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Charting solar power's explosive global growth!

From 2019 to 2024, countries have moved right (higher share, %) and up (more solar power, TWh), with the boom spanning small to large power markets.

@ember-energy.org's Global Electricity Review is out today!
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A series of six scatter plots showing global solar power growth from 2019 to 2024. The plots compare electricity generation from solar (in terawatt-hours, TWh) and its share of total electricity generation (percentage) across different countries. Countries are grouped based on their total solar electricity generation in 2024. >100 TWh: China, the United States, and India have seen significant solar growth. 50-100 TWh: Brazil, Germany, and Spain have increased solar generation. 20-50 TWh: Australia, Italy, South Korea, and the Netherlands show strong growth, with solar making up a larger share of their electricity mix. 5-20 TWh: Countries like South Africa, Poland, Chile, Greece, and Hungary have increased solar power generation but remain in the mid-range. 1-5 TWh: Denmark, Jordan, and Cyprus have expanded solar power, with higher shares of solar in their electricity mix. <1 TWh: Smaller markets like Armenia, Estonia, and Malta have also increased solar generation but at lower absolute levels. The chart highlights widespread solar power growth across all regions, with significant increases in both total generation and solar's share of electricity generation between 2019 and 2024.
April 8, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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nicolasfulghum.bsky.social
The rapid growth means solar continued to be by far the fastest growing source of electricity of all time.

It took just 8 years to go from 100 TWh to 1000 TWh and then just 3 years to surpass 2000 TWh 🏆
April 8, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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NEW | Clean electricity surpasses 40% of global electricity generation

Our latest @ember-energy.org Global Electricity Review is out today! ⚡

Solar power is rising rapidly and doubled in the last three years ☀️

A (long) thread on the key trends in 2024... 🧵
April 8, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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nicolasfulghum.bsky.social
NEW | Fossil fuels fall below 50% of US electricity for the first month on record 🇺🇸

Among all the turmoil, some positive news from the latest @ember-energy.org data for March 2025:

🏆↘️ The share of fossil fuels fell to a record low of 49.2%

🏆↗️ Wind and solar power hit a new record high of 24.4%
April 4, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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NEW | UK solar generation smashes previous March record amid historically sunny weather ☀️🇬🇧

The latest @ember-energy.org data shows that solar generation in 2025 was 59% higher than in March 2024.

Acc. to the met office, March 2025 had the third-highest sunshine hours since records began in 1910
April 2, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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nicolasfulghum.bsky.social
Read the full guest post on CarbonBrief by my colleagues @libbycopsey.bsky.social and @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social

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Guest post: Saudi Arabia's surprisingly large imports of solar panels from China - Carbon Brief
China’s solar panel exports rose by 10% in 2024, with imports by global-south countries rising by 32% and those to the global north falling by 6%
www.carbonbrief.org
March 31, 2025 at 12:59 PM