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Wednesday · April 29, 2026 Vol. I · No. 119
Vol. I · No. 119
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2025: The year renewables finally outpaced global electricity demand growth

BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Something shifted in the world’s energy system in 2025, and the numbers are hard to argue with. For the first time in modern history, clean energy generation grew faster than global electricity demand, meaning every new watt of power the world needed last year came from renewables, not coal, […] The post 2025: The year renewables finally outpaced global electri

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