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Clean Energy’s Ever-Changing Policy Risk

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As an intern in Lehman Brothers’ global power group in 2008, she watched the collapse of the investment bank happen in real time. Later, as a wind and solar developer in Italy, she watched European markets grind to a halt after feed-in tariffs were slashed. And in the U.S., And in the U.S.,

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The Era of ‘Super-Hybrid’ Renewables for Oil Majors?

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Some of them include floating solar panels. In this episode of The Energy Gang , we'll explore the " super-hybrid " approach to renewables. Another major utility is getting out of America’s largest coal plant and making investments in solar-generated hydrogen. Bloom Energy is even making electrolyzers.

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A decidedly impartial review of Mark Jacobson’s 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything

Renewable Energy World

When you’ve followed the evolving research of a leading clean energy expert and become a supporter of his vision for a global clean energy transition, it should come as no surprise that I was eager to crack open Mark Jacobson’s 2021 book release, 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything.

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$1T of Potential Losses in the Pipeline for Oil and Gas Financiers

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The only climate trend more powerful for global financial institutions than the drive to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 is the momentum to exit oil and gas. According to the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA), more than 50 globally significant financial institutions have put in place an oil and gas exit policy.

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The Economic Case for Electrifying Everything

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A respected squad of researchers did the math on a swap-out of every aging boiler, truck and power plant in the U.S. Our guest co-host this week is Melissa Lott of the Columbia Center on Global Energy Policy. GTM : BP Aims to Build 50 GW of Renewables by 2030, Cut Fossil Fuel Output by 40%. Learn more.

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A Solar CEO’s 2020 Forecast: Local Developers Continue to Shine

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When we started Sol Systems around a dinner table in 2008, PV modules cost $3/watt — and that was a recent breakthrough. As we noted last year , solar energy technology continues its path to global dominance. Solar is now the least expensive source of electricity in two-thirds of the world.

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'Dire warning': Fears grow over net zero 'complacency' as emissions rebound

Business Green

The rhetoric has been hugely welcome and has contrasted positively with the months and years following the financial crash of 2008, during which proposals for green stimulus packages struggled to secure meaningful traction and a wave of new fossil fuel investment locked in another decade of rising global emissions.