{"id":41471,"date":"2025-04-09T08:19:02","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T08:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.premium-partners.net\/?p=41471"},"modified":"2025-04-09T12:42:53","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T12:42:53","slug":"renewables-provided-record-32-of-global-electricity-in-2024-ember-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.premium-partners.net\/fr\/builder\/renewables-provided-record-32-of-global-electricity-in-2024-ember-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Renewables provided record 32% of global electricity in 2024, Ember says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <a target='_blank' rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/business-report\/energy\/renewables-provided-record-32-of-global-electricity-in-2024-ember-says-d1bb58e5-780e-4be4-9690-ad336bc6be52\">post<\/a> was originally published on <a target='_blank' rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/\">this site<\/a><\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/image-prod.iol.co.za\/16x9\/800?source=https:\/\/iol-prod.appspot.com\/image\/30b0fb9f9abbe9c50aad42ff395a0ad4a3254561\/944&amp;operation=CROP&amp;offset=0x26&amp;resize=944x531\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Renewable power generation provided a record 32% of global electricity last year, a report by energy think tank Ember said on Tuesday, as overall electricity demand grew 4% driven by heatwaves and data centres.<\/p>\n<p>Energy security fears, exacerbated by a trade war prompted by US President Donald Trump&#8217;s<span>&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/tariffs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sweeping tariffs<\/a>, could further boost demand for renewable power this year, said Ember electricity and data analyst Euan Graham.<\/p>\n<p>The<span>&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reutersconnect.com\/all?search=all%3AL2N3QL03H&amp;linkedFromStory=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tariffs<\/a><span>&nbsp;<\/span>have sent markets from energy and equities plummeting and stoked concerns about a global recession.<\/p>\n<p>Graham said though it was too early to tell whether the tariff fallout would impact electricity demand this year, renewable power could benefit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Countries are thinking about their security and energy security more than ever before and I think that means homegrown renewable power like wind and<span>&nbsp;solar&nbsp;<\/span>becomes more and more attractive,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The growth of renewable power generation &#8211; including wind, hydro and<span>&nbsp;solar&nbsp;<\/span>&#8211; in the global electricity mix in 2024 beat the previous year&#8217;s 30% record, Ember\u2019s Global Electricity Review showed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Despite geopolitical and economic headwinds, the renewables industry delivered an additional 858 TWh of generation to the system last year &#8211; more than the combined annual electricity consumption of the UK and France,&#8221; Bruce Douglas, the CEO of the Global Renewables Alliance, said in a statement accompanying the report.<\/p>\n<p>The rise in electricity consumption for artificial intelligence, data centres, electric vehicles and heat pumps contributed 0.7% of the global demand growth last year, the report showed.<\/p>\n<p>Heatwaves in 2024 increased electricity demand for cooling, which added a further 0.7% or 208 terrawatt hours (TWh) to the global total, it said.<\/p>\n<p>Gas power plants contributed 22% of global electricity production, little changed from 2023. Coal remained the largest source of generation, providing 34% of the global share, down from 36%.<\/p>\n<p>Nuclear power contributed 9%, down slightly from 9.1% in 2023.<\/p>\n<p><strong>REUTERS<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Renewable power generation provided a record 32% of global electricity last year, a report by energy think tank Ember said on Tuesday, as overall electricity demand grew 4% driven by heatwaves and data centres.Energy security fears, exacerbated by a trade war prompted by US President Donald Trump&#8217;s\u00a0sweeping tariffs, could further boost demand for renewable power this year, said Ember electricity and data analyst Euan Graham.The\u00a0tariffs\u00a0have sent markets from energy and equities plummeting and stoked concerns about a global recession.Graham said though it was too early to tell whether the tariff fallout would impact electricity demand this year, renewable power could benefit.&#8221;Countries are thinking about their security and energy security more than ever before and I think that means homegrown renewable power like wind and\u00a0solar\u00a0becomes more and more attractive,&#8221; he said.The growth of renewable power generation &#8211; including wind, hydro and\u00a0solar\u00a0&#8211; in the global electricity mix in 2024 beat the previous year&#8217;s 30% record, Ember\u2019s Global Electricity Review showed.&#8221;Despite geopolitical and economic headwinds, the renewables industry delivered an additional 858 TWh of generation to the system last year &#8211; more than the combined annual electricity consumption of the UK and France,&#8221; Bruce Douglas, the CEO of the Global Renewables Alliance, said in a statement accompanying the report.The rise in electricity consumption for artificial intelligence, data centres, electric vehicles and heat pumps contributed 0.7% of the global demand growth last year, the report showed.Heatwaves in 2024 increased electricity demand for cooling, which added a further 0.7% or 208 terrawatt hours (TWh) to the global total, it said.Gas power plants contributed 22% of global electricity production, little changed from 2023. Coal remained the largest source of generation, providing 34% of the global share, down from 36%.Nuclear power contributed 9%, down slightly from 9.1% in 2023.REUTERS<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-builder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.premium-partners.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.premium-partners.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.premium-partners.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.premium-partners.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.premium-partners.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.premium-partners.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41472,"href":"https:\/\/www.premium-partners.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41471\/revisions\/41472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.premium-partners.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.premium-partners.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.premium-partners.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.premium-partners.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}