Fossil Electricity Not Growing Globally, So What Is Growing And Where
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The AES Corporation 495-megawatt Alamitos natural gas-fired power station in Long Beach, California. Getty Images Fossil electricity is electricity produced from gas-fired or coal-fired power plants. A new report by Ember Energy shows that global fossil electricity did not grow in the first three quarters of 2025. This is the first time it has retreated since the Covid pandemic of 2020. The report projects the same result will be true for the whole year of 2025. How can this happen when fossil electricity is increasing by two big users: the U.S. and the EU? And what will it mean for the U.S. who is facing a critical shortage of electricity needed for data centers and AI? Electrical Generation By The Numbers. Table 1 gives the numbers for global electricity growth over Q1 – Q3 in 2025. Solar monstered all the rest, followed by wind. Solar and wind renewables together exceeded the demand for electricity growth, which is a telling statistic, given that electricity demand will keep rising, and probably rise even faster than now. Fossil electricity declined, but by a miniscule fraction. Nuclear growth was only 1.7% and this was all in China. For the U.S. and EU, new nuclear is at the starting gate in the race to provide power for data centers, while right now solar and wind together approach 40% growth rate (see table). Another telling statistic is the fraction of total global electrical production (not growth rate), in the last two lines of the table. Solar and wind together provide 18% while fossil provide 57% of worldwide production. So, while solar and wind are surging in 2025, coal and gas still do the heavy lifting. History tells us that fossil energies enabled the economies of the west in the past, and they are still growing the…
Filed under: News - @ November 13, 2025 5:27 am