Category: clean power
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China added a Germany-sized grid in 2025
And it was nearly all solar and wind: click here for more. Post. Source: Our World in Data. Category: clean power, tags China, solar, wind.Click on a link to see related content. For an index of all categories and tags on this website click here. Read more
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Low-carbon electricity sources grew faster than demand in 2025
Global electricity production increased by around 850TWh in 2025, with solar and wind accounting for nearly all of this growth. The world burned more gas, but this was more than offset by a decline in coal and oil. One cheer overall I think: to reduce CO2 emissions overall fossil fuel use needs to fall not just Read more
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Clean power in India and China
In 2025 electricity generated by coal plants fell by 1.6% in China and by 3% in India; a boom in clean energy in both countries was more than enough to meet their rising demand for energy. China and India drove more than 90% of the increase in global carbon emissions between 2015 and 2024. Coal power Read more
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GB renewables 2025
Renewable sources produced a record amount of electricity in Great Britain last year, Wind was the biggest renewable source of electricity; solar rose by nearly a third on 2024 levels, helped by the UK's sunniest year on record. Of course Nature doesn't care how much renewable energy we use, it cares about how much fossil fuel we use. Electricity Read more
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Free electricity
The Australian government has announced that beginning July 2026, residents of three of the country’s six states will get three free hours of electricity every day, with the rest of the country to follow in 2027. This is because the country has put up so many solar panels that at midday, when the sun is highest, they’re producing Read more
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GB renewable energy projects 2025
A record number of renewable energy projects were given the go-ahead in GB in 2025, according Cornwall Insight. New battery, wind, and solar projects that received approval climbed to 45GW this year, 96% higher than in 2024. Applications to build new battery storage almost doubled to 28.6GW this year from 14.9GW in 2024; approvals for offshore wind Read more
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California clean power
The Trump administration has rolled back climate initiatives, but some states show what can be done. Gavin Newsom, governor of California, is quoted in the Guardian saying "we're running the fourth largest economy in the world [on] 67%, two-thirds clean energy on nine out of ten days in 2025". He says "energy" but he means Read more
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Solar backlash
Solar farms aren't always popular with the people that have to live next to them. The Guardian provided a long article about objections around my home town of Gainsborough - in some ways an ideal location for grid-scale renewables because they can connect to the grid at the site of the old Cottam power station. Read more
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Springwell solar farm
Government has approved the UK's largest power-producing solar farm after a planning inquiry. The Springwell Solar Farm, between Lincoln and Sleaford, will cover 1,280 hectares (which the BBC tells me is the area of 1,700 football pitches). Government approves UK's largest solar farm Stuart Harratt for BBC News, 8 April 2026 Originally posted by John Baxter in Read more
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Plug-in solar
May 2026: Plug-in solar panels should soon go on sale in the UK for around £500. They can produce about 10% of a typical household’s energy, depending on how they are positioned. If you are thinking of buying panels, there are practical considerations, and paperwork to be done. A lecturer in Mechanical & Energy Engineering Read more