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2024 Year in Review: Clean Energy Progress Steeped in Solar and Storage

Union of Concerned Scientists

The end of every year is a great time for taking stock of what the year has broughtincluding in terms of clean energy in the power sector. Heres a taste, from US projects, technologies, electrons, and investment, to happenings in the world as a whole. Cumulative US utility-scale battery power capacity.

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COP30: Twelve environmental facts about Brazil in 2025

A Greener Life

2020 for example, the Amazon saw its highest deforestation rate in over a decade. However, the country is diversifying its energy mix, and solar and wind power are expanding rapidly. In 2024, Brazil’s installed capacity for wind power reached approximately 22.6 million hectares destroyed between 2001 and 2020.

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China Powers AI Boom with Undersea Data Centers

Scientific American

Shanghai Hailanyun Technology To grow its economy, China is betting big on artificial intelligence , cloud computing and other digital technology—and a big part of that bet involves rapidly building data centers to boost computing power. Shanghai Hailanyun Technology But Microsoft has reportedly shelved Project Natick.

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Earth Day 2025: Embracing renewable energy for our planet

A Greener Life

2020 Earth Day went digital due to Covid-19, reaching over 100 million online viewers. 2025 The theme “Our Power, Our Planet” calls for tripling renewable energy by 2030. Canadas Cleantech Expo Hosted by LumeSmart, this event in Toronto showcases green technology and youth-led innovation.

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The cost of clean energy technologies continues to decline

A Greener Life

By Anders Lorenzen Data released by BloombergNEF (BNEF), the clean energy analysts body owned by Bloomberg , have shown that despite the uncertainty, on a global level, the cost of clean energy technologies continues to decline. However, as wind turbine prices have decreased in China, they have increased elsewhere since 2020.

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U.S. Energy Industry Trends To Watch In A 2025 Trump Presidency

Legal Planet

fossil fuel production rose over the last four years, from 76 quads in 2020 to a record high of 86 quads in 2023, over ten times the amount of total renewable energy production, according to the U.S. Trump vociferously favors fossil fuels and has criticized renewables, especially wind power and electric vehicles.

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5 Powerful Facts for Global Wind Day

Union of Concerned Scientists

We at the Union of Concerned Scientists think a lot about wind power. In honor of Global Wind Day , here’s a roundup of what we’re seeing and what we’ve been thinking—five facts about wind energy to keep in mind as you celebrate, or at least make note, on June 15. Wind power is big, and getting bigger.