmt":"2023-01-10T04:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=39975"},"modified":"2023-01-09T23:00:24","modified_gmt":"2023-01-10T04:00:24","slug":"renewables-to-surpass-coal-as-global-electricity-source-in-just-2-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=39975","title":{"rendered":"Renewables to surpass coal as global electricity source in just 2 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"img-border featured-image\">\n\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/08\/Johnsonville-TN-coal-plant-demolition.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/electrek.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/08\/Johnsonville-TN-coal-plant-demolition.jpg?w=320&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/electrek.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/08\/Johnsonville-TN-coal-plant-demolition.jpg?w=640&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/electrek.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/08\/Johnsonville-TN-coal-plant-demolition.jpg?w=1024&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/electrek.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/08\/Johnsonville-TN-coal-plant-demolition.jpg?w=1500&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 1500w\" width=\"1200\" height=\"600\" alt=\"renewables coal\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><br \/>\n\t<\/figure>\n<p>Clean energy achieved momentum globally in 2022, yet it was something destructive that triggered that momentum.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-275870\"\/><ins class=\"adsbygoogle author_ad ad-container adsbygoogle author_ad hide-lg author-in-content\" data-ad-host=\"ca-host-pub-5506057612223327\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-9817249230503449\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine catapulted the world into a global energy crisis. And that in turn sparked a drive to switch from fossil fuels to renewables.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As European governments and businesses work to quickly ramp up energy alternatives to replace Russian gas, the amount of renewable power capacity added in Europe in the 2022-27 period is forecast by the International Energy Agency (IEA) to be twice as high as in the previous five-year period. That\u2019s being driven by a combination of the attempt to limit global warming to 1.5C and energy security worries.<\/p>\n<p>However, multinational banking giant ING reported in its <a href=\"https:\/\/think.ing.com\/reports\/2023-energy-outlook-from-power-to-utilities-to-renewables\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2023 Energy Outlook<\/a> that, despite uncertainties, most European utilities\u00a0\u201cfared very well [in 2022]\u00a0and will continue to do so in the next [year].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the US, the federal government\u2019s passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) in late 2022 will provide support and long-term visibility for the expansion of renewables. In 2022, private investment in renewables in the US reached $10 billion. <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.deloitte.com\/content\/dam\/Deloitte\/us\/Documents\/energy-resources\/us-eri-renewable-energy-outlook-2023.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Deloitte<\/a> forecasts high levels of private investment to continue \u201cas investors are attracted by transparent and predictable returns on mature technologies that are backed by the IRA\u2019s 10-year tax credits.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And in China, as a result of its recent 14th Five-Year Plan, the country is expected to account for almost half of new global renewable power capacity additions over the 2022-2027 period. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed alignwide is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"\/>\n<p>IEA executive director Fatih Birol <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iea.org\/news\/renewable-power-s-growth-is-being-turbocharged-as-countries-seek-to-strengthen-energy-security\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said in December<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\" readability=\"9\">\n<p>Renewables were already expanding quickly, but the global energy crisis has kicked them into an extraordinary new phase of even faster growth as countries seek to capitalize on their energy security benefits. The world is set to add as much renewable power in the next five years as it did in the previous 20 years.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>IEA expects global renewable power capacity to grow by 2,400 gigawatts over the 2022-2027 period \u2013 that\u2019s equal to the entire power capacity of China today.<\/p>\n<p>That expected increase is 30% higher than the amount of growth that was forecast just a year ago, spotlighting how quickly governments have thrown additional policy weight behind renewables. <\/p>\n<p>Renewables are set to account for over 90% of global electricity expansion over the next five years \u2013 and they\u2019ll overtake coal to become the largest source of global electricity by early 2025.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/2022\/05\/12\/renewables-will-break-another-global-record-in-2022-despite-supply-chain-problems-iea\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Renewables will break another global record in 2022 despite supply chain problems \u2013 IEA<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: PNAS<\/em><\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n<p><em>UnderstandSolar is a free service that links you to top-rated solar installers in your region for personalized solar estimates. 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And that in turn sparked a drive to switch from fossil fuels to renewables.\u00a0 As European governments and businesses work to quickly ramp up energy alternatives to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}