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By Anders Lorenzen Having been at the forefront of dealing with climate impacts in recent years, Greece has shored up its renewableenergy targets. Greece, which has recently battled one climate-fuelled wildfire after the other, has ramped up its renewableenergy targets.
By Shadia Haq Earth Day 2025 focuses on the theme Our Power, Our Planet and urges a global shift to renewableenergy. 2025 The theme “Our Power, Our Planet” calls for tripling renewableenergy by 2030. Person Tossing a Globe. 1990 Earth Day expanded globally to 141 countries.
Minnesotans are facing concurrent crises of climate change, high energy prices and inflation, and the inequitable public health impacts of fossil fuel air pollution. Renewableenergy will help with all of that—but we need a grid that is designed for wind and solar instead of having to rely on expensive coal and gas plants.
By Anders Lorenzen Analysis by WindEurope , Europe’s windpower industry group, reveals a record-breaking year for European windpower when it comes to investments in the industry as well as installing new capacity. gigawatts (GW) of new windpower capacity with 80% being onshore. Photo credit: WindEurope.
The elected board members who run these utilities did little or nothing about renewables until the past decade. During the 2010s, windpower went from 1% of generation to 20%. In 2019, the Utah State Legislature passed the Community RenewableEnergy Act (HB 411). That has changed quite quickly.
There’s good news in the recently released official data on electricity generation in the United States in 2022: renewableenergy has continued to grow, coal power has continued to drop, and renewables are now firmly ahead of coal for the first time ever. They offer a lot of good news about clean energy progress.
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In order to make their portfolio more sustainable and respond to lower fossil fuel demand, oil majors are increasingly snapping up renewableenergy projects as the pressure grows to take action on climate change. from 2020 to 2030. A significant portion of this will be fulfilled by renewablepower generation.
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And now in their latest green move, they’re branching out into energy as they’re to sell renewableenergy to households, starting at home in Sweden. Affordable renewable electricity. Building the biggest renewableenergy movement.
Along with interim goals and priorities for pollution reduction in environmental justice areas, the law provides authorization and resources for state agencies to enable the transition to clean, renewableenergy. CEJA also extends the state’s successful energy efficiency programs and expands the savings goals utilities must meet.
The North African country Morocco is positioning itself to become the leading country on the African continent for the deployment of renewableenergy. Against a backdrop of new solar and wind projects, the country has increased its renewableenergy target to 52% by 2030, 70% by 2040 and 80% by 2050.
While this is a significant improvement, DTE still falls short of the MI Healthy Climate Plan’s target for the state to be coal-free by 2030. DTE currently has 3,000 MW of existing and approved solar and wind resources.) DTE’s Monroe coal plant is the largest single emitter of carbon pollution in Michigan.
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Now that I have reached the extent of my white-water rafting knowledge, here is a recap of our very productive session: Electric vehicle directionality stalled but will return UCS co-sponsored Senator Nancy Skinner’s Senate Bill 233 (SB 233) which would have required all electric vehicles to be bidirectional by 2030.
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Croatia, the Balkan country probably most known for its beautiful Adriatic coastline, has been urged to fulfil its enormous renewableenergy potential. A report by Global Data, an analytical firm, has found that the country could ease its reliance on energy imports significantly, by expanding its renewableenergy industry.
The Hornsea 2 offshore wind farm. By Anders Lorenzen The UK government has said that the UK’s sixth renewableenergy auction has delivered a record 131 clean energy projects. Under current projections and with no change to the scale, the 2024 record auction would power 11 million British homes.
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Not so long ago solar photovoltaic and windpower were just accounting for less than ten percent of the global electricity production. But on this particular element of the energy transition, things are moving faster and faster. C, based on IEA scenarios.
Copenhagen is full of sustainability initiatives, such as a promising and exciting green hydrogen project close to Copenhagen Airport called H2RES developed by some of Denmark’s largest companies and their ‘energy island project’ North Sea WindPower Hub located offshore close to the Danish island of Bornholm.
