Climate

Clean energy overtakes fossil fuels in global electricity

Renewables generated more electricity than fossil fuels worldwide for the first time in 2025, with clean energy absorbing the entire growth in global power demand. The UK government is now moving to lock in those gains domestically, shifting older wind and solar farms onto fixed-price contracts to shield households from future gas price shocks — a move covering almost a third of Great Britain's power market.

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Clean energy pushes fossil-fuel power into reverse for ‘first time ever’

Carbon Brief · Apr 20