Solar Surpasses Nuclear – The S-Curve Was Right

April 2025 gave us three huge milestones in clean energy: ✅ Solar overtook nuclear globally — for the first time ever ✅ Solar generated 10% of all electricity worldwide ✅ Solar and wind supplied more than 25% of China’s electricity

That’s historic. But you wouldn’t know it from reading most UK media. Either they ignored it or continued peddling the same tired line: that solar is expensive, unreliable, and unrealistic. That simply isn’t true. Let’s get the facts straight: solar is now the lowest-cost electricity source in human history (IEA). That’s not just my opinion, it’s public data. Yet somehow, it’s still portrayed like a fragile ideal rather than the global unstoppable force it has become.

And with batteries and grid-forming technology combined with solar, we can improve the reliability and resilience of our grid - also at much lower cost than spinning wheels from burning expensive dirty fossil fuels.

The world spends over $13 trillion a year on energy. And now we can meet that need with solar, batteries, and electric vehicles, all of which are faster to deploy, cleaner to run, and cheaper to operate. Batteries have plummeted in cost from over $1,000 per kWh to around $50. EVs are already the lowest-cost cars coming out of China. And in Norway, where uptake leads the world, petrol sales are down two-thirds. That’s what happens when you offer people better tech.

This is the S-Curve playing out in real time. Solar has been growing at more than 25% per year. That’s exponential. It feels slow… until suddenly, it isn’t. By 2030, we hit the tipping point and then fossil fuel demand collapses. By 2035, solar will power half the world’s energy.

And yet…

• Pupils in UK classrooms are still being taught that solar is the most expensive energy source (I just read my daughter’s UK GCSE revision papers….Why are AQA figures so out of date?).

• The public are told their high energy bills are the fault of renewables, when every energy economist and DESNZ official knows full well it’s gas that sets the price in the UK.

• The media still treats nuclear as the ‘grown-up’ solution, despite it being the most expensive and slowest-to-build technology on the table.

  
  
  
  

Meanwhile, a British-led company is ready to connect 3.6GW of solar and storage in Morocco straight into the UK grid via Xlinks. It’s cleaner, faster and offers higher baseload uptime than nuclear….and it’s HALF the COST. Why isn’t that making headlines?

We don’t need to cover farmland in panels. I worked with Google to model it…there’s enough rooftop space in the UK to power the entire country’s electricity supply, with solar alone. We just need to do it.

This isn’t about sacrifice. It’s not about hardship. It’s about upgrading. Clean air, lower bills, warm homes and fast cars, all powered by sunshine.

We are not struggling with net zero. We’re accelerating towards it. This transition is not painful. It’s easy and fast.

Solar is already winning. Let’s start reporting it that way.

And let’s make sure Britain isn’t just watching it happen but leading the charge.