In the last year of that graph 2023-2024, the increase in solar was greater than any other source, including coal, it's 15x greater than nuclear.

And unless people are shoveling coal directly into the data centres this electricity generating gas turbine is intended to be used for the electricity generation mix is more appropriate to conapre:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/electricity-production-by...

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AuthAuth 12 hours ago | parent [-]

why are you fixating on 1 single year? Look at the past 10 years or past 5 years and its the complete opposite.

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Tadpole9181 11 hours ago | parent [-]

Why are they looking at the most recent year when discussing the changing trend of exponential differential growth to point out it has now surpassed others, instead of the prior years where that differential was slower and the other was still growing faster?

I mean... Seems obvious, no?

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AuthAuth 10 hours ago | parent [-]

No because they are highlighting a single year where solar was exceptionally high and when you look at a 5 year period it tells a completely different story. If you look at future investment there is still 60 trillion being spent on new coal and while thats smaller than the future investment in solar you need to account for the fact that there current power is already 60% coal.

Even if we give China the most charity and take their 2025 results at face vault(even though they NEED to be independently verified) China is at best average when it comes % of gridpower that is renewable. Off the top of my head I think they are like 27-30% renewable. But its actually worse because they are the biggest polluter by a mile. Bigger the next 6 biggest polluters combined.

	▲	ZeroGravitas an hour ago \| parent [-]
		It wasn't a "single year where solar was exceptionally high" because they generated more in 2025 by mid August than they did in the full year of 2024. https://ember-energy.org/data/electricity-data-explorer/?ent... The coal line was slightly under the previous year’s and is now overlapping i.e. no growth compared with last year (data up to October)