Clean energy supplies 40% of global electricity

Clean energy sources – including nuclear – contributed over 40% of global electricity generation for the first time since the 1940s, with solar power driving the revolution

GLOBAL ELECTRICITY GENERATION

Renewable energy
Solar 
Wind
Bioenergy 
Other
Hydro

Terrawatt hours (TWh)


2010
Total: 21,265 TWh
Clean energy: 6,920 TWh 
Under 24%

Nuclear
Fossil fuels 
Gas
Coal 
Other

2024
Clean energy 41%
2,132
2,494
4,419
2,768
6,787
10,599 
865

711
89


                                       
SOLAR POWER GENERATING CAPACITY

TWh 
1500 
1000
500
2010 2015 2020 2024

 Rest of world 403

 OECD 894

China 834 TWh Almost 40% of solar generation is now in China


DEMAND GROWTH
40% met by solar power alone
474
182
182
20 
69
Fossil fuels 244   
   
Sources: Ember, BBC
Picture: Getty Images
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