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Utility solar dethrones coal as the cheapest power source in Asia

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Photo: China News Service Renewable energy costs in Asia last year were 13% cheaper than coal and are expected to be 32% cheaper by 2030, according to a new study. This is significant because it marks a shift toward making renewables increasingly competitive with coal, a mainstay in APAC’s energy mix.

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China’s battery storage capacity growth likely to slow in 2024 – ET Auto

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CNESA forecast improvements in the economics of battery energy storage in China this year, without providing specifics. This is particularly important for China, which has minimal natural gas capacity, a more flexible power source than slow-ramping coal plants.

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China’s battery storage capacity growth likely to slow in 2024 – ET Auto

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“In 2024, the entire world is in a stage of reconfiguring supply chains, geopolitics are bringing new challenges to supply chains,” CNESA said in the white paper. This is particularly important for China, which has minimal natural gas capacity, a more flexible power source than slow-ramping coal plants.

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BNEF: steel industry set to pivot to hydrogen in green push; additional $278B for clean capacity and retrofits

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Another 45% could come from recycled material, and the rest from a combination of older, coal-fired plants fitted with carbon capture systems and innovative processes using electricity to refine iron ore into iron and steel. Retrofit or close any remaining coal-fired capacity by 2050. Source: BloombergNEF.

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Roskill: graphite prices could push higher on tightening markets for batteries & electrodes

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The tight supply/demand situation for graphite electrodes is expected to persist for much longer than many market observers expect. First, environmental plant closures in the raw material coal needle coke industry hampered the production of graphite electrodes. ROW still far from developing a spherical graphite supply chain.

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Berkeley Lab study forecasts China energy use will peak within 20 years; 356 million private cars by 2050

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According to this new forecast, the current steeply rising curve of energy demand in China will begin to moderate between 2030 and 2035 and flatten thereafter. It is reduced by 900 Mtce to 4600 Mtce in AIS in 2050, a cumulative energy reduction of 26 billion tonnes of coal equivalent from 2005 to 2050. billion tonnes in 2027.

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Dark Secrets at The Heart EV Supply chain We Often Fail to Address

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So that’s cleared up but there is one more area that has been overlooked which is the pollution involved with the supply chain of EVs. EV Supply chain and Pollution. The amount of coal-powered aluminium production has more than doubled since 2005, largely because of China’s expansion into the market. The Real Problem.