Emmanuel Addeh in Abuja
In a historic development, the world’s wind and solar farms have generated more electricity than coal plants, marking a turning point for the global power system, a report by Climate Thinktank, Ember has found.
The report showed that in the first six months of 2025, renewable energy outpaced the world’s growing appetite for electricity, leading to a decline in coal and gas use, with the world generating almost a third more solar power in the first half of the year compared with the same period in 2024.
This meant that it met 83 per cent of the global increase in electricity demand as wind power grew by over 7 per cent, allowing renewables to displace fossil fuels for the first time.
China and India were largely responsible for the surge in renewables, according to the Ember report, in contrast with the US and Europe, which relied more heavily on fossil fuels.