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xnx • today at 5:06 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

+1 to the Guardian for mentioning their data source, but -1 for not linking to it.

+2 for EMBER for having a data source AND being able to link to the parameters that show solar overtaking coal for the month in the US.

https://ember-energy.org/data/electricity-data-explorer/?ent...

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3eb7988a1663 • today at 6:17 PM

For people who are interested in this space should very much read EMBER. They make digestable, data rich reporting.

The latest 2025 summary report[0] has some great information, some top-level call-outs

  - Solar power alone met 75% of the net increase in electricity demand. Together with wind, the two sources met almost all (99%) demand growth.
  - For the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, and only the fifth time this century, fossil generation did not rise, recording a small fall of 38 TWh (-0.2%)
  - For the first time in 100 years, renewables (33.8%, 10,730 TWh) overtook coal power (33.0%, 10,476 TWh) in the global electricity mix...
[0] https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/global-electricity-...
actionfromafar • today at 7:34 PM

Have EMBER been vetted by the Ministry of Truth?