In spite of national and international efforts, however, forecasts do not show the global
share of renewable energy increasing significantly.
Recent and future trends in the increasing
share of renewables in overall electricity generation and its effect on nuclear power are also presented.
Such a
high share of renewables requires significant adaptation of energy markets to create fair and sustainable conditions for their further growth.
There are issues around the public acceptance of nuclear energy in some European countries; tough economic conditions for operators in parts of the United States and Europe where power prices have fallen due to a growing
share of renewable sources and Japan has permanently closed six reactors which had been offline since the Fukushima accident in 2011, the report said.
This trend is mostly driven by the rapid growth of two - and three - wheelers in China but also results from electric cars in European markets with high
shares of renewable generation.
This analysis assesses the rapid improvement in the competitiveness and economics of renewables, relative to fossil - fuels and other low carbon options, as well as the opportunities and questions that a
rising share of renewable energy open up for the energy system as a whole.
The United States represents over one - fifth of global electricity consumption in cars, but the estimated consumption of renewable electricity is expected to be smaller than in China and Europe as a result of the
lower share of renewables in the electricity mix.
Modest improvements in global electrification and access to clean cooking overshadow more significant progress in the
global share of renewable energy reports Global Tracking Framework 2017 — Progress Toward Sustainable Energy, launched today in New York.
Uneven uptake, barriers ranging from technology and financial risks, and integration challenges in markets with high
shares of renewables persist.
«This shift towards a higher
share of renewables clearly means a transformation of our energy system,» said spokesperson Beate Baron at the Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy (BMWI) in Berlin.
Beyond the growing market share for natural gas - fired generation over the past decade, coal's generation share has also been reduced by the growing market
share of renewables other than hydroelectric power, especially wind and solar.
Thursday the European Parliament's Industry and Energy Committee said it would push a plan calling for a 5
percent share of renewables in transport fuel by 2015 and a 10 percent target by 2020, a reduction from the 20 percent target set forth in March 2007.
The biggest achievers in 2016 included Bank of America, Astra Zeneca and Coca Cola Enterprises Inc.,
whose share of renewable electricity increased more than threefold;
China continues to have the lion's
share of renewables employment worldwide, with more than 3.5 million people in the sector supporting the country's irresistible rise in clean energy.
I think we will see much more sector coupling in the years to come and really a convergence of these different sectors which will enable integration of
prior shares of renewables because then the electric vehicles can serve as storage for electricity when it is generated by the reliable sources, but when it is not consumed at the same time.
South Australia's rising
share of renewable power could cause blackouts in the state if the Australian Energy Market Operator doesn't intervene, the agency's chief executive, Matt Zema, said.
«With the
increasing share of renewable energy sources, electricity generation is in many Member States shifting from a system of relatively stable and continuous supply towards a system with more numerous and small - scale supply of variable sources,» the Commission said in its note.
This represents nearly a quarter (23.0 %) of total OECD electricity production in 2015 (Figure 5), the
largest share of renewables in gross electricity production for any year in the renewables time series (from 1990).
«Whether this growth continues in the long term after state renewable portfolio standards are met and the standard utility supply has a greater
share of renewable generation, or after the most environmentally conscientious customers have already subscribed, is undetermined.»
It supports feed - in tariffs, which it hails as the key to the success of a
growing share of renewables in German electricity consumption.
But the IEA expects the
overall share of renewables in heat consumption to increase only slowly, rising from 9 % in 2015 to 11 % in 2022.
The target, it argued, «does not create any obstacles for social and economic development and corresponds to general objectives of the land - use and sustainable forest management policies, raising the level of energy efficiency, reducing energy intensity of the economy and increasing
share of renewables in the Russian energy balance.»
This guidance document shows that modern district energy as the most effective approach for many cities to transition to sustainable heating and cooling, by improving energy efficiency and enabling
higher shares of renewables.
That same year, Nicaragua pledged to increase
its share of renewable energy from 53 % to 90 % by 2020.
While both provinces have set laudable targets for increasing
the share of renewable power on their grids over the coming decades, they're still burning fossil fuels for power.
Not coincidentally, as the chart below shows, wind's
share of renewable - energy output has soared.
Tracking SDG7: The Energy Progress Report provides the international community with a global dashboard to register progress on the targets of Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG7): ensuring universal energy access, doubling progress on energy efficiency and substantially increasing
the share of renewable energy by 2030.
South Korea got just 4.7 % of its power from renewables in 2016 and, in 2015, ranked 45th in a survey of 46 nations that looked at
the share of renewables in each country's energy mix.
In 2002, after just two years of the EEG law,
the share of renewable power on the German grid doubled to 5 percent, far ahead of schedule and without any cities going dark.
In addition to reconvening the panel, Cuomo wants to shutter the state's last coal plants, expand the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative and increase
the share of renewable energy on the grid.
First, increase
the share of renewable energy sources, such as wind and hydro - power, in the fuel mix and as a result maintain high energy independence.
U.S. refiners need to accumulate credits, or Renewable Identification Numbers (RINs), to prove they have blended
their share of renewable fuels into gasoline and diesel.