The world built more solar and wind than ever in 2025

Published on March 27, 2026

See more from Canary Media’s ​“Chart of the Week” column . Solar and wind developers around the world just keep getting defeated — by themselves. Yet again, a record amount of new solar and wind capacity came online globally last year, according to the latest numbers by think tank Ember. The jump was sizable:…

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