Local wind and solar use—through electrification, storage, and green hydrogen production—could bypass transmission constraints and help decarbonize industry. But China’s growing coal-based fuels + chemicals sector risks absorbing green hydrogen as a marginal feedstock with little emissions benefit.

Over half of the development pipeline is concentrated in six northwestern and northern regions, home to China’s wind and solar megabases, the largest renewable-energy deployment project in the world.

NEW: China is building more wind and utility-scale solar than the rest of the world combined. More than 500 GW of its 1,360 GW capacity in development is already under construction. globalenergymonitor.org/research/chi...

It's y-axis upgrade time again ;)

Always an interesting compilation. The battery storage headlines particularly eye catching!

from giga to terawatts on the y-axis in this latest forecast, a sure sign of progress! about.bnef.com/insights/cle...

India’s total electricity generation up just ~1% in 2025 and record solar+wind deployment (+35GW/6GW as of November). Extra solar+wind, plus strong monsoon hydro, more than covered the total generation increase, and pushed coal generation down 3%. Hasn't fallen like that before (outside Covid era)

Meanwhile solar+wind become the majority source of the state's power in 2025 y-t-d, while solar curtailment runs at record levels, "up to 48% at peak hours" www.mercomindia.com/rajasthan-cu...

Interesting! Solar+wind become the majority source of power in the state in 2025 y-t-d

liked this figure: 23 nuclear power plants under construction abroad, 20 by Russia’s Rosatom, 2 by France’s EDF, and 1 by and China’s CNNC

Increasingly, during the tail end of summer, electricity on India’s power grid is getting sourced mainly by solar, wind, and hydro for an hour or two around midday. I don’t think that’s happened before in India

Looking at the energy sector section, energy system emissions increase 35-54% under the two scenarios considered, by 2035, with up to 20% of energy system emissions being mopped up by BECCS/CCS… COP President climate leadership…?

Brazil’s NDC targets 59-67% reduction on 2005 emissions, by 2035 (850-1,050 MtCO₂e). The Ministry of the Environment is wrapping up consultation on the National Mitigation Strategy, which includes a Sectoral Plan consistent with this NDC target brasilparticipativo.presidencia.gov.br/processes/pl...

Great insights from the latest edition of the Global Coal Plant Tracker from @globalenergymon.bsky.social mailchi.mp/globalenergy...

wettest May in 124 years indianexpress.com/article/citi... but now it's back to heatwave conditions. India records highest ever daily power generation June 10th, with coal within 1% of peak daily value

Getting close!

Solar, wind, and hydro regularly covering more than a third of India’s power generation over lunchtime in recent weeks

My new paper in Environmental Research Letters With co-author Amanda Maycock, we show how a weather forecasting system making predictions 1-4 months ahead can produce skilful estimates of wind generation in India during the summer monsoon season. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Total electricity generation in India rallies in Feb 2025, growing ~6.7% year-on-year for the month (discounting the leap year). Coal gen is tracking close to record levels and covers most of the Feb increase. Gen from pricey gas tracking below previous years and solar up ~30% in Feb over last year

Solar surge hugely impressive! But y-o-y growth in gen still mostly met by coal... Daily coal gen within a few % of highest ever value this month. More for RE needed! bsky.app/profile/jame...

Replicating 2024’s record wind and solar additions would get India 80% of the way to its 2030 target of 500GW non-fossil capacity. But meeting the target would require additions to keep growing at around 15% year on year, with annual deployment in 2030 reaching double the record 2024 amount

However, the accelerating deployment of wind and solar in not widespread across India, with just six states accounted for 89% of wind and solar additions in 2024. These six now account for two-thirds of all renewable energy capacity nationwide.

We used Global Integrated Power Tracker data from @globalenergymon.bsky.social finding a robust renewables pipeline, w/ the capacity of wind, utility-scale solar + hydro in development on track to overtake operating coal capacity within 2 years + more utility-scale solar in construction than coal

⚡2024 saw a record 35GW added to India’s power sector, comprising mostly solar PV (24.5GW) and wind (3.4GW). Great progress, but these additions must grow ~15% per year to meet the 2030 target of 500GW non-fossil capacity 🎯 Read more in our latest briefing globalenergymonitor.org/report/despi...

India’s electricity generation for January 2025 up 2% y-o-y. But coal, lignite and gas gen down for the month…. while solar registers the largest increase of any power source, and nearly covers all the thermal reduction for the month

... and the geography of the power sector across the region

Check out the report for backstory on the legacy fossil-fueled power sector in Caucasus+Central Asia, where wind and solar potential is yet underutilized. We drew upon facility-level data, which enabled us to analyze the power sector age profile ⬇️...

As fresh NDCs are in prep, it's worth recalling that fossil fuels endure in many climate plans Our deep dive on #COP29 host Azerbaijan + the Caucasus+Central Asia region highlights exactly this trend, with >3X as much fossil capacity under construction than from wind+utility-scale solar