Coal, Solar and United Kingdom

BloombergNEF reports 11% year-on-year rise in renewable energy financing in the first half of 2022, for a total of $226B

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2022

Investment in new large- and small-scale solar projects rose to a record-breaking $120 billion, up 33% from the first half of 2021. China posted remarkable investment growth in both wind and solar project finance, according to the report. China is well on track to hit its 1,200 gigawatt wind and solar capacity target by 2030.

Financing

Financing Renewable Wind Energy

UK moves ahead on lower-carbon power to end coal use by 2025

Green Car Reports

JANUARY 3, 2017

The United Kingdom is increasing its use of low-carbon energy sources as it moves to phase out coal-fired power plants altogether by 2025.

Coal

Coal United Kingdom Carbon Power

Tesla Megapacks go live in Oahu, garnering visit from executive

Teslarati

JANUARY 7, 2024

Tesla’s Megapacks offer energy storage for renewable sources like solar, and as the company deploys more and more of these projects around the world, one large site with these giant batteries has just gone online in Hawaii. Tesla highlights latest milestone in Megapack energy storage deployment What are your thoughts?

Hawaii

Hawaii Tesla Energy Storage United Kingdom

Tesla Megapack batteries are powering Britain’s largest energy storage project

Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The construction of the United Kingdom’s largest energy storage project has begun, and it is expected to be a true difference-maker when the supply of renewables like solar or wind is low. Located in southeast England, the facility would provide 99 MW of power that will be stored in Tesla Megapack batteries.

Energy Storage

Energy Storage Energy Power Powered

IEA: time to tap into hydrogen’s potential to play a key role in a clean, secure and affordable energy future

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JUNE 15, 2019

Hydrogen can help to tackle various critical energy challenges, including helping to store the variable output from renewables like solar PV and wind to better match demand. A wide variety of fuels are able to produce hydrogen, including renewables, nuclear, natural gas, coal and oil. million by 2030.

Clean

Clean Cleaning Affordable Future

Berkeley study finds renewable portfolio standards insufficient to meet 2030 GHG emission targets; new policy required

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FEBRUARY 14, 2012

The least expensive way for the Western US to reduce greenhouse gas emissions enough to help prevent the worst consequences of global warming is to replace coal with renewable and other sources of energy that may include nuclear power, according to a new study by University of California, Berkeley, researchers. —Daniel Kammen.

Renewable

Renewable Emissions Standards Coal

EU greenhouse gas emissions from transport increased for the second year in a row in 2015; on-road up 1.6%

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JUNE 2, 2017

The United Kingdom showed the largest decrease of greenhouse gas emissions in the EU. However, the reduced use of solid fuels, for the third consecutive year, and the sustained increase in renewables—particularly biomass, wind and solar—offset otherwise higher emissions.

2015

2015 Emissions Transportation Gas

Algae.Tec Signs MOUs for China and Australia to Deploy Algae Bioreactor Technology

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AUGUST 28, 2010

As commercial plants will ideally be built on the site of large scale CO 2 emitting companies, such as coal-fired power stations, the number of modules on each site will be dependent upon the CO 2 available. Light for growing the microalgae is supplied through a novel solar collector located adjacent to or in close proximity to the process.

Australia

Australia China United Kingdom 2010

Black carbon is a much larger cause of climate change than previously assessed; about twice previous estimates, and 2/3 the effect of CO2

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JANUARY 16, 2013

This assessment provides an evaluation of black-carbon climate forcing that is comprehensive in its inclusion of all known and relevant processes and that is quantitative in providing best estimates and uncertainties of the main forcing terms: direct solar absorption, influence on liquid, mixed-phase, and ice clouds, and deposition on snow and ice.

Climate Change

Climate Change Climate Carbon CO2

$12+M awarded to 4 projects seeking to design crops with ability to fix their own nitrogen; no artificial fertilizers

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AUGUST 23, 2013

Four teams of researchers in the United States and the United Kingdom recently were awarded more than $12 million to begin a program of novel research to revolutionize current farming methods by giving crops the ability to thrive without using costly, polluting artificial fertilizers.

St. Louis

St. Louis Design Washington Universal

Joint IEA-NEA report details plunge in costs of renewable electricity; nuclear competitive with other baseload power sources

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2015

2010 and 2015 LCOE ranges for solar and wind technologies. The cost of producing electricity from renewable sources such as wind and solar has been falling for several years. Bottom: LCOE ranges for solar PV and wind technologies at three discount rates. Source: IEA/NEA. Click to enlarge. Source: IEA/NEA.

Cost Of

Cost Of Renewable South Africa Power

War in Ukraine: We Need to Talk About Fossil Fuels

Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The continent was mostly powered by locally mined coal until the 1950s, when imports of cheap Middle Eastern oil started transforming the energy picture. produced fuels was further reduced by an accelerated shift away from coal, which in 2020 was down to 11 percent of primary supply, from 18 percent in 2000. Certification of the €9.5

Ukraine

Ukraine Russia Fuel Saudi Arabia

Inside the Global Race to Tap Potent Offshore Wind

Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

There’s good reason for this hustle: The United Kingdom wants to add 34 gigawatts of offshore wind power by 2030, en route to decarbonizing its grid by 2035. The Biden administration has called for 15 GW of floating offshore wind capacity in the United States by 2035, and recent research suggests that the U.S.

Wind

Wind Global Water Oil

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BloombergNEF reports 11% year-on-year rise in renewable energy financing in the first half of 2022, for a total of $226B

UK moves ahead on lower-carbon power to end coal use by 2025

Tesla Megapacks go live in Oahu, garnering visit from executive

Tesla Megapack batteries are powering Britain’s largest energy storage project

IEA: time to tap into hydrogen’s potential to play a key role in a clean, secure and affordable energy future

Berkeley study finds renewable portfolio standards insufficient to meet 2030 GHG emission targets; new policy required

EU greenhouse gas emissions from transport increased for the second year in a row in 2015; on-road up 1.6%

Algae.Tec Signs MOUs for China and Australia to Deploy Algae Bioreactor Technology

Black carbon is a much larger cause of climate change than previously assessed; about twice previous estimates, and 2/3 the effect of CO2

$12+M awarded to 4 projects seeking to design crops with ability to fix their own nitrogen; no artificial fertilizers

Joint IEA-NEA report details plunge in costs of renewable electricity; nuclear competitive with other baseload power sources

War in Ukraine: We Need to Talk About Fossil Fuels

Inside the Global Race to Tap Potent Offshore Wind

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