{"id":474452,"date":"2026-05-08T08:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T08:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/474452\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T08:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T08:18:09","slug":"what-went-right-this-week-the-good-news-that-matters-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/474452\/","title":{"rendered":"What went right this week: the good news that matters"},"content":{"rendered":"

The world \u2018entered the age of electricity\u2019 <\/p>\n

Fossil fuels are losing their grip on the global energy market as renewables provide a greater share of power.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That\u2019s according to a global energy review<\/a> by the International Energy Agency (IEA), which declared that \u201cthe world has entered the age of electricity\u201d, with many economies now electrifying at pace.<\/p>\n

Overall demand for energy continued to rise in 2025, the report found, with a quarter of new demand met by solar \u2013 the first time that a renewable source met the largest share of demand growth.<\/p>\n

The IEA also highlighted the growing role of batteries in electricity grids. Battery storage, it said, was the fastest-growing power sector technology in 2025, a trend that\u2019s likely to accelerate.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t all good news, however. Demand for oil, gas and coal also grew in 2025 (by 0.7%, 1% and 0.4% respectively), albeit at a slower rate than in 2024. The rollout of electric cars, sales of which surged by 20%, kept oil demand \u201cin check\u201d, the IEA said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Still, global energy related emissions still increased by 0.4% last year, when they needed to be rapidly falling. In one sign of hope, however, the IEA confirmed what other researchers had found: that China\u2019s emissions contracted<\/a> in 2025.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Image: Nikola Jonny Mirkovic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The world \u2018entered the age of electricity\u2019 Fossil fuels are losing their grip on the global energy market…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474453,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[275],"tags":[5194,18,4625,7520,2953,135,475,474,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-474452","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-alzheimers","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-electricity","11":"tag-energy","12":"tag-good-news","13":"tag-health","14":"tag-health-care","15":"tag-healthcare","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}