Grid & Degrees
Overview · data to July 2026

Two races, one outcome

The world is electrifying its power, its cars and its buildings faster than most forecasts allowed for. It is also warming faster than any period in the instrumental record. This site tracks both, country by country, with every figure dated and sourced.

The crossover

In 2025, renewables generated more of the world's electricity than coal for the first time in over a century. Wind and solar alone met 99% of the year's growth in demand, which is why fossil generation stayed flat while the world used more power than ever.

Where the transition actually stands

Three sectors decide whether electrification adds up: the grid that supplies the electricity, the vehicles that switch onto it, and the buildings that are hardest to move.

On the numbers. Every figure on this site carries a source and a vintage. Figures marked with a dotted underline are compiled, normalised or derived rather than quoted from a publication's headline — hover them to see why. Where a dataset has been discontinued, such as NOAA's billion-dollar disaster series, the site says so instead of quietly extrapolating. See Data & method.

Live: the GB grid

The one number on this site that changes every half hour. Great Britain only — shown because it is the clearest illustration of what a decarbonising grid actually looks like hour to hour.

In the news

Headlines from third-party publishers, linked in full. Nothing here feeds the figures above — it is context, not source data. All headlines.