全球可再生能源消费正在飙升

可再生能源消费量正以惊人的速度增长

尽管全球主要能源消费出现了自二战以来的最大降幅，但2020年全球可再生能源消费增长了9.7%

据油价网8月27日报道，疫情大流行初期，世界能源消耗大幅下降。除了一种能源以外，所有主要能源生产都出现了下降。尽管全球主要能源消费出现二战以来最大降幅，但2020年全球可再生能源消费增长9.7%。考虑到疫情对能源总需求的重大影响，这一数字令人瞩目。

2021年，所有类别的能源趋势都出现反弹。但可再生能源再次领先。从2020年到2021年，全球可再生能源消费增长了15%。

过去十年来，全球可再生能源消费以指数级增长，平均年增长率为12.6%。可再生能源是全球唯一在今年和过去十年以两位数增长的能源。

2010年，全世界消耗了10.5艾焦耳的可再生能源。2021年，达到了39.9艾焦耳。2021年可再生能源消费增长5.1艾焦耳，创下一年来的新高，创下可再生能源消费历史新高。

《评论》报告称，水力发电作为一个单独的类别，在全球范围内的增长速度远远低于太阳能等现代可再生能源。2021年全球水电消耗为40.3艾焦耳，但仍高于风能和太阳能。然而，水电10年平均年增长率要低得多，只有1.5%。

2021，在全球范围内，水力发电占世界主要能源消耗的6.8%，略高于风能和太阳能等现代可再生能源的6.7%。但现代可再生能源在今年的总消耗量将最终超过水力发电。

在可再生能源类别中，风能（49.0%）和太阳能（27.2%）占了大部分的消费。虽然风能消耗保持着相对于太阳能消耗的健康领先，但十年来太阳能消耗的增长速度继续是风能增长速度的两倍多。

累计来看，2021年前10大消费国占全球可再生能源消费量的75.9%。

但这是世界面临的挑战。在全球可再生能源消耗增加5.1艾焦耳的背景情况下，2021年全球能源需求增加了31.3艾焦耳——是原来的6倍多。根据目前的趋势，可再生能源的增长需要10年以上才能赶上全球能源需求的增长。

郝芬 译自 美国油价网

原文如下：

Global Renewable Energy Consumption Is Soaring

●Renewable energy consumption is growing at a blistering rate.

●Despite the largest decline in primary global energy consumption since World War II, global renewable energy consumption grew by 9.7% in 2020.

During the early stages on the Covid-19 pandemic, the world’s energy consumption plunged. All major categories of energy production declined, except for one. Despite the largest decline in primary global energy consumption since World War II, global renewable energy consumption grew by 9.7% in 2020. That was remarkable given how significantly the pandemic impacted total energy demand.

Energy trends in all categories bounced back in 2021. But renewables once again led the pack. From 2020 to 2021, global renewable energy consumption grew by a whopping 15%.

Over the past decade, global renewable energy consumption has grown exponentially, at an average annual rate of 12.6%. Renewables were the only category of energy that grew globally at double digits over the year and the past decade.

For perspective, in 2010 the world consumed 10.5 exajoules of renewable energy. In 2021, that had reached 39.9 exajoules. The 5.1 exajoule increase in renewable consumption in 2021 was a record increase for one year, and it set a new all-time high for renewable energy consumption in a year.

Hydroelectricity, which the Review reports as a separate category is growing globally at a much slower rate than modern renewables like solar power. Global hydropower consumption in 2021 was 40.3 exajoules, which is still more than wind and solar. However, the 10-year average annual growth rate for hydropower is much lower at only 1.5%.

Globally, hydroelectricity represented 6.8% of the world’s primary energy consumption in 2021, just barely ahead of the 6.7% for modern renewables like wind and solar power. But modern renewables will finally overtake hydroelectricity in overall consumption this year.

Within the Renewable Power category, wind (49.0%) and solar (27.2%) accounted for most of the consumption. Although wind consumption maintains a healthy lead over solar consumption, the ten-year growth rate in solar power consumption continues to be more than double the growth rate of wind power.

Cumulatively, the Top 10 consumers accounted for 75.9% of the world’s renewable energy consumption in 2021.

But here is the challenge the world faces. Against the backdrop of the 5.1 exajoule global increase in renewable energy consumption, global energy demand increased by 31.3 exajoules in 2021 — over six times as much. based on the current trends it would take over a decade before renewable growth can match global energy demand growth.