Renewable Energy

[00:00:00]By the end of 2025, renewables are set to overtake coal as the largest source of global electricity. There's like six or seven types of renewable energy and most people can name two, >> [music] >> solar and wind. So, let's run through that. Fun fact, enough sunlight hits the earth in just one hour to power the entire world for an entire year. Solar accounts for 75% of all new renewable energy added globally last year.

[00:00:26]In 2025, the world added 511 gigawatts of solar alone. It's the cheapest form of new electricity in most markets now, no subsidies needed. China's leading the charge with nearly [music] 390 gigawatts of solar installed in a single year. The downside is it only works when the sun's out, which is why battery storage is blowing up [music] right now. Then you got wind. Wind is kind of like the Kyrie to LeBron. There are 32,000 wind farms worldwide as of 2026 and Europe alone hosts almost 22,000 of them. China dominates at this as well with about 570 gigawatts of capacity. There's onshore and offshore wind, which is exactly what it sounds like. Offshore wind has great potential but is hard to build out, especially in the US. And nobody's talking about hydropower, which is unfortunate because it's the biggest renewable energy source on the planet by total capacity. About 1,289 gigawatts are installed worldwide, which is more [music] than wind or solar individually. It's incredibly powerful, though building new dams is tricky because it requires a lot of space and alters local ecosystems. Geothermal is underrated. You're pulling heat from the earth to generate power. It's like when your girlfriend sticks her cold feet on your body to warm up. It only accounts for about >> [music] >>.34% of the global energy right now.

[00:01:55]It's tiny but it's consistent. The problem is you got to have the right geology. You can't just drill down anywhere and try to hit a hot spot. To round out the team, we have wildcard technologies like biomass, which is burning organic matter for fuel, and tidal energy, which uses the motion of the ocean to spin turbines. These are still early, but have real potential, and nobody's really talking about them yet. So, that's the lineup. Solar and wind are sprinting ahead. Hydro has been here the whole time doing the heavy lifting, and geothermal, biomass, and tidal are in various stages of figuring it out. In 2025, global renewable capacity hit over 5,100 gigawatts, and that number's only going up.