Low-emissions energy sources met all new global electricity demand for the first time last year, leaving no room for fossil fuels to grow, the energy think tank Ember has found.Solar power led the charge, meeting three-quarters of the 849 TWh in new demand. Wind power met almost all the rest.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listAll low-emissions sources, which also include biofuels – generated from decaying agricultural and food waste – hydro-electricity and nuclear power, provided a record 42.6 percent of the 31,779 TWh of electricity the world consumed in 2025, said Ember.Fossil fuels provided the majority, but Ember believes 2025 marked a turning point after which their share will shrink.“Clean power deployment is now at such a high level that it can structurally meet the increase in demand,” Ember’s senior energy and climate data analyst Nicolas Fulghum told Al Jazeera. “In the next few years, we expect it to meet all the growth in electricity demand and start to push for a decline in fossil generation.”By about 2035, Ember expects fossil fuels’ share of the electricity market to have dropped by 10-20 percent, losing its market dominance to clean energy.Not everyone is convinced.“In an average year, if clean resources are sufficient to meet extra demand for electricity, that doesn’t establish that this is going to be a perma …
