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ENERGY: Japan’s struggle to drive down renewables costs
- Date: 20-08-20
- Category: ENERGY
- Source: PV Magazine
A nation famous for high electricity prices has seen power costs fall 15% this year, according to analyst Wood Mackenzie, a figure which will help attract $100 billion of solar and wind investment to 2030. Renewables will have to work even harder, however, to displace fossil fuels in hydrogen production.
View full storyENERGY: Renewable Energy Can Support Resilient and Equitable Recovery
- Date: 20-04-20
- Category: ENERGY
- Source: Irena
IRENA’s first Global Renewables Outlook shows decarbonisation of the energy system supports short-term recovery while creating resilient and inclusive economies and societies.
View full storyENERGY: World Energy Outlook 2019 highlights deep disparities in the global energy system
- Date: 13-11-19
- Category: ENERGY
- Source: IEA
“lack of electricity access for 850 million people around the world” should play to fuel cells’ strengths – solar PV/wind turbine feeding an electrolyser to make hydrogen (or just charge batteries from the solar, or a mixture of both for different markets)
View full storyENERGY: Clean energy company to raise £52 million
- Date: 03-10-19
- Category: ENERGY
- Source: Insider Media
Listed energy storage and clean fuel company ITM Power has revealed plans to raise £52m. This includes an investment from industrial gases and engineering specialist Linde, which will also enter into a joint venture with the Sheffield-headquartered company.
View full storyENERGY: SA's CONCO wins eSwatini solar power project
- Date: 28-06-19
- Category: ENERGY
- Source: Eye Witness News
MBABANE - Consolidated Infrastructure Group (CONCO) has won a $16 million contract to build a 10 megawatt solar project in eSwatini, the firm said late on Thursday.
View full storyENERGY: BP: world on unsustainable path; growing divergence between demands for climate change action and pace of progress
- Date: 12-06-19
- Category: ENERGY
- Source: Green Car Congress
BP released the 68th annual edition of the BP Statistical Review of World Energy (BP Stats Review), a comprehensive collection and analysis of global energy data. This year’s edition highlights the growing divergence between demands for action on climate change and the actual pace of progress on reducing carbon emissions.
View full storyENERGY: EIA projects decline in transportation sector energy consumption through 2037 despite increase in VMT, followed by increase
- Date: 28-01-19
- Category: ENERGY
- Source: Green Car Congress
EIA’s Annual Energy Outlook 2019 projects continued robust growth in US energy production, emergence of the United States as an energy exporter, and a cleaner S electric power generation mix. For the Transportation sector, EIA projects that energy consumption will decline between 2019 and 2037 (in the Reference case) because increases in fuel economy more than offset growth in vehicle miles traveled (VMT).
View full storyENERGY: Norway plugs away at phasing out fossil fuels
- Date: 07-01-19
- Category: ENERGY
- Source: Auto News
Almost a third of new cars sold in Norway last year were fully electric, a new world record as the country strives to end sales of fossil-fueled vehicles by 2025.
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