South Korea's renewable energy capacity overtakes coal for first time

South Korea's installed renewable-energy capacity reached 41,040 MW on October 21, surpassing the country's 40,757 MW of coal-fired capacity for the first time. Renewables now account for 25.4% of installed generation capacity and could overtake liquefied natural gas within two to three years if current growth trends continue.

These figures refer to installed capacity rather than electricity generation, which differs from actual power output.