“Clean sources grew more than demand and therefore they displaced some fossil fuels”
Jeff Young | Newsweek | October 6, 2025
The remarkable growth in clean energy has, until now, been more about energy addition than energy transition, as the global growth in demand used up both the power from fossil fuels and new renewable sources.
In the first six months of this year, however, that appears to have shifted in what Wiatros-Motyka called “the first signs of a crucial turning point” where clean power is keeping pace with demand growth and beginning to muscle out fossil fuels.
“For the first time ever, we saw renewables overtaking coal generation globally,” Ember’s Senior Electricity Analyst Małgorzata Wiatros-Motyka told Newsweek..
Solar power alone met more than 80 percent of new electricity demand, she said, as solar deployment soared and prices for solar equipment continued to decline.
