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According to a new study, fossil fuels are “beginning of the end” as global wind and solar energy hit record levels in 2022.< /p> 
The boom in wind and solar energy has driven the amount of electricity generated from renewable energy to an all-time high last year, according to a new analysis.
As CNN notes, according to the report , published on Wednesday by energy think tank Ember, the use of coal, oil and gas for power generation is expected to decline in 2023. This will be the first year that there will be a reduction in the use of fossil fuels for electricity generation, barring a global recession or pandemic.
The levels of pollution of the planet from heating from fossil fuel generation may have already reached their peak, according to the report.
The results show that the world has reached the “beginning of the end of the fossil energy era,” the host said in a statement. author of the study Malgorzata Viatros-Motyka. “We are entering a clean energy era,” she added.
The Ember think tank analyzed data from 78 countries, which account for 93% of global electricity demand, for the fourth edition of its annual Global Power Survey.
According to the report, almost 40% of the world's electricity is currently generated by renewables and nuclear power, a new record.
The share of wind and solar energy in global energy production in 2022 was 12%, compared with 10% a year earlier, according to CNN.
Solar turned out to be the fastest growing source of electricity in 2022 for the eighteenth year in a row, up 24% from the previous year. Wind power generation increased by 17%.
Ember Center analysts predict that clean energy will be able to meet the overall growth in electricity demand in 2023.
However, fossil fuels still dominate, CNN notes. Coal power remained the single largest source of electricity worldwide, accounting for 36% of global electricity generation in 2022. According to Viatros-Motyka, this is due to the fact that the overall demand for electricity has grown, and not all of it has been met by renewable sources.
But Ember predicts that 2022 will mark the “peak” level of the planet’s pollution as a result of electricity generation and will be the last year of growth in fossil fuel use.
The report predicts a slight decline in fossil fuel generation of 0.3% in 2023, with a larger drop in subsequent years as wind power and sun.
“For the wind and the sun, conditions are created for a rapid rise to the top,” says Malgorzata Viatros-Motyka. “A new era of reducing fossil fuel emissions means that coal power will be phased out and the end of gas power growth is just around the corner. Change is happening fast. However, it all depends on the actions now being taken by governments, businesses and citizens to put the world on a clean energy path by 2040.”