Interesting Chart: How Much Solar or Wind Dominate Renewable Energy in Different Countries

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2024 16:38:06 +0000

I was going through the new Integrating Solar and Wind: Global experience and emerging challenges report from the International Energy Agency (IEA), and I noticed an interesting graph. Well, there are at least a few interesting charts, but this one chart is something I don’t think I’ve ever seen. The … [continued]

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Electric Car Companies Push Back Against Restrictive Trade Policies

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Sun, 07 Jul 2024 23:23:22 +0000

The world of electric car manufacturing is expanding, as Chinese companies build new factories in more countries.

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POWER Digest [July 2024]

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2024 12:25:27 +0000

Economics Could Bring Early Closure for Slovenia Coal-Fired Plant. Slovenian Prime Minister Robert Golob in May said the Termoelektrana Šoštanj (TEŠ) facility, the country’s only remaining coal-fired

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Undersea Cable Projects to Transmit Renewable Energy Move Forward

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2023 10:06:19 +0000

Government officials in the UK have shown further support for a plan to bring renewable energy from a massive project in Morocco to Britain, one of at least three projects worldwide in which miles-long subsea

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Small Glimmers Of Hope As Climate Changes Exacerbate Violence

Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2023 03:57:54 +0000

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has established a causal link between climate change and the rise in armed conflicts in sub-Saharan African countries: Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Somalia, and Sudan. This region has become the global epicenter of violent extremist activity. That and other stories from Afrik21 are below. “On the […]

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Gotion High-Tech Signs MOU for Big Battery Factory in Morocco

Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2023 19:15:12 +0000

LFP batteryThe Morocco Agency for Investments and Exports announced this week that Morocco has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Gotion High-Tech for the development and establishment of an industrial ecosystem for the production of batteries for electric vehicles as well as for stationary storage applications. The Head of Government, Aziz Akhannouch, presided over the […]

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Electric Vehicle Progress in Africa

Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2023 13:54:41 +0000

Africa is leapfrogging centralized coal-fired power for electricity generation, but what progress is being made in the uptake of electric vehicles? Green shoots are appearing. I have written previously about buses and boda bodas, but what other vehicles are being provided for the 45 countries and more than one billion people of this vast continent? […]

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Volvo Delivers Its 1st Electric Heavy-Duty Truck In Africa

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2023 13:37:28 +0000

In some ways, it’s going to be a little easier to electrify transportation in developing countries. While the top selling car in history is the Toyota Corolla, its sales are dwarfed by the Honda Super Cub and its variants, and motorcycle sales are dwarfed by those of bicycles like the Chinese Flying Pigeon. Motorcycles and […]

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Sand to Green in Africa

Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2023 04:15:10 +0000

Like a scene from Dune, the French–Moroccan startup Sand to Green aims to turn the desert from threat to food producer. It’s a lesson Australia also needs to learn. “If we were to try to produce all the food we will need in 2050 using current production systems, the world would have to convert most […]

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