It took 8 years for solar to go from 100 to 1,000 terawatt hours of power - and then just 3 years to pass 2,000

Global electricity generation per source, by years since passing 100 TWh*

*Data only shown until the point where each source generated just over 2,000 TWh
Wind and solar generation data from Ember's yearly electricity data. Nuclear, gas, coal and hydro data from Pinto et al. (2023)
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