Green Car Congress
JANUARY 8, 2020
This decline was due almost entirely to a drop in coal consumption. Coal-fired power generation fell by a record 18% year-on-year to its lowest level since 1975. An increase in natural gas generation offset some of the climate gains from this coal decline, but overall power sector emissions still decreased by almost 10%.
Teslarati
JANUARY 15, 2024
While more effort is needed to reach that goal, one energy organization has predicted that renewables will overtake coal generation as the world’s largest electricity source in early 2025. Solar PV and wind account for 95 percent of the predicted 7,300 GW renewable expansion between 2023 and 2028. In the U.S.,
Baua Electric
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
Photo: Hornsea Project Europe’s coal electricity generation tanked by 26% and gas by 15% in 2023, according to a new report from energy think tank Ember. Wind and solar power are now taking center stage. Solar covered 9% of the EU’s electricity needs. Coal and gas are on their way out, and renewables are stepping up.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 20, 2021
million in federal funding for cost-shared research and development projects under the Funding Opportunity Announcement DE-FOA-0002404, Advanced Processing of Rare Earth Elements and Critical Minerals for Industrial and Manufacturing Applications. The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) has announced $28.35
Baua Electric
JANUARY 11, 2024
A Tesla Megapack battery system has officially turned on to replace Hawaii’s very last coal power plant. In early 2022, we reported that Tesla is deploying Megapacks at a new energy storage project that will replace Hawaii’s last remaining coal plant. It will enable better use of the state’s increasing renewable energy.
Green Car Congress
MAY 11, 2022
EIA also published its annual Summer Electricity Industry Outlook , which forecasts that continued US economic growth will increase electricity use by 0.4% EIA forecasts that retail sales of electricity to the industrial sector will grow by 2.8% —EIA Administrator Joe DeCarolis. and by 1.5% in the commercial sector.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 23, 2018
An economically-sustainable hydrogen industry in Australia could soon be on the cards according to a blueprint released by CSIRO, the national science agency, which found that cost-competitiveness is firmly on the horizon. Source: CSIRO. —CSIRO Chief Executive Dr Larry Marshall.
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