The Rise of Batteries in 6 Charts & Not Too Many Numbers

Credit to Author: RMI| Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:01:29 +0000

The unstoppable rise of batteries is leading to a domino effect that puts half of global fossil fuel demand at … [continued]

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Tripling Renewable Energy By 2030 Is Possible — And Essential

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2023 19:23:30 +0000

To keep the Earth from getting hotter, more renewable energy will be required — quite a bit more according to several sources.

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What’s New in Coal Power Innovation?

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2023 05:15:00 +0000

Despite a dismal outlook for coal, countries with substantial coal fleets are intensifying efforts to develop new technologies and operational capabilities to improve coal power’s environmental impact

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Energy in Transition—Where Are Investors Looking Next?

Credit to Author: Levi Zurbrugg| Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2023 21:16:26 +0000

Renewables are far from the primary power source in the U.S. No longer is the cost of renewable energy, particularly onshore wind and solar, the most substantial hurdle to the […]

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More Investment In Solar Than Oil In 2023

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2023 03:34:18 +0000

When I started writing on CleanTechnica in 2009, we were often writing about solar power. It was a hot, fast-growing industry. It was exploding and forecasts for it were enormous. Yet, investments in solar power were nowhere close to investments in oil, and anyone who suggested solar would surpass oil at some point soon-ish would […]

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OTEC, a Long-Stalled Baseload Ocean Power Technology, Is Seeing a Swell

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2023 04:29:40 +0000

A project to deploy a 1.5-MW commercial-scale ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) platform in the African island nation of São Tomé and Príncipe by 2025 has gained a key design certification. The crucial

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Strange Goop Resolves Sticky Perovskite Solar Cell Problems

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Mon, 29 May 2023 15:35:05 +0000

perovskite solar cells xlynx iea investingThe Canadian startup XlynX aims to improve perovskite solar cells with a new advanced adhesive.

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Clean Energy Spending Grows, but Big Investments Continue in Coal and Other Fossil Fuels

Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Thu, 25 May 2023 18:45:30 +0000

The International Energy Agency (IEA) expects investment in clean energy technologies, including “renewable power, nuclear, grids, storage, low-emission fuels, efficiency improvements and end-use renewables and electrification,” to exceed $1.7 trillion […]

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2022 Set a Global Record for Coal Generation

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2023 05:12:00 +0000

The recent shake-up in natural gas markets and their ensuing impact on energy security, and geopolitical tension, dramatically altered the trajectory of global coal-fired generation, sending it soaring to

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A Glimpse Into The Post-Oil Era: How The Uneven Impacts Of 2025-2030 Peak Oil Demand Will Shape The Future Of Energy

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2023 17:59:22 +0000

DALL·E generated image of oil barrels getting smaller left to rightAs Sheikh Zaki Yamani, a former Saudi oil minister, once said, “The stone age came to an end not for a lack of stones, and the oil age will end, but not for a lack of oil.” But some oil will still be being pumped at the end, and it won’t be heavy, sour, far from water crude.

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