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Seems high to me too, and the lack of peer review doesn’t help
FFS… They could at least fucking skim the report they are writing about. It’s not 40%, it’s 28%…
The total global electricity consumption, from all sources, including renewables, was 28 500 TWh in 2022, a 2.5% increase compared with 2021 (and a 25% increase compared with ten years earlier, 2013) (EMBER, 2023). According to IRENA (2023b) the percentage of electricity consumption met by RE was 27.8% in 2022, up from 27.6% in 2021. According to the International Energy Agency (IEA) (2023), demand is expected to grow by slightly less than 2% in 2023.
I couldn’t find any related 40% in the report pdf. However there is a difference between fraction of capacity, and fraction of consumption - not all capacity is used, maybe that explains some of the gap?
I found where it comes from
I don’t see a graph here or source, do you know where it’s from? This is giving about one quarter depending how you define renewable.
Here bard says it’s about 29% https://g.co/bard/share/5d4283708e75 But the first time I asked it said 40%. That’s odd …
Lets look up ‘2022 Year in Review: Climate-driven Global Renewable Energy Potential Resources and Energy Demand’ to make sure it isn’t hallucinating.
Here’s the paper, but I can’t find the percentage number. https://www.irena.org/Publications/2023/Dec/2022-Year-in-Review-Climate-driven-Global-Renewable-Energy-Potential-Resources-and-Energy-Demand
40% is expected for 2027. Crazy race. https://g.co/bard/share/ac38ca250684
