{"id":125046,"date":"2021-07-16T14:22:55","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T21:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/fossil-fuel-electricity-generation-has-peaked-worldwide"},"modified":"2021-07-16T14:22:55","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T21:22:55","slug":"fossil-fuel-electricity-generation-has-peaked-worldwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/fossil-fuel-electricity-generation-has-peaked-worldwide","title":{"rendered":"Fossil fuel electricity generation has peaked worldwide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fossil-fuel-electricity-generation-has-peaked-worldwide.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cEmerging markets have no need to build up huge electrical infrastructure based on fossil fuels. Instead, they are leapfrogging this stage and meeting growth in demand by deploying clean energy systems \u2014 such as wind and solar \u2014 with huge potential to boost economic development and bring electricity to millions more people.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<strong>Fossil fuel electricity generation has peaked worldwide as emerging markets seize the opportunities of low-cost renewables, according to a report published this week by India\u2019s Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW) and the financial think tank Carbon Tracker.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Renewables are already the cheapest source of new electricity additions in 90% of the world, the report notes. Emerging markets (non-OECD nations plus Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Costa Rica) therefore have no need to build up huge electrical infrastructure based on fossil fuels. Instead, they are leapfrogging this stage and meeting growth in demand by deploying clean energy systems \u2013 such as wind and solar \u2013 with huge potential to boost economic development and bring electricity to millions more people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cEmerging markets have no need to build up huge electrical infrastructure based on fossil fuels. Instead, they are leapfrogging this stage and meeting growth in demand by deploying clean energy systems \u2014 such as wind and solar \u2014 with huge potential to boost economic development and bring electricity to millions more people.\u201d Fossil fuel electricity [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":566,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,1497,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-energy","category-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/566"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}