Fossil Fuel Production Soaring Despite Data Showing Dropping Renewable Energy Costs
Although renewables are performing better than they ever have amid increasing demand and dropping prices, fossil fuel production is still soaring. Solar and wind energy cumulatively accounted for around 12% of global electricity generation in 2023, and experts predict renewable energy production from these sources will increase significantly over the decade. Wind energy broke the threshold of a terawatt of energy generated this year, which is almost equal to the total capacity of installed wind energy in the United States while solar energy reached the threshold last year. The commercial solar sector installed 1.4 gigawatts of solar, the community solar…