{"id":82483,"date":"2025-10-07T14:43:51","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T14:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/renewables-overtake-coal-as-worlds-biggest-source-of-electricity-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T14:43:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T14:43:51","slug":"renewables-overtake-coal-as-worlds-biggest-source-of-electricity-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/renewables-overtake-coal-as-worlds-biggest-source-of-electricity-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Renewables overtake coal as world&#8217;s biggest source of electricity | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Renewable energy overtook coal as the world&#8217;s leading source of electricity in the first half of this year &#8211; a <!--more--> historic first, according to new data from the global energy think tank Ember.<\/p>\n<p>Electricity demand has grown around the world but the growth in solar and wind was so strong it met 100% of the extra electricity demand.<\/p>\n<p>However, Ember said the headlines mask a mixed global picture.<\/p>\n<p>Developing countries, especially China, led the clean energy charge but richer nations including the US and EU relied more than before on planet-warming fossil fuels for electricity generation.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news <\/p>\n<p>#RenewableEnergy #BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Renewable energy overtook coal as the world&#8217;s leading source of electricity in the first half of this year &#8211; a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}