Renewable Energy World

JULY 1, 2019

China’s National Development and Reform Commission (the NDRC) issued a Circular on Policies of Improving the Electricity Price for On-Grid Wind Power (the Circular) at the end of May 2019. According to the Circular, the price of electricity from offshore wind power projects is cut to 0.8 yuan per kWh [US $0.12

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 6, 2021

Renewables’ rising share of the total is partly attributable to net decommissioning of fossil fuel power generation in Europe, North America and for the first time across Eurasia (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Russian Federation and Turkey). Total fossil fuel additions fell to 60 GW in 2020 from 64 GW the previous year.

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Business Green

JUNE 26, 2020

Latest data reveals renewable power sources provided almost half of the UK's electricity during first three months of 2020. per cent increase on the first quarter of 2019, mostly due to a 19 per cent - or 1.6GW - surge in offshore wind capacity. — RenewableUK (@RenewableUK) June 25, 2020.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The new study, released by the Environment America Research & Policy Center and Frontier Group, states that the US needs to continue to expand its portfolio of renewables (wind, solar, geothermal) by 15% per annum, to achieve the 2035 milestone. In 2020, wind accounted for 8.4% of the nation’s electricity.

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Business Green

APRIL 5, 2022

That is the headline conclusion from the annual Global Wind Report 2022 , which was released today by the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) and confirms that wind power saw its second-best year for growth in 2021, with almost 94GW of capacity added globally - just 1.8 However, other regions enjoyed record years.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 30, 2021

gigawatts of new wind power capacity in 2020, while project costs declined and performance improved, according to the Dept. The 2021 Land-based Wind Market Report , prepared by the Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory, found that wind increased its share of the U.S. Follow @EngelsAngle.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

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. power consumed generated no CO2 emissions,” said Ethan Zindler, BloombergNEF’s head of Americas. power in 2020.

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Greentown Labs

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Champion climate policy. Following opening remarks from Greentown CEO Emily Reichert and a spotlight on our member QuantAQ’s climate justice work , we kicked off the summit with a panel that zeroed in on the technology, policies, and investments needed to ensure the coming energy transition is a just one. ” Then, with the U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Since 2005, Evergy has reduced the share of coal-fired power in its 6.2-gigawatt At the same time, it increased its share of renewables from less than 1 percent to roughly 27 percent, almost entirely wind power, with nearly 3.9 gigawatts of nameplate capacity as of 2020. Similarly, Xcel Energy, which serves about 3.3

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Business Green

APRIL 14, 2021

UK leads the way as Europe's onshore and offshore wind sector sees investment grow 70 per cent, despite Covid-19 disruption. Europe wants more wind energy to deliver its climate and energy goals," he said. But the right policies are missing, notably on the permitting of new farms where rules and procedures are too complex.

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Clean Energy Canada

JULY 3, 2020

Wind power, solar power, electric vehicles, biofuels, cleantech, hydro: there’s an industry association for each of them. For starters, consider that over the first four months of 2020, clean energy stocks actually grew 2.2 In 2020, it’s the realistic one. per cent, while fossil fuel stocks plummeted 40.5

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 8, 2021

Research firm Wood Mackenzie says it anticipates the global wind power industry will install 1 TW of new capacity between 2021 and 2030. Despite the growth in the wind energy market, there is a need for the enactment of new policies or revision of existing targets to ensure increased uptake of wind.

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Business Green

MAY 19, 2021

In 2020 global renewable energy capacity investments grew two per cent to $303.5bn worldwide, with money still pouring into the sector during a year heavily hit by the Covid-19 pandemic, according to EY's 57th Renewable Energy Country Attractiveness Index.

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GreenBiz

JULY 20, 2020

Mon, 07/20/2020 - 02:11. Last week, a group of activists, scientists, academics and others issued a report calling for policies and other initiatives to generate prosperity while addressing inequity and the climate crisis. It’s also possible that market signals could drive many of these notions forward without policy action. "We

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

According to the report, about 90% of all new electricity generation in 2020 is renewable. If the IEA report is anything to go by, the world will see a record increase of 200 gigawatts in renewable energy capacity in 2020 compared to last year. However, that has reduced to just about 45% in 2020. Read the original here:Â .

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Business Green

MARCH 11, 2022

However, GWEC's report today stresses that political leadership is still urgently needed to kick-start the sector in many markets, as at present floating wind remains a nascent technology and a relatively small market, with global installed capacity standing at around 17MW in 2020.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 17, 2021

The Clean Power Quarterly Market Report, released last week by the American Clean Power Association (ACP), shows that U.S. project developers installed nearly 40 percent more wind power in the first three months of 2021 than in the first three months of 2020, the strongest year ever for clean power.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 24, 2020

Market researcher Wood Mackenzie has trimmed its forecast for global wind installations in 2020 by 6.5 WoodMac now expects the world to add 73 gigawatts of new wind capacity in 2020, still a solid jump from the 62 gigawatts built in 2019. Workforce shortages outside the major wind markets. percent, or 4.9

