{"id":220766,"date":"2025-10-13T05:19:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T05:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/220766\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T05:19:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T05:19:15","slug":"electricity-from-renewables-overtakes-coal-in-australia-for-the-first-time-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/220766\/","title":{"rendered":"Electricity from renewables overtakes coal in Australia for the first time | Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Electricity generated from renewable sources has surpassed the amount of electricity generated from coal in Australia for the first time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">In September electricity from solar, wind hydro and biomass totalled 9.24 terawatt hours, compared with 8.8 terawatt hours from burning coal, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/ember-energy.org\/data\/electricity-data-explorer\/?entity=Australia\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">data from the energy thinktank Ember<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><a href=\"https:\/\/interactive.guim.co.uk\/embed\/superyacht\/index.html?location=safeharbour&amp;key=64ec21ec-c1eb-4ae0-a073-2b67df5fc33c\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here for an audio accessible version of the chart<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">According to <a href=\"https:\/\/reneweconomy.com.au\/renewables-overtake-coal-for-first-time-on-monthly-basis-in-australias-main-grid\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Renew Economy<\/a>, the monthly record for renewables was in part due to strong electricity production from windfarms in Tasmania, and strong electricity production from solar farms around Australia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Electricity generation from renewables <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2025\/oct\/07\/global-renewable-energy-generation-surpasses-coal-first-time\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">also surpassed coal globally in the first half of 2025<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Electricity generated from renewable sources has surpassed the amount of electricity generated from coal in Australia for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,79],"class_list":{"0":"post-220766","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}