By Anand Upadhyay | Clean Technica | November 27, 2025 –
For several decades now, the fossil lobby has followed the renewable sector like a bad debt — constantly painting molehills as mountains, inventing false comparisons, and trying to derail public understanding any which way it can. Even the COP process has not been spared.
Thankfully, free global markets have used financial innovations to fund everything from small rooftops to gigantic utility solar and wind, in spite of the challenges thrown by opposing lobbies with deeper pockets. As 2025 draws to a close, it’s worth taking stock of where the global energy economy truly stands and how the next five years are likely to turn out.
Earlier this year, the US Energy Secretary, Chris Wright, claimed that renewables cannot play a major role (no physical way) in global energy supply. Yet:
- Europe already gets 22% of its electricity from solar alone.
- India and China, together 36% of global population, plan to add thousands of renewable energy gigawatts by 2050.
- AI-driven electricity demand is rising now — not waiting for 2030.
