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Greece increases its renewable energy targets

A Greener Life

By Anders Lorenzen Having been at the forefront of dealing with climate impacts in recent years, Greece has shored up its renewable energy targets. Greece, which has recently battled one climate-fuelled wildfire after the other, has ramped up its renewable energy targets.

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This Leap Year, Some Clean Energy Leaps to Watch For

Union of Concerned Scientists

When it comes to the transition to clean energy, 2023 was quite a year for progress: record-breaking amounts of solar installed in the United States, a solid drop in carbon emissions from the US power sector, more than one million electric vehicles sold in the country for the first time, “breakneck” growth in renewable energy globally, and more.

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Fossil Fuels vs. Renewables: A Price on Reliability?

Union of Concerned Scientists

This system worked so well in the past that gas plants totally dominated new power plant investment from 1990 through 2014. In much of the country, electric power plant choices are now made via competitive markets. At the same time, wind farms produced well above expectations. It’s a vicious feedback loop.

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Analysis: Can Inner Mongolia reach peak carbon this decade?

A Greener Life

billion) over the three years 2014–16. But as far as the Inner Mongolian government is concerned, its coal power , coal-chemical, steel and aluminium plants have been built in response to national policies. There is huge potential for developing renewable energy in Inner Mongolia, which could be used to power other industries.

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U.S. EIA: U.S. Electricity Generation From Natural Gas Now Falling Like Coal In Face Of New, Cheaper Renewable Power Plants

PA Environment Daily

Energy Information Administration reported-- in our January Short-Term Energy Outlook , we forecast that rising electricity generation from renewable energy resources such as solar and wind will reduce generation from fossil fuel-fired power plants over the next two years. On January 18, the U.S.

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Four cheap solutions to climate change

Edouard Stenger

Years ago the Big Apple made headlines for having its famous Empire State Building undergo a $20 million retrofit that enabled a 40 percent energy consumption reduction. The average American uses 10 percent less energy than in 2007, and the nation’s energy consumption per unit of GDP has fallen by 14 percent. — .

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Ways of Price Making, Inflation, and Energy Price Shocks

Legal Planet

In the early days of the current price shocks, fossil fuel boosters blamed clean energy and climate policy. One columnist from the Wall Street Journal asserted just before the Glasgow climate summit that it was time to ask “ some big boy questions ” about our rush to renewable energy.