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2024 Year in Review: Clean Energy Progress Steeped in Solar and Storage

Union of Concerned Scientists

Wind While the amount of new wind turbine capacity installed looked to be the lowest in at least six years, wind power continued to set records for generation in different regions of the country. Cumulative US utility-scale battery power capacity.

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Gov. Newsom Goes to China to Talk Climate

Legal Planet

That’s why Newsom’s expected to visit a Tesla factory that has pumped out 2 million cars since opening in 2019. Newsom also stops in Hong Kong, the first city in Asia to require businesses to disclose their carbon emissions — similar to SB 253 that he signed this month covering businesses in California.

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Analysis: Bolstering Southeast Asia’s clean energy transition

A Greener Life

So after returning home, he launched Dat Bike in 2019. The company sells electric motorbikes in Danang, Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City and is exploring the reuse of electric batteries and how to power its factory with green energy. Above, a VinFast vehicle charges in Quang Ninh, Vietnam, in 2021. © NamLong Nguyen / Shutterstock.com.

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Analysis: Is hydrogen the new oil?

A Greener Life

In 2019, Kawasaki Heavy Industries launched the Suiso Frontier, the world’s first ship designed to carry liquefied hydrogen. There is talk that a global “hydrogen economy” can emerge to save the climate from carbon emissions. The country has the world’s largest network of hydrogen filling stations.

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Analysis: Can Inner Mongolia reach peak carbon this decade?

A Greener Life

between 2016 and 2019, and total energy consumption also rose far more than permitted by the 13th FYP targets. Yang Fuqiang thinks it is unreasonable to make energy-producing provinces such as Inner Mongolia solely responsible for cutting carbon emissions. If it benefits, it has to help cut carbon.

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Floating Foundations: The Future of Offshore Wind

The Energy Law

With recent increased investments in wind power, the development of floating offshore wind farms presents the potential to access areas previously unavailable. This allows the wind turbines to operate in deeper waters. [1] This design is utilized at the world’s first commercial floating wind farm, Hywind Scotland.

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Floating Foundations: The Future of Offshore Wind

The Energy Law

With recent increased investments in wind power, the development of floating offshore wind farms presents the potential to access areas previously unavailable. This allows the wind turbines to operate in deeper waters. [1]. This design is utilized at the world’s first commercial floating wind farm, Hywind Scotland.