Nicolas Fulghum
Senior Energy and Climate Data Analyst @emberenergy.bsky.social
Finding, curating and explaining the data behind the global energy⚡️transition.
- NEW | UK wind generation reached a new record in Jan 2026, producing 10.6 TWh 🇬🇧🍃 Prev. record of 10.4 TWh was set in December of 2023. Higher wind meant gas generation in Jan-26 dropped 17% compared to Jan-25, despite higher electricity demand. This saved an estimated £164 million in January.
- India's electrification shortcut! ⚡️🇮🇳 Solar, wind, batteries, electric vehicles...India's economy has different tools available than the US and China did at the same stage in their economic development. The result? An early turn away from fossil molecules towards electrons.
- Read the fascinating piece by the Ember futures team @kingsmillbond.bsky.social @daanwalt3r.bsky.social @sambutl3r.bsky.social ember-energy.org/latest-insig...
- From Germany, to Greece to all of the EU 🇪🇺 ⚡️ Full 2025 electricity generation data for Europe is now live in our @ember-energy.org Electricity Data Explorer! Free, easily accessible, for everyone! ember-energy.org/data/electri...
- We also launched our European Electricity Review 2026 today with detailed analysis on what's happening in the EU power sector. Check it out: ember-energy.org/latest-insig...
- Solar is now larger than gas power in Germany ☀️🇩🇪 Solar doubled from 9% of the mix in 2019 to 18% in 2025. Next year it could already surpass coal. The writing is on the wall for fossil fuels ❌
- NEW | Wind and solar overtake fossil fuels in the EU power sector 🇪🇺⚡️ Our @ember-energy.org European Electricity Review is out today, showing wind and solar reaching 30% of EU power, compared to 29% for fossil fuels. Here's what happened in EU electricity generation in 2025 🧵
- Solar continued its explosive rise with a record 62 TWh (+20%) increase over 2024. It was the largest source of power growth in the EU. Gas ticked up slightly due to falling hydro output, but was still down 18% from its pre-energy crisis peak.
- Solar growth isn't an isolated phenomenon in just a handful of countries → It grew in every single EU country in 2025 ☀️📈 Hungary leads in solar share (28%), while Germany leads in total output (90 TWh)
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View full threadGive the full report a read. It's full of interesting analysis, facts, figures and insights. Link here: ember-energy.org/latest-insig...
- NEW | China's solar product exports hit a record 455 GW in 2025, up 29% from 2024 ☀️ That's nearly double the total solar capacity ever installed in the US. Solar cell exports have doubled compared to 2024 as supply chains in other countries are ramping up.
- Check out the latest data in our @ember-energy.org China Solar PV Export Explorer ember-energy.org/data/chinas-...
- Until 2006, all of South Australia's 🇦🇺 electricity⚡️ came from coal and gas. Things have changed dramatically since then. Today, more than two-thirds come from solar and wind ☀️ Coal is already gone. A sign of things to come for other power sectors.
- NEW DATA Amid frequent renewables bashing in the US 🇺🇸, it was solar that met the majority of electricity demand growth in 2025 ☀️ Solar grew by a record 83 TWh and met 61% of fast-rising US demand. Without solar power, US electricity price worries would be much bigger.
- And solar is delivering where it's needed most Texas, the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic had some of the highest demand growth in 2025. That's also where solar power increased the most. Low-cost solar + batteries are the key to meeting rising load.
- Check out the full report by @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social and @kostantsa.bsky.social out today ember-energy.org/latest-insig...
- UK AR7 auction results are out today 🍃⚡ Excellent results with over 8 GW of capacity! The strike price of £91/MWh for England/Wales fixed projects was significantly below the administrative strike price of £113/MWh that so many reported on last year, but was always the upper limit.
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- Solar is and will be the main story in the energy sector for years to come ☀️ It is the dominant driver of change in global electricity generation ⚡️ Growth in Q1-Q3 2025 was much larger than from any other source. Wind was the only other source with a significant increase.
- Read my latest Q3 global power report from early November here: ember-energy.org/latest-insig...