Hydropower generation across California and the American West has declined in this extremely dry year, meaning that electricity providers will lean more heavily on natural gas, solar, and windpower. President Biden’s goal is to cut the country’s greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030, and to reach net zero emissions by 2050.
The Danish renewableenergy giant Orsted has announced that the world’s largest offshore wind farm, Hornsea 2, is now fully operational off the Yorkshire coast in the UK. The wind farm project, which has a generating capacity of 1.3 The UK is targeting at least 50 GW of offshore wind capacity by 2030.
India missed its target to install 175 GW of renewableenergy by 2022, and is now trying to make up for that by boosting solar, wind, nuclear, hydropower and bio-power to 500 GW by 2030. Overall, India is also looking to boost its share of non-fossil capacity, which can include big hydro and nuclear to 50% by 2030.
In order to reduce emissions, we must phase out fossil fuels—oil, coal and gas—and move towards renewableenergy and less plastic and petrochemical production since these products, so dangerous as ocean pollutants, are made from oil. Offshore Wind. Individual nations, like Vietnam, made new commitments as well.
With a view to traditional media outlets, the discourse is dominated by the Covid-19 crisis, and frequently disregards other themes, such as climate and energy policy. Opinions on that matter differ significantly, especially when it comes to nuclear energy and different sources of renewableenergy.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (left) visits a hybrid power plant where “green” hydrogen is made using windpower and fed into the gas grid. Germany is not doing all it can to cut back energy use and increase economic pressure on Russia, argues Arne Jungjohann. It seems likely Germany go with the 2030 coal phase-out.
On August 9, the Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority announced it would be committing to the purchase of windpower and the use of clean energy to support the production and operations of water services. PWSA holds the largest share at 30% of the total, underlining our strong commitment to sustainable energy practices. “It
A floating offshore wind farm is being installed in Scotland. The analysis predicts that by the end of 2030, floating wind capacity could reach 11 GW in the UK, 21 GW in Europe and 41 GW globally. Photo credit: Statkraft. By Anders Lorenzen. Globally 3,200 foundations could be installed by the end of the decade. .
By Anders Lorenzen If you ask the world’s key players in the global windpower industry, 2023 was a year to forget. Siemens Energy, the largest offshore wind turbine producer, expects a loss in 2024 of € 2 billion from its parent company Siemens Gamesa.
On Monday, July 27, the Sabin Center filed comments with the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) in support of the proposed Vineyard Windenergy facility offshore Massachusetts on behalf of the group Win with South Fork Wind (“Win with Wind”).
I came across several articles on my home country lately and thought it was the occasion to keep everyone updated on how the French energy transition is going on. First thing first, I am very disappointed that the Socialists running the country did so little on renewableenergy sources during their mandate. click to enlarge.
These would be astounding news if it were coupled with increased efforts in sufficiency, efficiency and conservation (cf How can we quickly slash energy consumption is a trillion-dollar question …) But back to our energy revolution. I wrote about it before, both solar photovoltaic and windpower are on exponential curves.
The province’s gas ramp-up is projected to increase electricity-sector emissions by over 400 per cent by 2030 and by almost 800 per cent by 2040. You can use fossil gas which is highly polluting, or you can use renewableenergy like wind and solar. There are two main ways to make hydrogen.
In response, the industry is seeing a varying degree of investments in renewableenergy and commitments to climate-related goals. As companies make this transition into renewableenergy, one sector picking up speed is windenergy. The windenergy sector is gaining global traction, as exemplified by U.K.
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In response, the industry is seeing a varying degree of investments in renewableenergy and commitments to climate-related goals. As companies make this transition into renewableenergy, one sector picking up speed is windenergy. The windenergy sector is gaining global traction, as exemplified by U.K.
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors’ move to ban utility-scale wind turbines and to impose severe restrictions on utility-scale solar in unincorporated areas of the county is not compatible with averting the worst impacts of climate change. Even the current system of California and U.S.
In light of this attrition, New York Governor Hochul announced in October a 10-Point Action Plan to affirm the State’s commitment to and provide clear benchmarks for renewableenergy development , including an expedited competitive solicitation process announced by New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) in November.
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