How do renewable energies limit the current global energy crisis?

The wind and solar industries have experienced a real boom in recent years around the world!

The war in the Middle East has generated a real global energy crisis, however, this is considerably mitigated by the exponential development of renewable energies.

Significant Savings!

According to a study conducted by the think tank Ember, which aims for a future global energy system that is cheaper, cleaner, more efficient, and safer, solar and wind energies experienced a record expansion in the world in 2025, representing the equivalent of more than one-seventh of global gas production.

If this might seem relatively small, their impact is nonetheless visible. Since the start of the conflict in the Middle East on February 28th, existing wind and solar capacities around the world have helped to mitigate the impact of the energy crisis by decoupling.

In fact, they have avoided the production of about 330 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity from gas, which also represents a potential saving of over 40 billion dollars.

In other words, the impact of the conflict in the Middle East could have been even greater without renewable energies, especially as oil and gas prices have surged in recent weeks, without a bad pun.

Thus, at current market prices, the savings on gas imports would amount to approximately 138 billion dollars. As highlighted by Kingmill Bond, an analyst at Ember: “Renewable energies offer importers a real path to energy security, a less costly solution, faster to deploy, and without geopolitical constraints.”

The Rise of Solar and Wind

This energy crisis resulting from the conflict in the Middle East reminds us how important it is to reduce our energy dependence on oil and gas, which is well underway according to Ember experts. Indeed, the scale and speed of solar energy development are unprecedented in the energy sector in recent years.

According to Ember, 814 gigawatts of solar and wind capacity were added worldwide in 2025. Thus, the total combined global capacity of these two renewable energies now exceeds 4 terawatts, with solar energy representing the largest share of these capacities with 2.9 terawatts by the end of 2025.

On the other hand, wind energy is also significant, representing a global capacity of around 1.3 terawatts by the end of 2025. However, there is still a long way to go before these renewable energies become the majority on a global scale.

In 2024, according to the Energy Institute, global commercial energy production was distributed as 33.6% oil, 27.9% coal, 25.1% natural gas, 5.2% nuclear, and 8.2% renewables, including 2.7% hydroelectric, and 5.5% wind, solar, biomass, geothermal, and biofuels combined.

As a result, while we are indeed on the right track, especially in observing the evolution of solar and wind energy in recent years, radical change is not yet imminent. While solar energy does indeed alleviate the current energy crisis, it remains an urgent issue with all the economic consequences involved.

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Without renewable energies, the global energy crisis would be much more significant reveals a study, Geo and AFP, 03/26/2026