- The EV transition in action 🚗🔋 In 2019, only a handful of countries had more than 10% EV sales share Fast forward to 2025 and the landscape has changed dramatically. China, the world's largest car market, crossed over 50% this year with many other markets growing rapidly.
- Affordable all day solar is here. Solar already produces affordable power during the day. Rapid battery cost declines now mean that a solar + battery system that can move around 50% of its output to other parts of the day only costs $76/MWh ☀️ $43 solar 🔋 $33 storage
- New @ember-energy.org analysis by my colleague @kostantsa.bsky.social out today: ember-energy.org/latest-insig...
- NEW DATA | Solar generation in 2025 has already exceeded the 2024 total as of September ☀️⚡️ A 31% increase in Q1-Q3 2025, has pushed solar beyond the full year output for 2024, with three months left in 2025.
- Today, we published our Q3 global power report which also found that 2025 is likely to be the first year since the Covid-19 pandemic without an increase in fossil generation bsky.app/profile/nico...
- NEW | No growth for fossil fuels in global electricity generation expected in 2025 🔥❌ Ember forecasts no increase in fossil generation as wind and solar are growing fast enough to meet all new electricity demand.
- Our latest power sector analysis out today shows that in the first three quarters of 2025, solar and wind exceeded the growth in electricity demand globally. Combined with an increase in nuclear generation and falls in hydro power, fossil generation saw a minor decline in Q1-Q3.
- The central player so far in 2025 is once again solar, dwarfing changes from other sources ☀️ The yoy increase of 498 TWh in Q1-Q3 was three times larger than the next biggest increase from wind. Solar's rise is in stark contrast to stagnating fossil generation.
- Read the full report out today: ember-energy.org/latest-insig...
- NEW data | Less than 50% of Australia's electricity generation came from fossil fuels in October 🇦🇺⚡️ This was the first month ever where renewables have overtaken fossil fuels in Australia's electricity mix. 10 years ago, in October 2015, fossil fuels made up 86%.
- Check out the latest data in our @ember_energy Electricity Data Explorer: ember-energy.org/data/electri...
- LATEST DATA | Strong solar additions and favourable hydro conditions in China pushed coal power down 5.4% in September compared to 2024 🇨🇳⚡️ Year-to-date, coal power remains down 1.4%.
- Another new record for batteries in California 🔋⚡️ Batteries met a record high 37.2% of load at 6:25pm yesterday, Oct 12. The share of load remained at >30% for two whole hours from 5:50 to 7:50 during peak demand and discharged late into the night, reducing gas and imports.
- We will see more records as we are now moving into the shoulder months where solar output remains high, but demand is lower than in summer months. The previous record for battery share of load was set in April.
- NEW | EU solar generation has already exceeded its 2024 total as of September ☀️🇪🇺 Solar is by far the fastest growing source of electricity in the EU, up 20% year-on-year.
- More data in our @ember-energy.org Electricity Data Explorer: ember-energy.org/data/electri...
- NEW DATA | For the first time ever, wind and solar produced more than 50% of the UK's electricity ☀️🍃🇬🇧 🏆 In September, wind and solar generation reached a share of 50.4% Both wind and solar generation also reached new absolute output records for the month of September: Wind: 7.7 TWh Solar: 1.7 TWh
- You can get the latest data in our @ember-energy.org Electricity Data Explorer ember-energy.org/data/electri...
- NEW @ember-energy.org report out today | Renewables now produce more electricity than coal worldwide ⚡️ Renewables produced 5,072 TWh (34.4% share) in the first half of 2025 overtaking coal for the first time which stood at 4,896 TWh (33.1%.)
- Read the full report here: ember-energy.org/latest-insig...
- More than 5% isn't possible...more than 10% isn't possible... Solar was already at 8.8% of GLOBAL electricity generation in the first half of 2025, more than doubling since 2021 (3.8%). ☀️ I guess 30% is the new limit?? 🇭🇺Hungary: 29.7% 🇬🇷Greece: 26.3% 🇳🇱Netherlands: 25.7%
