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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.

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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 country, still not over its financial woes following its Euro-Zone crisis in 2015, has been hit with severe floods and wildfires this year.

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Ontario could easily phase out polluting fossil gas – if it wanted to

Enviromental Defense

Here are the measures that would lead Ontario to a fully clean electricity grid: Increase Wind and Solar Power. Ontario has a large potential supply of wind and solar energy that could be developed to help phase-out dirty gas plants. The costs of wind and solar power have been dropping like a stone.

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PA Ranks 49th In US For Renewable Energy Growth; Delays In Adding Clean Energy To The Grid Will Cost Electric Ratepayers Billions

PA Environment Daily

The State of Renewable Energy 2025 documents the growth of six key clean energy technologies across the United States over the past decade and ranks states accordingly for solar power, wind power, battery storage, energy efficiency, electric vehicles and electric vehicle charging stations.

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One Path to Better Affordability is Climate Change Action – Really

Enviromental Defense

Alberta: Speak Up For a SAFE Climate: Take Action Here How Climate Action Makes Life More Affordable Renewable energy, including solar and wind power, is much cheaper and less polluting than burning fossil fuels such as natural gas, oil and coal. The research was published in Nature in April of this year. Shifting that $4.8

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Analysis: Bolstering Southeast Asia’s clean energy transition

A Greener Life

Indonesia This pier on Indonesia’s Karampuang Island, seen in December 2022, is lighted with electricity from solar power. A US grant announced in May will support a PT Medco Power Indonesia study needed to develop a wind power plant on Indonesia’s island of Sumbawa. © Dita Alangkara/AP. Japan and other partners.

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Analysis: Can Inner Mongolia reach peak carbon this decade?

A Greener Life

It also missed energy consumption and intensity targets in the 13th Five Year Plan (2015-2020). 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. Photo credit: Jiang Yifan.