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[–] cron 22 points 3 months ago (2 children)

All low-carbon sources combined, including hydroelectric and nuclear power, surged this year and combined made up 73% of all electricity generation.

That is great news!

[–] NegativeInf@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

I'll revise my earlier statements, this is another line I want to see only go up!

[–] EherNicht 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Now they just need to make up 73% of energy consumption.

[–] cron 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Given this includes coal, oil and gas, this will take a while.

[–] EherNicht 2 points 3 months ago

That’s why you neat to provide viable public transportation and change to heat pumps.

[–] Vincent@feddit.nl 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

One important thing to always keep in mind with news like this is that there's a difference between electricity and energy, where the latter includes e.g. trucks burning petrol or the metal industry burning coal.

Still a good sign, but electricity use if about 20% of our total energy use, if I recall correctly. With the caveat that, as we switch to a more renewable future, much of our energy use is transitioned to electricity as well (e.g. electric vs petrol cars).

[–] Ooops 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

But -just to provide some context as I often see those stupid arguments that electrification cannnot work when we need that much elelctricity- the "total energy use" includes production losses and transport of fossil fuels as well as comparably very low efficiency (in heating and combustion engines in particular). So despite having 80% of the energy use to replace with electricity it's not a factor of 5 but more closer to ~2,5 (even less for countries with a lower amount of heavy, energy intensive industries).

[–] Vincent@feddit.nl 4 points 3 months ago

And in general it's a good idea to conserve energy in addition to electrification, of course :)