30% of the world's electricity came from renewable sources in 2023
"This growth was mostly driven by the rapid rollout of solar and wind technologies. Hydropower generation actually fell in 2023 as a result of severe droughts, especially in China."
https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/renewable-electricity-2023
@bibliolater I was recently hearing about the disconnect between amount of energy produced versus amount that could actually be transmitted over energy grids.
I wonder if this statistic measures the former and not the latter.
@volkris Leakage is always problematic over any network. This particular data set I think compares the proportion of electricity produced from renewables versus the total electricity generation in the countries measured.
@bibliolater Oh to clarify, what I was referring to was a study saying that there's a lot of generation happening with literally no transmission lines to bring the generation to the rest of the world.
It was part of a call for increased investment in energy grids so they could be physically connected to the renewable generation that is currently just going to waste.
@volkris Thank you for the clarification.