That's an interesting statistic, but the topic of the article is electricity in the UK not energy use in the world. A more useful statistic would be this:
"The government’s official data has revealed that renewable energy made up 47% of the UK’s electricity generation in the first three months of the year, smashing the previous quarterly record of 39% set last year."[0]
It's true that doesn't include the energy used by gas heating systems or fuel used by vehicles, for example, but to bring those into consideration it would be helpful to know how quickly heating systems and vehicles are being replaced by electric equivalents (increasing the load on the grid, although per capita energy consumption in the UK has been decreasing for decades).
[0] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/jun/25/renewable-e...
https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2020/07/renewables-rea...
and here are the statistics to back that up https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.ph...
Electricity is only a subset of our energy usage (around 20%) and out of that wind and solar is only a small part. Hydro is much bigger.
How about cars? Most ICE engines are less than 40% efficient. If you charge an EV with renewables it will consume 2.5 times less primary energy. Renewables look small in primary energy comparisons because they are less wasteful.