Planned or under-construction solar and wind projects slowed last year, analysis showed Tuesday, casting doubts on whether countries will hit a goal of tripling renewable capacity by decade-end.
Dozens of nations agreed in 2023 to triple renewable energy capacity by 2030 as part of efforts to limit global warming.
But announcements and construction starts of new wind and solar projects grew 11 percent in 2025 — down from 22 percent in the previous year, as wind development projects faced hurdles, Global Energy Monitor (GEM) said.
A good thing China is building renewables like crazy anyway.
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GEM is an incredible open source resource. But these figures must be taken with the major caveat that GEM is only monitoring utility-scale projects (above 50MW if my memory is correct).
Which is fine for wind but obviously is not geared to capture rapid growth in rooftop residential and C&I, which may or may not be following the same trend as the utility scale developments.
That can be much harder to keep up with especially once getting outside of HICs into LICs and MICs where permitting and record keeping for such things can get scatty, and you have to triangulate off Chinese import statistics and if you’re lucky some satellite imagery sampling.
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Because usa loves China and wants to give them everything.
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Because some idiot believes “the noise from the windmills causes cancer.”
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**From AFP:**
Planned or under-construction solar and wind projects slowed last year, analysis showed Tuesday, casting doubts on whether countries will hit a goal of tripling renewable capacity by decade-end.
Dozens of nations agreed in 2023 to triple renewable energy capacity by 2030 as part of efforts to limit global warming.
But announcements and construction starts of new wind and solar projects grew 11 percent in 2025 — down from 22 percent in the previous year, as wind development projects faced hurdles, Global Energy Monitor (GEM) said.
Read more: [https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/solar-wind-capacity-growth-slowed-034400659.html](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/solar-wind-capacity-growth-slowed-034400659.html)
Yeah I wonder what might have happened last year that might have impacted the amount of renewable energy being built globally
[https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/climate/wind-solar-projects.html](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/climate/wind-solar-projects.html)
[https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/02/united-states-trump-canceled-clean-energy-projects-billions-investment-job-losses/](https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/02/united-states-trump-canceled-clean-energy-projects-billions-investment-job-losses/)
[https://apnews.com/article/trump-offshore-wind-energy-climate-c0ac1e447c93126327f1922327921aa0](https://apnews.com/article/trump-offshore-wind-energy-climate-c0ac1e447c93126327f1922327921aa0)
Hmmm, yeah nah, can’t think of anything.
A good thing China is building renewables like crazy anyway.
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GEM is an incredible open source resource. But these figures must be taken with the major caveat that GEM is only monitoring utility-scale projects (above 50MW if my memory is correct).
Which is fine for wind but obviously is not geared to capture rapid growth in rooftop residential and C&I, which may or may not be following the same trend as the utility scale developments.
That can be much harder to keep up with especially once getting outside of HICs into LICs and MICs where permitting and record keeping for such things can get scatty, and you have to triangulate off Chinese import statistics and if you’re lucky some satellite imagery sampling.
Because usa loves China and wants to give them everything.
Because some idiot believes “the noise from the windmills causes cancer.”