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Environment & Energy

kristopher

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2. Voluntary or not, things are changing rapidly

Reply to Optimistic Crone (Reply #1)

Wed Jun 26, 2013, 02:09 PM

Jun 2013

Clean energy will overtake gas in the global electricity mix by 2016, making it the world's second largest power source behind coal, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has predicted.

Renewables growth continues to "beat expectations" and by 2018 it will make up a quarter of the global power mix, the Paris-based organisation predicts in its second annual Medium-Term Renewable Energy Market Report (MTRMR).

The agency said that global renewable generation in 2012 stood at 4,860TWh, greater than the total estimated electricity consumption of China, and grew at around eight per cent over the year.

The IEA now expects the growth in renewable power capacity to continue, increasing by 40 per cent over the next five years.

http://www.businessgreen.com/bg/news/2277313/iea-clean-energy-to-overtake-gas-by-2016

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Gives me hope [View all] Kolesar Jun 2013 OP

Free abundant energy?? Thrive, the movie, the movement Optimistic Crone Jun 2013 #1

Voluntary or not, things are changing rapidly kristopher Jun 2013 #2

Me too. wtmusic Jun 2013 #3

Hoped we were beyond the nuclear option by now. Optimistic Crone Jun 2013 #4

That graph looks about right for relative prices in the U.S. wtmusic Jun 2013 #5