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New Sustainable Energy Factbook shows 2020 was ‘blockbuster’ year for renewables in America

Renewable Energy World

clean energy sectors showed strong resilience in 2020, continuing a decade-long growth trend, BloombergNEF (BNEF) and the Business Council for Sustainable Energy (BCSE) find in their annual joint report. Notable clean energy statistics from the pandemic year include: Power Generation. power in 2020. Natural gas demand dipped 0.8%

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'We are the good guys': IRENA's Francesco La Camera on hydrogen, nuclear, and the energy crisis

Business Green

But to deliver this scenario requires investment of around five per cent global GDP each year, amounting to an additional $33tr of additional investment in energy efficiency, renewables, end-use electrification, power grids, flexibility, hydrogen infrastructure, and myriad other clean tech innovations, it said. world alive, he said.