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

Union of Concerned Scientists

The latest data from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) suggests that solar large and small may have generated 27% more in 2024 than in 2023, and that solar might have accounted for 7% of US electricitymore than double its contribution in 2020. Cumulative US utility-scale battery power capacity.

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Greece increases its renewable energy targets

A Greener Life

The revised 2030 energy and climate plan, unveiled by the government, targets the expansion of wind and solar power. The previous plan released in 2019 had set out only a 66% share. The Mediterranean country aims for renewables to account for an 82% share of electricity production by 2030.

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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. © Dita Alangkara/AP. Japan and other partners.

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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. It could then explore local heating systems, using waste heat from factories and power plants rather than building new boilers. Inner Mongolia generated more wind energy than any other province in 2019.

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Analysis: Is hydrogen the new oil?

A Greener Life

The Tokyo Olympics will be powered by a fuel with ambition – hydrogen. The Olympic village will be powered by hydrogen made at a solar power plant in the exclusion zone created after the Fukushima nuclear accident a decade ago. The Olympic flame is already burning it. Neighbouring South Korea has similar plans.

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Analysis: Could electric vehicles feed China’s grid?

A Greener Life

A solar-powered charging station in Yibin, south-west China. Two-way charging could give vehicles like these the potential to stabilise power supplies by discharging stored electricity back to the grid. The French energy company EDF exhibited this bidirectional charging terminal for electric vehicles in 2019.

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Testimony before the United States House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce 2021 Texas Grid Failure

Environmental Progress

ERCOT also expected, during peak demand events in winter, to have power from wind represent about 27% of installed wind capacity. In its most severe appraisal of the loss of wind capacity, ERCOT expected 8% of wind power compared to capacity. Terrorism and the Electric Power Delivery System.

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