Wind and solar reached a record 12 per cent of global electricity in 2022, up from 10 per cent in 2021, according to a report launched today by energy think tank Ember.
The report forecasts that from 2023 wind and solar will push the world into a new era of falling fossil generation, and therefore falling power sector emissions.
“In this decisive decade for the climrate, it is the beginning of the end of the fossil age,” said the lead author, Małgorzata Wiatros-Motyka, in a press statement.
“We are entering the clean power era,” Wiatros-Motyka added.