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

” The key electoral battleground for energy and climate policy looks to be the Senate, where a third of the seats are up for grabs, most of them held by Republicans. But that hasn’t stopped coal-fired power plants from closing at an even faster pace over the past four years than during Obama’s second term.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 10, 2021

Greg Abbott, Public Utility Commission of Texas Chairman Peter Lake, and leaders in the state legislature, said current policy proposals are built on the false premise that renewable energy sources – like wind and solar – were to blame for the outages. The Texas Capitol in Austin on a snowy day in Feb.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 26, 2021

European Union countries generated more electricity from renewables than from coal and gas for the first time ever in 2020, according to a report released Monday. Coal power slumped by 20 percent year-on-year while solar and wind power grew 15 percent and 9 percent, respectively. GW of deployment in 2020.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 29, 2021

And so, at this point, it’s hard to translate changes in climate & policy into econ & financial projections. billion in damages just in 2020, according to the National Climatic Data Center. The two biggest winning technologies out of the energy transition so far — solar and wind power — are pretty old.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 16, 2021

bp takes 50% interest in Equinor’s Empire Wind and Beacon Wind offshore wind projects Renewables set to outspend oil and gas exploration in APAC by 2020. Ravindra Puranik, Oil and Gas Analyst at GlobalData, comments: “Global power demand is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 2.5%

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Barring significant changes in policies or trends, U.S. The report forecasts that renewable energy will be the primary source for new electricity generation, but power from natural gas, coal, and batteries will continue to meet load and provide grid stability. Follow @EngelsAngle.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Policies are needed to advance technologies. California is a great example of policies leading technological innovation and market change. Support from policy, legislation, regulators, nonprofit, public sector and private sector can drive the change. I bring policy, planning, and sustainability expertise and approaches.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

A new report released by S&P Global Market Intelligence states that the US will continue to install record levels of solar and wind capacity in 2022 as the energy transition intensifies. The creation of dedicated programmes including virtual power purchase agreements and green tariffs will support clean capacity deployments.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 13, 2020

Thu, 08/13/2020 - 02:15. Yet as a best guess, if these were market-ready today, renewable thermal solutions would cost from two times to over 10 times more than fossil fuels, according to an October report from the Center for Global Energy Policy (CGEP) at Columbia University. . Adam Aston. Making natural gas renewable .

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Policies are needed to advance technologies. California is a great example of policies leading technological innovation and market change. Support from policy, legislation, regulators, nonprofit, public sector and private sector can drive the change. I bring policy, planning, and sustainability expertise and approaches.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 20, 2021

It projected that annual carbon dioxide emissions from the electric power sector would rise from 2,400 million to 3,000 million metric tons from 2005 to 2020. This drop happened thanks to policy, market and technology drivers. has also become more energy efficient since 2005, thanks to policies and technology improvements.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 21, 2020

They could also set the industries in a more advantageous position to seek further federal policy support as President-elect Joe Biden takes office and seeks to implement ambitious decarbonization goals for the U.S. ” Wind tax credit impacts. Wind power will also benefit from the tax extensions provided for in the bill.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JANUARY 19, 2021

Policies are needed to advance technologies. California is a great example of policies leading technological innovation and market change. Support from policy, legislation, regulators, nonprofit, public sector and private sector can drive the change. I bring policy, planning, and sustainability expertise and approaches.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

A 2020 report from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) found that deals are generally larger when they involve institutional investment. IRENA analysis conducted in 2020 showed that despite accounting for $87 trillion in assets under management, institutional investors had up to then played a minor role in financing renewables.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The IEA has previously estimated the world needs to add 630GW of new solar and 390GW of new onshore and offshore wind power capacity every year by 2030 in order to reach net zero goals, which is around four times the record-setting amount of renewables capacity in 2020.

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Business Green

APRIL 7, 2021

Oil and gas giant details climate policy misalignments with several major global trade associations in latest review. It follows Shells decision in 2019 to leave the American Fuel & Petrochemical Association due to "material misalignment" on climate policy. "We billion tonnes of CO2 equivalent in 2020.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2022

MPs with a history of casting doubt on climate science and opposing green policies are poised for cabinet positions under Tory leadership favourite Liz Truss, prompting fears over the UK’s climate ambitions. However, many have expressed deep misgivings about policies to achieve the target and may still belong to the loose grouping.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 28, 2022

Singer, an American atmospheric physicist who died in 2020, argued that climate change was natural and not increased by human-caused carbon dioxide emissions. In 1990 he founded the Science and Environment Policy Project (SEPP) that expounded these views. Peterson responded to the criticism on Thursday in tweets to his 2.2

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 4, 2021

The development of the wind industry, on the other hand, picked up slightly this quarter. gigawatts of wind generation capacity were installed in the second quarter of 2021, compared to just under 3 gigawatts in the previous quarter. All of the wind capacity built out in the second quarter of 2021 was onshore.

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