India, April 15 -- Global power generation from fossil fuels fell in the first month (March) after the Strait of Hormuz closure as the US-Israel attack on Iran escalated into a regional conflict and disrupted critical supply chains, said a Helsinki-based nonprofit think tank Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) analysis released on Wednesday. Increases in solar and wind power rather than coal offset the fall in gas-fired generation.

In the US and India, solar power growth was the single largest driver of the fall in fossil power generation. Improved operation of nuclear and hydropower plants was the main driver in South Africa and Turkey. In the Netherlands and Germany, growth in wind power generation made the largest contr...