Record solar growth meant clean power sources grew fast enough to meet all new electricity demand in 2025, thereby preventing an increase in fossil generation, according to Ember’s seventh annual Global Electricity Review . This was the first year since 2020 without an increase in electricity generation from fossil fuels and only the fifth year without a rise this century.
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Climate progress: from net-zero ambitions to the Paris Agreement goal
Climate targets require strong commitments from countries to be achieved. Using a multi-model analysis, new research shows that current net-zero pledges bring the world closer to a well-below 2 °C pathway, but an emission gap remains. Increasing ambition will be crucial: expanding the global coverage of net-zero pledges and speeding up action increases consistency with the Paris Agreement (1.5–2.0 °C range in model mean).
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New coalition to set sustainability standards for AI data centres
Clear, credible benchmarks for sustainable data centre are being developed through the Greening AI Data Centres Coalition (GADCC). The coalition brings together nine of the world’s leading built environment, sustainability and finance organisations in response to the rapid global growth of AI-driven data centres and the increasing pressures these facilities place on energy systems and networks, water resources and local communities.
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UK Government to reduce impact of gas prices on electricity costs
The UK Government is setting out new measures to reduce the impact that volatile gas prices have on the price of electricity. These measures will further reduce the share of electricity exposed to gas price shocks and provide generators the economic incentive to move on to fixed contracts not linked to volatile gas. This will be done by two means.
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Electricity demand set to soar
The increase in electricity consumption through 2027 is expected to average around 4% annually, says the International Energy Agency (IEA).