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Acquisition by Statkraft Boosts Prospects for Solarcentury

GreenTechMedia

The £118 million ($152 million) deal gives Statkraft access to a 5-gigawatt pipeline of PV projects in Europe and just over 1 GW in South America. GW of utility-scale projects since 2013. In Southern Europe, not all projects are created equal. Solarcentury has developed 1.2

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Interview – Harnessing the potential of geothermal to scale up by 2030

ThinkGeoEnergy

In 2013, Professor Dr. Martin Saar at ETH Zurich came up with this idea: CO 2 is stored at depth and heated by the geothermal gradient, then produced and used for power generation at the surface. I would like to see that in South America, where there is only one large geothermal project (in Chile) , but many more untapped resources.

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How regulations can tear down the barriers faced by the cultivated meat industry

Business Green

In 2013, the first hamburger patty was grown from animal cells. According to the Good Food Institute, in 2021 cultivated meat companies attracted $140m of investment in Europe. Similarly, chickens in the UK are largely fed on soya which is often imported from South America.

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The disease after tomorrow

Grist

The first case of chikungunya in the Western Hemisphere was discovered in 2013 in the Caribbean. By 2017, more than 1 million people had been infected in the Americas. The disease is also prevalent in Mexico and Central and South America. The stakes: The virus that causes chikungunya is still rare in the U.S.,

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Meat Industry Climate Claims – Criticisms and Concerns

DeSmogBlog

The latest protein supply figures from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) for 2013 recorded average protein consumption of 69.1g per capita per day in Africa, 77.57g in Asia, 86.09g in South America, and 102.06g in Europe.