Since President Trump has been in office, he has signed executive orders aimed at boosting coal production and cutting off grants for solar and wind projects. Perhaps he wants every child to have a lump of coal in their Christmas stocking. In the rest of the world, change is happening.

In an article by Susanna Twidale of Reuters, renewable energy sources generated more electricity than coal globally for the first time in the first half of 2025. The growth of large solar farms in India and China help make the transition according to the think tank Ember.

Renewable, such as wind and sold supplied 5,072 terawatts hours (TWh) while coal supplied 4,896.

Global electricity demand increased 2.6%.

China, the world’ s largest electricity consumer, reduced fossil fuels by 2% and increased its solar and wind production by 43% and 16% respectively. (one of the largest solar farms is in Tibet covering 610 square kilometers – the size of Chicago)

India increased the use of power by solar and wind by 29% and 31% respectively, while coal and oil fell by 3.1%.

In the US coal generation rose by 17%.

Linking to dividend paying stocks, solar and wind are essentially utilities which means there is a high capital cost, but then long-term investment returns (personally my solar panels pay for the taxes and water consumption of the house). In all places in the world, the sun shines on a daily basis, some more than others, it makes sense to capitalize of the sun rays. As more and more solar panels go up, the cost to put them up goes down and the return goes up and that is a good investment. It would be same idea for computers or laptops.

There are more questions than answers, till the next time – to raising questions.