Solar Surpasses Wind In Global Electricity Generation For The First Time
Backs X-Energy Reactor With Up to $2.15 Billion Utility-scale solar costs have increased… Robert Rapier is a chemical engineer in the energy industry.
He has 25 years of international engineering experience in the chemical, oil and gas, and… In 2007, nearly two decades ago, I wrote an article called “The Future Is Solar.” At the time, my argument was largely based on efficiency.
I had been comparing biofuels with direct solar energy and noted how much more effectively solar panels could capture the sun’s energy than crops could convert it into liquid fuel.
Solar was still expensive, storage was a major challenge, and the world’s energy infrastructure was built around fossil fuels.
It has been a long time coming, but the numbers now make it increasingly difficult to argue that the solar future is still some distant prospect.
The latestStatistical Review of World Energyshows just how dramatically the renewable landscape has changed.
Solar generation surged again in 2025 and, for the first time, surpassed wind as a source of global electricity.
Hydropower remains the largest renewable source overall, but solar is now the fastest-growing major component of the world’s renewable power supply.
Worldwide electricity generation reached about 32,202 terawatt-hours (TWh) in 2025.
Hydroelectricity, wind, solar, and other renewable sources combined generated approximately 10,749 TWh.
That means renewables supplied about 33.4% of global electricity.
Hydroelectric power remained the largest contributor at 4,479 TWh, accounting for 13.9% of worldwide electricity generation.
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