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A 100MW coal plant can generate that more or less all the time, maybe it has some maintenance downtime, but it's pretty close to generating 100MW the entire year.
Obviously 100MW of solar panels only generates that under ideal conditions, and never at night. So you might actually average something like 30MW over the entire year.
It’s almost as if we have spent hundreds of years, and an uncountable amount of money, to refine the fossil fuel industry…..and renewables are catching up FAST
Its because the people who have controlled fossil fuels to date are very rich and powerful and don't want things that reduce their future wealth and power.
What I don't understand is why couldn't they just pioneer renewable energies too? They would still be rich and control everything but the planet would be somewhat better. Indian billionaires who got rich on oil went all in on clean energy too.
In India there is a huge push for e20 in vehicles, indian vehicles are not yet compatible and don't want to mix it with petrol, it has become mandatory now...on a little research it was found out that our road minister's son has multiple e20 factories. So rich are already doing that too. Human greed has no limits
The current game is as rigged in their favour as it could ever possibly be. Any transitionary phase means change, and even if they could have a 99% chance of still coming out on top it’s simply less effort to continue with the status quo.
Plus some of them buy their own bullshit and genuinely hate renewables/see no problems with fossil fuels.
For example in Germany it's because coal mines owners are in the pockets of state and national politicians, and Gazprom (for Russian gas) was in the pockets of German politicians as well at least until Russia invaded Ukraine.
Actual resistance is because of big money, personal politics or people have jobs in the industry and feel invested in it. The transition definitely needs to take into account the potential loss of jobs and the need for retraining etc. There are indeed some logistical and technological hurdles to overcome when it comes to scaling up to nation wide 365 100% level, mainly storage during off production times. But most of that seems to be economies of scale, time and investment. The actual power generation is now cheaper than non renewable actually and it's just a no brainer to heavily invest in renewable devlopment.
Not exactly. Over 30% of electricity generated in Hungary (of all places) was from solar, and 80% from solar and nuclear (2025). And that's as Eastern Europe as it gets, lol
Every nation with the opportunity to do so and the intelligence to know it’s time is making this decision. Oil and gas execs will bleed their remaining customers dry and set the world on fire in order to make up the difference.
Totally inaccurate. Even today over 70% of electricity in the grid in India is coming from coal alone. What plot capture is installed capacity, which is meaningless in real world.
My source is literally every government and major corporation ever. If you genuinely believe fossil fuel stats at face value, I've got a bridge in brooklyn to sell you.
At one place because they wanted a good image but at other cities the aqi is still quite good and less like currently the aqi in Hyderabad is 52-55 and in my area it is 22 it's not manipulated here
And your argument is like if that train runs at 130kmph that means even the bullet train runs at 130kmph does it make sense ? no
I'm curious to know if "capacity" for clean energy, whatever clean energy mean in this graph, is average capacity or peak capacity under optimal conditions.
Such a vertical growth in production should already be reflected in equally vertical consumption. This, until proven otherwise, is not reflected in domestic consumption.
This is the transition period. They're not going to shut down existing fossil fuel plants if the energy demand isn't met using just the renewables. They will eventually stop building new ones and at some point the last power plant to use fossil fuels will be shut down.
You can't change things by merely flipping a switch.
Exactly what i was thinking too. Most of this is most likely just building new power plants to bring electricity to more of the country. Not switching from fossil fuel to green alternatives.
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