{"id":12647,"date":"2017-05-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-23T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aequilibria.nooostaging.com\/electricity-production-from-coal-collapses-from-23-to-9-in-the-united-kingdom-worldwide-emission-are-still-constant-while-the-share-of-nuclear-is-failing-in-the-eu\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T12:46:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T10:46:25","slug":"electricity-production-from-coal-collapses-from-23-to-9-in-the-united-kingdom-worldwide-emission-are-still-constant-while-the-share-of-nuclear-is-failing-in-the-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aequilibria.com\/en\/electricity-production-from-coal-collapses-from-23-to-9-in-the-united-kingdom-worldwide-emission-are-still-constant-while-the-share-of-nuclear-is-failing-in-the-eu\/","title":{"rendered":"Electricity production from coal collapses from 23 to 9% in the United Kingdom. Worldwide emission are still constant, while the share of nuclear is failing in the EU."},"content":{"rendered":"

IEA (International Energy Agency) data<\/a> has been published on world-wide electricity production in 2016. With a 0.9% increase in global production compared to 2015, there has been an increase of 9.5% in renewables from solar, wind and geothermal and of 2.2% of hydroelectric. It has been recorded, on the contrary, a reduction in production from fossil fuels and nuclear power, of 0.2 and 0.1% respectively.<\/p>\n

Worldwide, the share of renewables goes from 21.6 to 22.4%, with higher growth rates in the US (pre-Trump administration, editor’s note), where the hydroelectric has increased by 3.2% and by 12.6% for the other renewables. It has to be highlighted, in addition, a relevant increase of production from renewable sources also in Asia, of 1.4% for hydroelectric and of 12.6% for the other renewables.<\/p>\n

In Europe, where the total share of renewables is already 30%, there was an increase only in the hydroelectric sector, of 1%, mainly due to increased rainfall in some countries. Europe is the only region with a 2.4% reduction in nuclear power, due to the gradual phasing out of the plants in Germany and to temporary stop in production in France, Czech Republic, Slovenia and Switzerland.<\/p>\n

Interesting to observe the reduction in coal use in UK, collapsed from 23 to 9%, mainly related to carbon pricing<\/em> policy, and, to a lesser extent, in the US, where it went from 34 to 31%.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, for the third consecutive year, global GHG emissions remain constant at 32.1 billion tons<\/a>, while world economy has grown by 3.1%.<\/p>\n

So, have we reached the peak of emissions? It is soon to say it with certainty, even if there are some positive signals in that direction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

IEA (International Energy Agency) data has been published on world-wide electricity production in 2016. With a 0.9% increase in global production compared to 2015, there has been an increase of 9.5% in renewables from solar, wind and geothermal and of 2.2% of hydroelectric. It has been recorded, on the contrary, a reduction in production from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12369,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aequilibria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aequilibria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aequilibria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aequilibria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aequilibria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.aequilibria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12649,"href":"https:\/\/www.aequilibria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12647\/revisions\/12649"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aequilibria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aequilibria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aequilibria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aequilibria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}