Edouard Stenger
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
Renewables now account for 44% of the EU electricity mix and wind power is now producing more electricity than natural gas. At the beginning of the year Spain, Germany and the Netherlands announced that they generated 50 % of their electricity from renewables in 2023. Please read their full report for more exciting news.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JUNE 12, 2023
This system worked so well in the past that gas plants totally dominated new power plant investment from 1990 through 2014. In much of the country, electric power plant choices are now made via competitive markets. At the same time, wind farms produced well above expectations. It’s a vicious feedback loop.
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A Greener Life
JULY 9, 2021
billion) over the three years 2014–16. But as far as the Inner Mongolian government is concerned, its coal power , coal-chemical, steel and aluminium plants have been built in response to national policies. There is huge potential for developing renewable energy in Inner Mongolia, which could be used to power other industries.
Edouard Stenger
SEPTEMBER 30, 2018
These days if you read renewable energy news, everything is shining for solar photovoltaic: it is fast becoming the cheapest energy source, technology is getting better every year and it is wildly successful from the US to Asia, from Europe to Africa. But that is another story altogether.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JANUARY 22, 2024
When it comes to the transition to clean energy, 2023 was quite a year for progress: record-breaking amounts of solar installed in the United States, a solid drop in carbon emissions from the US power sector, more than one million electric vehicles sold in the country for the first time, “breakneck” growth in renewable energy globally, and more.
Edouard Stenger
SEPTEMBER 27, 2017
Switching to renewables could enable a factor ten cut in emissions coming from electricity. — Solar and wind. According to a paper published by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in 2015, Puerto Rico has 840 megawatts of potential wind power and only 120 MW of installed capacity.
Legal Planet
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
In the early days of the current price shocks, fossil fuel boosters blamed clean energy and climate policy. One columnist from the Wall Street Journal asserted just before the Glasgow climate summit that it was time to ask “ some big boy questions ” about our rush to renewable energy.
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