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posted by mrpg on Thursday October 05 2017, @07:33AM   Printer-friendly
from the forecast-cloudy dept.

Solar power grew faster than any other source of fuel for the first time in 2016, the International Energy Agency said in a report suggesting the technology will dominate renewables in the years ahead.

The institution established after the first major oil crisis in 1973 said 165 gigawatts of renewables were completed last year, which was two-thirds of the net expansion in electricity supply. Solar powered by photovoltaics, or PVs, grew by 50 percent, with almost half of new plants built in China.

"What we are witnessing is the birth of a new era in solar PV," Fatih Birol, executive director of the IEA, said in a statement accompanying the report published on Wednesday in Paris. "We expect that solar PV capacity growth will be higher than any other renewable technology through 2022."

Solar Grew Faster Than All Other Forms of Power for the First Time
International Energy Agency

Solar power will only work until the sun burns out, but dinosaurs are forever.


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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Aiwendil on Thursday October 05 2017, @12:38PM

    by Aiwendil (531) on Thursday October 05 2017, @12:38PM (#577418) Journal

    Oh, ad hominem, your concession has been acknowledged.

    But to answer - exactly what is it I should search on? Nameplate capacity? Production? Grid connections? Orders? Completed construction? and so on...
    Without specifying that I can tell you that lignin biogas far has outperformed solar for the last couple of years (by specifying - it is the per percentage annual growth since it finally got from small scale to pilot industrial [in terms of capacity however it is still sub-gigawatt])

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