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random_shitter t1_j234jom wrote

Reply to comment by Bugfrag in Russians did such a good job promoting renewable energy and electric vehicles this year. by darth_nadoma

Sigh.

>In December, the International Energy Agency published two important reports that point to the future of renewable energy.

>First, the IEA revised its projection of renewable energy growth upward by 30%.

https://www.civilbeat.org/2022/12/small-islands-and-putins-war-are-accelerating-the-global-shift-to-clean-energy-in-2023/

You're a bad faith arguer. You may reply but I will stop wasting time on your nonsense.

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Bugfrag t1_j236zyt wrote

A) Things could have been simpler if you simply put the link to the IEA report. Why do you expect anybody to have stumbled into the Honolulu Civilbeat?

B) Clearly you didn't look at my post which referred to global investment. You would have noticed that the units are in dollars.

Your cited resource refers to global capacity, units in GW. These are not equivalent comparisons.

Note that both of my sources (including report from IEA that I searched myself because you didn't provide any) report things in $.

Did you even check out the two references I posted?

In conclusion:

  • you made a claim without support
  • when pushed for data, presented items that's not even in the same unit.
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Bugfrag t1_j238s4x wrote

And lastly, after reading the methodology to get that 30% number:

The IEA are changing the forecast model for cumulative capacity of 2022-2027 time frame. Their earlier forecast was off. (Read page 17-18 on the IEA report, but it's in the secondary Civilbeat digest)

It's definitely not a year-to-year change

Actual change in capacity is linear (see page 21 on the IEA report, not on Civil beat)

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