See more from Canary Media’s “Chart of the Week” column. Solar and wind developers around the world just keep getting defeated — by themselves. Yet again, a record amount of new solar and wind capacity came online globally last year, according to the latest numbers by think tank Ember. The jump was sizable: Additions exceeded the prior year’s by 17%. Not to pit friends against each other, but solar is the clear front-runner when it comes to renewables deployment.