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Energy news as COP23 is taking place in Germany

Edouard Stenger

To put this in perspective, Kees van der Leun tweeted last month, ” Annual global solar PV market hit the 1 GW mark in 2004. This is a game-changing move as peaker plants and even baseload ones will become more and more irrelevant, decreasing carbon emissions. In 2016, the world added 138.5 GW of renewables to the grids.