Think tank Ember published a report on 29 March that indicates that the growth in renewable energies in 2020 has helped bring about a record fall in coal as a result of the decrease in electricity demand caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.
According to this report, electricity generation from wind turbines and solar panels thus rose by 15% (+314 TWh) last year, while generation from coal fell by 4% (-346 TWh).
Although this fall in coal is good news in terms of greenhouse gas emissions,...