{"id":655632,"date":"2026-05-08T08:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T08:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/655632\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T08:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T08:55:08","slug":"what-went-right-this-week-the-good-news-that-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/655632\/","title":{"rendered":"What went right this week: the good news that matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                    The world \u2018entered the age of electricity\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>Fossil fuels are losing their grip on the global energy market as renewables provide a greater share of power.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s according to a global energy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iea.org\/reports\/global-energy-review-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">review<\/a> by the International Energy Agency (IEA), which declared that \u201cthe world has entered the age of electricity\u201d, with many economies now electrifying at pace.<\/p>\n<p>Overall demand for energy continued to rise in 2025, the report found, with a quarter of new demand met by solar \u2013 the first time that a renewable source met the largest share of demand growth.<\/p>\n<p>The IEA also highlighted the growing role of batteries in electricity grids. Battery storage, it said, was the fastest-growing power sector technology in 2025, a trend that\u2019s likely to accelerate.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t all good news, however. Demand for oil, gas and coal also grew in 2025 (by 0.7%, 1% and 0.4% respectively), albeit at a slower rate than in 2024. The rollout of electric cars, sales of which surged by 20%, kept oil demand \u201cin check\u201d, the IEA said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Still, global energy related emissions still increased by 0.4% last year, when they needed to be rapidly falling. In one sign of hope, however, the IEA confirmed what other researchers had found: that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.positive.news\/society\/good-news-stories-from-week-20-of-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">China\u2019s emissions contracted<\/a> in 2025.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Image: Nikola Jonny Mirkovic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The world \u2018entered the age of electricity\u2019 Fossil fuels are losing their grip on the global energy market&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655633,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[12349,49,48,16745,4717,10711,84,392],"class_list":["post-655632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-alzheimers","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-electricity","tag-energy","tag-good-news","tag-health","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}