alt Hacker NewsThe 2026 Ember report said that 99% of new global electricity demand was met by solar+wind (solar 75% alone). Solar broke its previous records on relative and absolute installed numbers. Fossil fuel usage shrank. There might be regional changes, but there is no stopping solar.
https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/global-electricity-...
Good news. But "there is no stopping solar" is a straw-man. Nobody said it's stopping.
(Also, I'm discussing an apparent slowdown in Spain's rate of new solar capacity (given the article is about Spain). And global trends are not too relevant to that topic. We all know it's easy to hide issues in global stats – domestic consumers Spain won't care if China increases their solar by 1000000%, for example.)