{"id":137629,"date":"2022-04-02T12:04:41","date_gmt":"2022-04-02T17:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/wind-and-solar-energy-amounted-to-10-of-the-global-energy-consumption-in-2021"},"modified":"2022-04-02T12:04:41","modified_gmt":"2022-04-02T17:04:41","slug":"wind-and-solar-energy-amounted-to-10-of-the-global-energy-consumption-in-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/wind-and-solar-energy-amounted-to-10-of-the-global-energy-consumption-in-2021","title":{"rendered":"Wind and solar energy amounted to 10% of the global energy consumption in 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/wind-and-solar-energy-amounted-to-10-of-the-global-energy-consumption-in-2021.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s still a long way to go, but it\u2019s an important milestone.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Ten years ago, solar and wind didn\u2019t even make up 1% of our global energy mix. Now, in just a decade, they\u2019ve reached 10%. It may not seem like much, but becoming such a significant part of the global energy mix in such a short time is remarkable \u2014 though there\u2019s still a long way to go.<\/p>\n<p>The past couple of years have been horrendous in more ways than one, but that doesn\u2019t mean all is bad in the world. In fact, renewable energy continued its impressive growth, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/ember-climate.org\/insights\/research\/global-electricity-review-2022\/\">research from Ember<\/a>, a climate and energy think tank.<\/p>\n<p>As the world recoiled after the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, economies were eager to reopen, and demand for energy surged. Some of what growth was covered by coal, which experienced its fastest growth since 1985, but renewables also rose to the challenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s still a long way to go, but it\u2019s an important milestone. Ten years ago, solar and wind didn\u2019t even make up 1% of our global energy mix. Now, in just a decade, they\u2019ve reached 10%. It may not seem like much, but becoming such a significant part of the global energy mix in such [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":667,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,493,39,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-climatology","category-economics","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137629","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\/667"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}