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Renewables Overtake Coal As World's Biggest Source of Electricity
Wednesday October 8, 2025. 03:00 PM , from Slashdot
![]() Developing countries, especially China, led the clean energy charge but richer nations including the US and EU relied more than before on planet-warming fossil fuels for electricity generation. This divide is likely to get more pronounced, according to a separate report from the International Energy Agency (IEA). It predicts renewables will grow much less strongly than forecast in the US as a result of the policies of President Donald Trump's administration. Coal, a major contributor to global warming, was still the world's largest individual source of energy generation in 2024, a position it has held for more than 50 years, according to the IEA. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/10/08/0339254/renewables-overtake-coal-as-worlds-biggest-sour...
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