Full Title: Global Electricity Mid-Year Insights 2022
Author(s): Malgorzata Wiatros-Motyka
Publisher(s): Ember
Publication Date: October 5, 2022
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Description (excerpt):
This report gives mid-year insights into the global electricity transition.
It analyses electricity data from 75 countries representing 90% of global electricity demand and includes projections for changes in the remaining countries. It compares the first six months of 2022 (H1-2022) to the same period in 2021 (H1-2021) to show how the electricity transition has progressed.
The world is in the middle of an energy crisis. With all the headlines, it might have been expected that coal and gas use would have increased in 2022. But that is not what happened, at least in the electricity sector. In fact, in the first half of 2022, renewables met all the growth in global electricity demand, halting the rise in fossil fuels.