Energy think tank Ember crunched the numbers for April 2026 and found a genuine milestone: wind and solar generated 531 terawatt-hours of electricity that month, about 54 more than gas — the first time the two renewables out-produced gas across the whole world.

It's a single month, but it marks a line crossed. After more than two decades of record-setting growth, clean power isn't the future of the grid anymore so much as its present.