Solar to supply 50% of world's energy by 2035, industry entrepreneur says

Birch, the co-founder and CEO of solar solutions software company OpenSolar said, Solar power will supply around half of the world’s energy by 2035 at current growth rates, U.K.-based academic Andrew Crossland and entrepreneur Andrew Birch predict. It's a trend Birch believes Canada will also follow.

The audacious forecast, named the S-Curve, is much more ambitious than many other industry projections and represents the need for a major leap in solar adoption.

Our World in Data’s energy mix report, for example, says solar provided only two per cent of energy consumed globally in 2023, when adjusted to match the inefficiency of fossil fuels.