Energy and Climate Law

MAY 12, 2020

Yesterday the European Commission published a new study on energy storage. The study re-affirms that energy storage is one of the most important bottlenecks in the European Union for the acceleration of growth of renewable energy in our energy systems. This blog entry takes a look at the main outcomes of the study, focussing on the regulatory and legal parts.

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Science Blogs

MAY 12, 2020

The 'Uplift of the Tibetan Plateau' Myth. 'The uplift of the Tibetan Plateau' is invoked to explain various phenomena, from monsoon dynamics to biodiversity evolution and everything in between. It's not accurate, finds a new paper. The orogeny of the Tibetan region (Tibet, The Himalaya and the Hengduan Mountains) dates back approximately 200 million years, long before the arrival of India, and was the product of earlier Gondwanan tectonic block collisions that produced a complex of mountain chai

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Vermont Law

MAY 11, 2020

By Brian Pattison. The largest growing source of energy generation in the world is currently renewable energy. [1]. An EIA report from January, 2019 forecasts that renewable energy will continue to increase at a sharp rate as coal-fired and nuclear generation decreases each year. [2]. Utility-scale solar is expected to grow by 10% in 2019 and an additional 17% in 2020. [3].

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