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By 2025 all new homes built in Tokyo must include solar panels 

A Greener Life

A solar power field in Kawasaki, near Tokyo. Last week, regulators in the local assembly of Tokyo , the capital of Japan , ruled that all new homes constructed by large-scale homebuilders after April 2025 must install solar panels to cut emissions. Poor solar uptake. Photo credit: Reuters / Toru Hanai.

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Bolivia has high solar power potential but faces challenges scaling up

A Greener Life

The new 100 MW Oruro solar plant is a boost to Bolivia’s energy transition, but there are obstacles to harnessing the radiation potential of its western highlands. Perched at 3,730 metres above sea level in the community of Ancotanga, the Oruro solar power plant is one of the flagship projects in Bolivia’s energy transition.

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Good News—and Bad—about Fossil Fuel Power Plants in 2023 

Union of Concerned Scientists

Solar power is expected to make up about half of all additions of US electric generating capacity in 2023, according to data from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). gigawatts (GW) of planned solar projects expected to come online this year is almost double the previous 13.4 Solar” only includes large-scale solar.

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Analysis: Bolstering Southeast Asia’s clean energy transition

A Greener Life

Dat Bike is one of numerous partners the US government works with to meet this rapidly growing demand for clean energy. government partnerships that are mobilizing billions of dollars to meet the growing demand for clean energy in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member states. © NamLong Nguyen / Shutterstock.com.

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Ontario is building new gas plants; the Feds need to step in now

Enviromental Defense

These could include local solar power, smaller-scale energy storage options, and energy efficiency and conservation programs, all of which would be way cheaper than constructing new gas plants. The Ontario government may not care about climate change but the Federal government says it does. What a boondoggle!

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Ontario: Now is the time to increase renewable energy, not fossil gas

Enviromental Defense

One is that gas plant contracts signed (or renewed) before 2025 will be able to evade meeting the national CERs beyond 2035 which is when the regulations are supposed to kick in. . And between 2009 and 2016, Ontario built over 2000 MW of solar power and about 3000 MW of wind power. But there are loopholes.

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Analysis: Can Inner Mongolia reach peak carbon this decade?

A Greener Life

The region will need to change its industrial structure and energy mix to meet national carbon targets, requiring policy and financial support from central government. Energy authorities in Inner Mongolia are aiming to connect 50 gigawatts of renewable power to the grid by 2025. The Kubuqi desert. Photo credit: Alamy.