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Comment by philipkglass

Global nuclear generation increased by 95 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2019, relative to 2018:

https://www.world-nuclear.org/our-association/publications/g...

Global wind and solar generation increased by 265 TWh in 2019:

https://www.rechargenews.com/wind/global-wind-and-solar-ener...

Nuclear was still well ahead in 2019 with 2657 TWh vs. 2103 TWh for wind and solar (699 solar, 1404 wind). But if these relative growth rates continue it will take only 3.3 years for solar + wind generation to eclipse nuclear generation globally ((2657 - 2103) / 170).

Hydropower is still the far-and-away leader of non-fossil electricity generation at 4306 TWh in 2019 (106 TWh growth over 2018):

https://www.hydropower.org/news/invest-in-hydropower-to-tack...

But it's a lot harder to build new hydro projects than new wind or solar projects.

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