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Comment: Offshore wind needs to increase by 265% to meet govt targets

Envirotec Magazine

To mark Global Wind Day 2023 on June 15, ABB – which describes itself as the largest supplier of electrical components to the wind industry around the world – discusses the measures needed to achieve the UK’s goals in relation to offshore wind power. This load factor = 0.402.

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Solar Panel Landfill Deemed Safe as Recycling Options Grow

GreenTechMedia

Europe's big idea, small volumes. still lags behind Europe on solar recycling. Even with this regulatory pressure, cost-effective solar recycling remains a challenge in Europe, as in the U.S., Europe only has one dedicated PV recycling plant so far. Solving wind power's blade problem.

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WoodMac: Energy Sector Faces ‘Darwinian Challenge’ to Tame Climate Change

GreenTechMedia

The report plots out the steps required to stay within 2 degrees of warming, finding that Western Europe and the U.S. In its first INDC, submitted in 2016, China offered only a carbon-intensity limit for 2030. The declining costs of solar and wind power make green hydrogen an attractive proposition.

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Climate Sceptic Goes Unchallenged on BBC’s Today Programme

DeSmogBlog

The consultant was the sole interviewee in the segment, in which she claimed that the move to renewable energy, primarily wind power, was increasing the risk of blackouts. Wind Power ‘Blackout’ Risk Porter told BBC Radio 4 listeners in the interview: “There were risks around blackouts this winter.

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Global corporate clean energy purchasing up 18% in 2020

Renewable Energy World

GW in 2019 – the first year-on-year drop since 2016. Corporate PPA volumes in the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region rose from 2.6 Further, companies like Total and Anheuser Busch are orchestrating ‘cross-border virtual PPAs’ in Spain, buying clean energy in the country to offset their load elsewhere in Europe.

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Reports: Boris Johnson to push ahead with onshore wind expansion despite Cabinet concerns

Business Green

Boris Johnson is set to push ahead with plans to loosen planning rules to allow an expansion of onshore wind capacity across England and Wales, according to reports, despite the misgivings of some Cabinet members who continue to view turbines as a blight on the countryside. 89% of councils don't allow wind ??96%

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Saudi Arabia’s Plan to Rule the $700 Billion Hydrogen Market from a Marine Perspective

Mr. Sustainability

Changing desert into a renewable paradise As governments and industries seek less-polluting alternatives to hydrocarbons, the world’s biggest crude exporter doesn’t want to cede the upcoming hydrogen business to China, Europe or Australia and lose a potentially massive source of income. per kilogram by 2030, according to BNEF.

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