Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2022 17:00:12 +0000
Norway’s Statkraft has issued its annual sustainability report and finds reasons to hope that Europe will survive its latest energy crisis.
Credit to Author: U.S. Department of Energy| Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2022 09:03:26 +0000
The transition to electric vehicles is largely driven by a need to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels and reduce emissions associated with burning fossil fuels. In 2021, 40% of the electricity produced by the electric power sector was derived from non-fossil fuel sources. Since 2007, the increase in non-fossil fuel sources has been largely […]
Credit to Author: U.S. Department of Energy| Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2022 14:00:29 +0000
Drought-strained hydropower sustains 80 percent average power generation capacity In 2022, a quick internet search for Lake Mead or Lake Powell returns startling images of drying lake beds and parched land. The megadrought in the Southwestern United States is the driest—and longest—in the last 1,200 years, depleting water reservoir levels to critically low levels over […]
Credit to Author: U.S. Department of Energy| Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2022 13:29:18 +0000
Study Surveys Trade-Offs of Technology Options To Overcome Challenging Last Few Percent to Zero-Emissions U.S. Power Grid A growing body of research has demonstrated that cost-effective high-renewable power systems are possible, but costs increase as systems approach 100% carbon-free electricity—what has become known as the “last 10% problem.” The increase in costs is largely driven […]
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2022 04:36:18 +0000
Solar and wind power continue to dominate new power capacity in the United States. July was actually a poor month relatively speaking, with just 56% of new power capacity coming from renewable energy sources due to a notable fossil gas (aka “natural gas”) capacity addition, but for the first 7 months of the year as […]
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2022 13:49:13 +0000
Anytime anyone uses the term ‘energy independence’, correct them to ‘strategic energy interdependence’.
Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2022 18:00:24 +0000
Malawi has one of the lowest electrification rates on the African continent. Access to electricity is still below 20%. Malawi has a population of about 19 million. The majority of the population lives in rural areas, and those with access to electricity in rural areas are estimated to be around 1%. The country’s electricity company […]
Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2022 20:47:23 +0000
Nepal is one of the richest countries in the world in terms of inland water resources. Nepal has about 6000 rivers, rivulets, and tributaries, and also has other significant resources such as snow cover, springs, lakes, and groundwater. The country has some of the highest for potential for hydropower. Nepal’s technical hydropower potential is reported […]
Credit to Author: U.S. Energy Information Administration| Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2022 12:30:29 +0000
U.S. electricity generation from renewable sources, such as hydropower, wind, and solar, accounted for 20% of electricity generation both in 2020 and in 2021. We expect that share to increase to 22% in 2022 and to 24% in 2023 as more generating capacity from wind and solar come online and other generation sources, such as […]
Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2022 22:50:30 +0000
When I was in primary school in Mutare, Zimbabwe, I used to go on quite a few trips with my school as well as with the AWANA club at Mutare Baptist Church. On one of the camping trips when I was in Grade 6 (11 years old), we went to one of the dams around […]