A technician inspects the appearance of wind power blades at a wind power blade production company in Jinan New District of Handan city, North China's Hebei Province, July 15, 2022. Photo Credit: CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images

Environment United Kingdom25. July 2022

Numbers Don’t Lie: The World Is Shifting to Renewables

Within the span of just one lifetime, there has been a big green shift in global energy, and one of England’s oil and gas supermajors shares this year’s encouraging renewable energy statistics – in production, consumption, and power generation.

In this year’s Statistical Review of World Energy, BP PLC shares data regarding the rise of renewables, the passing of wind and solar over nuclear, and China becoming the biggest importer of liquified natural gas (LNG) – considered the least harmful fossil fuel since it has the lowest CO2 emission per unit of energy.

Renewable power – including wind, solar, geothermal, biomass, and small hydropower – now accounts for 13% of the global power generation. It reached the 10% mark in 2019 thanks to an addition of 0.8% every year since 2010. In 2021, wind and solar energy surpassed 10% of global generation, while also surpassing the yearly nuclear energy production. Not only has China become the world’s largest importer of LNG with 109.5 billion cubic meters imported last year, but it also surpassed Europe in renewable electricity production. Back in 2016, it generated 60% of Europe’s total renewable generation. And by 2021, the Asian country had overtaken Europe by adding some 290 terawatt-hours of total renewable electricity generation, in a single year!

Source:
Bloomberg

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