{"id":67190,"date":"2025-10-08T13:28:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T13:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/67190\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T13:28:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T13:28:13","slug":"renewable-energy-produces-more-electricity-globally-than-coal-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/67190\/","title":{"rendered":"Renewable energy produces more electricity globally than coal for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Renewable energy has produced more of the world&#8217;s electricity than coal, for the first time ever.<\/p>\n<p>In the first half of the year, solar and wind energy outstripped growth in global electricity demand, and led to a reduction in the use of fossil fuels.<\/p>\n<p>Research carried out by think-tank Ember shows that developing countries led the clean energy charge, with China and India both seeing fossil fuel use declining.<\/p>\n<p>The team analysed data from 88 countries, which represents 93 per cent of global demand.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"not-prose no-underline\" data-action=\"click\" data-category=\"Read more article clicked\" data-label=\"https:\/\/www.breakingnews.ie\/ireland\/renewables-provided-a-third-of-electricity-in-november-eirgrid-1703971.html\" data-value=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.breakingnews.ie\/ireland\/renewables-provided-a-third-of-electricity-in-november-eirgrid-1703971.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2-18003813.jpg\" class=\"rounded-sm object-contain bg-transparent z-10 w-full h-full not-prose\" alt=\"Renewables Provided A Third Of Electricity In November \u2014 Eirgrid\" width=\"278\" height=\"156\" \/><\/p>\n<p>        Ireland<\/p>\n<p>Renewables provided a third of electricity in November \u2014 EirGrid<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Newstalk, Oisin Coghlan, Policy Advisor with the Environmental Pillar, said there is a good reason for this:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Solar electricity is now pretty much the cheapest way to make electricity anywhere in the world.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So we&#8217;re beginning to get a leapfrog effect.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the same way as coal-fired or gas-fired electricity didn&#8217;t reach places in Africa, solar now is, because you can put it up on your village yourself and you don&#8217;t have to even rely on the grid.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Renewable energy has produced more of the world&#8217;s electricity than coal, for the first time ever. In the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67191,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[246,61,60,82],"class_list":["post-67190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}