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A Vibrant Cleantech Startup Ecosystem Takes Root in India

GreenTechMedia

Renewable energy projects coupled with energy storage will “change the game” for India’s power grid, Raju said, by eliminating arguments that coal and gas are needed to provide baseload power. And yet, hundreds of millions of people in India still don’t have access to affordable and reliable power.

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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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$10.5 billion programme for US grid upgrades launched

Smart Energy International

The funding, the largest single investment into the grid in over a decade since the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, which kickstarted the rollout of smart metering and a smart grid, forms part of the ‘Building a Better Grid’ initiative to upgrade the grid for a 100% clean energy future.

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More than 100,000 clean energy worker just lost their jobs and more layoffs are coming.

E2 Environmental Entrepreneurs

one essential to our economy, our resilience and our environment. It can invest in electricity grid infrastructure programs to put people back to work fixing our outdated power grid, and it can launch a national program to build more clean vehicle infrastructure like we did for automakers with highways after the Depression.

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A smart grid journey with Robert Denda of Gridspertise

Smart Energy International

In an exclusive conversation with Robert Denda, CEO of Gridspertise, he explains how digital grid solutions conceived in Italy, building on Enel Grids’ legacy, are supporting DSOs worldwide. From the outset, Denda was involved in the initiative, which gained added impetus with Enel’s initial share acquisition of Endesa in 2009.

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Initiative to create ‘world’s first’ transnational solar grid network formed at COP26

Renewable Energy World

The Green Grids Initiative seeks to connect 140 countries to clean, renewable energy and reduce dependence on coal. As part of the initiative, the International Solar Alliance aims to mobilize $1 trillion in financing by 2030 to assist developing countries in expanding their solar power grids. billion in 2019.

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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.