Renewables to overtake coal and become world's biggest source of electricity generation by 2025, IEA says

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : A report from the International Energy Agency "expects renewables to become the primary energy source for electricity generation globally in the next three years, overtaking coal."
58% : Renewables are on course to overtake coal and become the planet's biggest source of electricity generation by the middle of this decade, according to the International Energy Agency.
58% : "Renewables [will] become the largest source of global electricity generation by early 2025, surpassing coal," it added.
51% : According to its "main-case forecast," the IEA expects renewables to account for nearly 40% of worldwide electricity output in 2027, coinciding with a fall in the share of coal, natural gas and nuclear generation.
41% : However, gas exports from Russia to the European Union have slid this year, as member states sought to drain the Kremlin's war chest.

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