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@EmberClimate
Global energy think tank accelerating the clean energy transition with data and policy #CleanPower info@ember-climate.org
Jul 30 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
The data is in 📈

Here’s what happened in EU electricity in the first six months of 2024 🇪🇺

🧵1/9 Wind and solar saw strong growth in the first half of 2024, outpacing increasing electricity demand and pushing fossil generation into continued decline.

A rebound in hydro generation meant that renewables generated HALF of all EU electricity during this period ⚡

2/9 Image
May 30 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Solar surged in 2023 📈

74% more solar was installed in 2023 than in 2022, the fastest percentage rise since 2011.

Based on @IRENA’s renewable capacity data, we present six charts that explain 2023’s record solar surge. Key highlights in a #thread Image China is in the lead:

☀️China installed 55% more solar capacity than the previous year 📈x4.5 faster than the G7 (+12%)

🌬️China installed 21% more wind capacity than the previous year 📈x4.6 faster than the G7 (+4.5%) Image
Apr 8 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
NEW from Ember electricity data:

Electricity demand has stabilised in the EU, but fossil generation keeps falling ⚡🇪🇺 1/4 Image Last winter, some months showed increases in EU electricity demand for the first time in two years 2/4 Image
Aug 16, 2023 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
With its proposed mines, #Whitehaven will double its #methane pollution over the next decade, releasing >1 million tonnes of methane by 2050 according to our latest data.

The climate impact is worse than the annual emissions of an additional 56 million cars🚗.

A thread 🧵(1/6) Image “This flies in the face of Australia’s climate commitments and asks serious questions about the amount of risk these expansion plans pose,” says @Chris_climate_., Climate Strategy Advisor at Ember. (2/6)

#Whitehaven #methane

https://t.co/Ty8SBLa2zeember-climate.org/insights/resea…
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Aug 2, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
#Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas that often goes unnoticed in climate discussions.

But cutting methane emissions - especially those from coal mines - is the strongest lever we have to slow #climatechange in the short-term.

A 🧵 (1/5): Image Methane has a short-term climate impact 82.5 times larger than CO2, and #coalmines are a big source of it.

Methane is embedded in coal seams and surrounding rock strata. It is emitted before, during and long after the mining process.

2/5
Mar 17, 2023 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
BREAKING | Solar and wind dominate 🇮🇳India’s electricity capacity additions in 2022.

92% of India's total added capacity comprises wind and solar, while coal accounted for only 5% last year.

🧵1/4

ember-climate.org/insights/resea…

#IndiaRES In 2022, India added:
☀️ 13.9 GW of solar capacity
🌪️ 1.8 GW of wind capacity

In total, the country added 15.7 GW of new capacity, 17% above additions in 2021. This is comparable to the UK’s entire solar fleet as of 2021.

🧵2/4

ember-climate.org/insights/resea…

#IndiaRES
Oct 13, 2022 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Putin’s war accelerates the EU’s fossil fuel detox

Article by @POLITICOEurope with data from our new EU 2030 targets tracker (see🧵)

politico.eu/article/vladim… NEW | EU Power Sector 2030 Targets Tracker

Tracking the latest renewables, fossil and clean electricity targets of European countries.

ember-climate.org/data/data-tool…
Mar 30, 2022 • 10 tweets • 12 min read
BREAKING | #Wind & #Solar hit a record TENTH of global electricity in 2021.

But the global electricity transition needs to sustain high growth rates to replace coal & reduce emissions.

⚡️10 Tweet Thread of the Global Power Sector in 2021

[1/10] #GER22
ember-climate.org/insights/resea… We analysed annual power generation data for 209 countries from 2000 to 2020, with 2021 data included for 75 countries representing 93% of global power demand.

What did we find? #Wind and #solar took off!

[2/10] #GER22
ember-climate.org/insights/resea…
Mar 29, 2021 • 10 tweets • 9 min read
⚡️ 10 Tweet Thread - Global Power Sector in 2020

What happened in 2020?
⏸️Pandemic paused electricity demand growth
⏩Wind and solar grew +315 TWh (+15%)
⏪Replacing coal generation -346 TWh (-4%)

[1/10] Ember's #GER21 Report
ember-climate.org/global-electri… Growth in #wind and #solar helped drive global #coal power to a record fall of 4%.

Except in China. Despite impressive wind & solar growth, this didn’t keep up with electricity demand, so coal rose to fill the gap.

[2/10] #GER21
ember-climate.org/global-electri…
Jan 25, 2021 • 10 tweets • 7 min read
🇪🇺 10 Tweet Thread of the EU Power Sector in 2020

Key findings of our fifth annual report with @AgoraEW

1. Renewables overtook fossil fuels as the EU’s main source of electricity in 2020.

ember-climate.org/project/eu-pow… 2. Renewables generated 38% of Europe’s electricity in 2020, overtaking fossil fuels (37%). Nuclear power generated 25% of EU-27 electricity.

This green milestone was also reached in Spain and Germany in 2020.

EU Power Sector in 2020: ember-climate.org/project/eu-pow…
Apr 30, 2020 • 11 tweets • 6 min read
In the last 30 days, Europe's electricity sector CO2 emissions have collapsed by 39%.

This is giving valuable lessons on how to run a fossil-free electricity grid.

What are these lessons?
THREAD: 1/11 2/11 The lights have stayed on! The electricity system is robust: no excuse to slow wind+solar investment.

That's despite a 42% fall in Europe's coal gen & 30% fall in gas gen (chart).

Read EU's security briefing: ec.europa.eu/info/news/focu…

@ENTSO_E's summer outlook out end-May