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BloombergNEF: clean energy investment in developing nations slumps as financing in China slows; coal burn surges to record high

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The findings suggest that developing nations are moving toward cleaner power but not nearly fast enough to limit global CO 2 emissions. Overall, declining costs for solar and wind played a considerable factor in the fall in absolute dollar investment in emerging economies. billion and $2.7 billion, respectively, from the year prior.

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Thermal Solar Goes Where PVs Can’t

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In recent years, however, CSP development stalled amid the rapidly falling cost of solar PV. Even so, solar-thermal developments continue to unfurl across the planet's sunniest expanses, driven by the growing demand for energy storage and cleaner heat sources. Atacama Desert, Chile The US $1.4

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Thermal Solar Goes Where PVs Can’t

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In recent years, however, CSP development stalled amid the rapidly falling cost of solar PV. Even so, solar-thermal developments continue to unfurl across the planet's sunniest expanses, driven by the growing demand for energy storage and cleaner heat sources. Atacama Desert, Chile The US $1.4

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UOP looking to biomass catalytic pyrolysis to expand volumes of renewable hydrocarbon fuels

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UOP is moving faster commercially on the Green Diesel side, with the Diamond Green project with Darling International and Valero Energy nearly complete. The refining technology is probably about $4-5/barrel more expensive to make renewable diesel out of fats and greases.there’s not a lot of extra cost on the refining technology.

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The raw materials crunch: How bad, how long, how to solve it?

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We EVangelists have gotten used to smugly pointing to the steadily declining costs of batteries (and renewable energy). That said, with increased adoption of batteries, alongside improvements in technologies, the [long-term] trend is likely to still be towards lower battery costs and increased affordability, as economies of scale take hold.”.