Renewables Hit Record in 2025, but World Must Move Faster: Report
- On Monday, the International Renewable Energy Agency reported global renewable power capacity grew by a record 693 GW in 2025, bringing total installed capacity to 5.15 TW.
- Rising global energy demand complicates the transition, as renewables are not yet displacing enough fossil fuel use. Energy efficiency improvements fell to about 2% in 2025, missing the necessary 4% annual rate.
- Ben Backwell, chair of the Global Renewables Alliance, stated governments must make renewables a "national economic priority." The report notes nearly $1 trillion in annual grid investment is required through 2030, up from $525 billion in 2025.
- Simon Stiell, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change , hailed the shift as irreversible. Stiell noted that "thanks to global renewables, humanity avoided almost half a trillion US dollars in fossil fuel costs."
- Discussions at November's COP climate talks in Turkey will push for a new target of electricity meeting 35% of global final energy consumption by 2035. Leaders gather for the United Nations General Assembly as the report was published.
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Times of IndiaGlobal renewable capacity hits record 693 GW addition in 2025: IRENA
Global renewable power capacity expanded by a record 693 GW in 2025, taking total installed renewable capacity to 5.15 TW, according to IRENA. The pace has narrowed the gap to the COP28 goal of tripling renewable capacity by 2030, but the world remains short of the target. Rising electricity demand from cooling, AI and data centres is also limiting the displacement of fossil fuels, which still accounted for 86% of global energy in 2025.
Renewables hit record in 2025, but world must move faster: report
The report by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) was published as world leaders gather for the United Nations General Assembly following a record-hot northern hemisphere summer underscoring the worsening impacts of human-caused climate change. IRENA's report found that 693 gigawatts (GW) of new renewables power was added in 2025. That is over half the installed capacity of the entire United States. But to meet a global goal of tri…
IRENA, President of COP31 and Global Alliance for Renewable Energy, released data on the sector at the beginning of the New York Climate Week.
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