{"id":245661,"date":"2025-10-28T05:34:24","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T05:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/245661\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T05:34:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T05:34:24","slug":"chart-solar-is-driving-renewable-energy-to-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/245661\/","title":{"rendered":"Chart: Solar is driving renewable energy to new\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Between 2025 and 2030, the world is expected to build nearly 4,600\u00a0gigawatts \u2014 or 4.6\u00a0terawatts, if you please \u2014 of clean power, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iea.org\/reports\/renewables-2025\/renewable-electricity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a\u00a0new report<\/a> from the International Energy Agency.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">That\u2019s nearly double the amount built over the previous five-year period, which was in turn more than double the amount built across the five years before that. Put differently, the growth has essentially been exponential.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Solar is the driving force behind this expansion, which is key to transitioning the world away from planet-warming fossil fuels. It accounts for more than three-quarters of the expected increase in renewables between 2025 and 2030 \u2014 the result, IEA says, of not only low equipment costs but also solid permitting rules and a\u00a0broad social acceptance of the\u00a0tech.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">This solar boom will be almost equally split between utility-scale installations and distributed projects, meaning panels atop roofs or shade structures in parking lots, for example. Just over 2\u00a0TW of large-scale projects will be built compared to 1.5\u00a0TW of the smaller, distributed stuff, IEA predicts. The latter category is increasingly popular both in countries with rising electricity rates and in places with unreliable grids, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/goats-and-soda\/2025\/08\/21\/g-s1-82369\/solar-power-panels-boom-pakistan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">like Pakistan<\/a>, where residents are taking refuge in the affordable and stable nature of the\u00a0tech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Between 2025 and 2030, the world is expected to build nearly 4,600\u00a0gigawatts \u2014 or 4.6\u00a0terawatts, if you please&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[64,63,75,128],"class_list":["post-245661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}