Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! How much is renewable energy dominating new power capacity worldwide? That’s how much! 92.5% of new power capacity added to the grid in 2024 came from renewable energy sources. This is not even a ... [continued]
If those both are true, that’d mean the green energy has a really abysmal utilization factor (power generated to installed capacity ratio). I think it’d imply a utilization factor of 0.038. I thought it was closer to 0.37 for wind and 0.25 for solar. Maybe there’s a difference in what each is counting as renewable? Or how they’re continuing non renewable production capacity?
92.5x/7.5=32/67, x=0.038