A solar tower and panels operate at Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park as Dubai, United Arab Emirates hosts the COP28 U.N. Climate Summit, Monday, December 11, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The world's renewable energy grew at its fastest rate in the past 25 years in 2023, the International Energy Agency reported Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024. (Photo by Joshua A. Bickel/AP Photo)





Aerial view of Cerro Dominador, the first thermosolar power plant in Latin America, in Antofagasta, Chile, taken on November 23, 2023. In the Atacama Desert, the driest desert in the world, located in northern Chile, a 240-meter solar thermal tower surrounded by mirrors is operating as a symbol of the biggest energy revolution against climate change in Latin America. The imposing construction of Cerro Dominador, which Chileans compare to the tower of Sauron from “The Lord of the Rings”, is one of the pillars of the ambitious green energy program that aims to completely replace fossil fuels by 2040. (Photo by Pablo Cozzaglio/AFP Photo)





People skating on ice at the illuminated former coking plant Zollverein in Essen, Germany, Monday, December 11, 2023. The World Heritage site once was the hottest place in town, where coke was made at 1,000 degrees Celsius, now the industrial landmark becomes an ice rink every winter for the citizens. (Photo by Martin Meissner/AP Photo)





This aerial photo taken on July 19, 2021 shows electrical workers in a boat as they check solar panels at a photovoltaic power station built in a fishpond in Haian in China's eastern Jiangsu province. (Photo by AFP Photo/China Stringer Network)





A view of the Kalyon Karapinar SPP Central Control Building, which instantly monitors the solar electricity generation data of more than 3.5 million panels in Karapinar district of Konya, Turkiye on March 28, 2024. Attracting attention with its futuristic design, the building is equipped with many technical infrastructure and digital tools for the operation of the power plant. The outer surface of the building is inspired by 4 different solar panel designs, and the cover materials prevent the interior of the building from overheating. (Photo by Mustafa Ciftci/Anadolu via Getty Images)





A drone view shows Mogden sewage treatment works, the third largest in the UK and owned by Thames Water, in west London, Britain, on April 1, 2024. (Photo by Toby Melville/Reuters)





In this aerial view the Boxberg coal-fired power plant stands behind the newly inaugurated PV-Park Boxberg solar energy park on April 30, 2024 in Nochten, Germany. LEAG, the energy company that owns both, is building what it claims will be Germany's biggest concentration of green energy production, with solar energy parks and wind farms that will have a capacity of seven gigawatts by 2030 under the so-called GigawattFactory project. The Boxberg solar park stands on recultivated land of a former open-pit coal mine. The region of southern Brandenburg and northern Saxony has long been heavily dependent on coal. Germany is seeking to shutter its coal-fired energy production by 2038. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)





A view of lignite coal-powered Belchatow Power station as smoke and steam rises from the cooling towers in Rogowiec, Poland on November 30, 2023. The 5,298MW Belchatow power plant is the biggest coal-fired power plant in Europe. (Photo by Omar Marques/Anadolu via Getty Images)





Smoke rises from the Chemnitz thermal power station in the second decade of January 2024 in Saxony, east Germany, which is about to be shut down. The 302m-high chimney, painted by the French artist Daniel Buren, will be preserved. (Photo by Hendrik Schmidt/Avalon)





Fog floats over a wind energy plant near Stetten, some 20 kilometres north of Kaiserslautern, Germany, as the sun rises on Tuesday, March 19, 2024. (Photo by Michael Probst/AP Photo)





Aerial view of the Oberon Solar O&M farm on March 24, 2024 in Ector County, Texas. In 2023, Texas led the nation in solar installations on its power grid, surpassing California for its second consecutive year. The Lone Star state produced more than 6,500 megawatts of solar generation according to an analysis by Wood Mackenzie's yearly Solar Market report. In the fourth quarter of 2023, reports by the Solar Energy Industries Association revealed Texas to have invested more than $27 billion in solar energy. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images)





Staff from a power supply company are overhauling and maintaining photovoltaic equipment at the “fishery-solar hybrid project” photovoltaic power plant in Taizhou, Jiangsu Province, China, on March 29, 2024. (Photo by Costfoto/NurPhoto/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A picture taken on May 9, 2011 in Les Mees, southern France shows solar panels. France on October 13, 2011 launched its largest-ever solar energy farm, with an array of panels spread over about 200 hectares (500 acres) in the mountainous southern Alpes-de-Haute-Provence region. With a production capacity of 90 megawatts, the vast photovoltaic park features nearly 113,000 solar panels and was built at a cost of 110 million euros ($137 million). (Photo by Boris Horvat/AFP Photo via Getty Images)





Smoke and steam billow from Belchatow Power Station, Europe's largest coal-fired power plant powered by lignite, operated by Polish utility PGE, in Rogowiec, Poland on November 22, 2023. (Photo by Kacper Pempel/Reuters)





An aerial picture taken on January 9, 2024 shows irrigated circular fields in the desert during the 4th stage of the Dakar rally between Al Salamiya and Al Hofuf. (Photo by Patrick Hertzog/AFP Photo)