The Verge: Energy
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
. | Photo by Jan Woitas/picture alliance via Getty Images The European Union saw a record drop in pollution from fossil fuel power plants last year, according to a new report. Fossil fuels dropped to their lowest point since reliable record-keeping started in 1990, making up less than a third of EU’s electricity generation in 2023.
The Verge: Energy
MARCH 26, 2024
Lake Mead, formed by Hoover Dam on the Colorado River in the Southwestern United States, at 47 percent capacity as viewed on August 14, 2023 near Boulder City, Nevada. Photo by George Rose/Getty Images The amount of hydropower generated in the Western US last year was the lowest it’s been in more than two decades.
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Envirotec Magazine
APRIL 25, 2024
Wind is China’s largest source of electricity after coal and hydropower, delivering 9.4% of the total electricity supply in 2023. It also looks at the persistence of fossil fuels in its energy mix. On the other hand, DNV forecasts fossil fuels will still account for 40% of its energy mix in 2050.
R-Squared Energy
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
Note: The is the final article in a series on the recently released 2023 Statistical Review of World Energy. During that period, modern renewables (excluding hydropower and geothermal) grew exponentially, at an average annual rate of 12.6%. Global hydropower consumption in 2022 was 40.7 exajoules, up 0.7% However, the 5.2
The Verge: Energy
APRIL 24, 2024
While most of the world still runs on dirty fossil fuels, Costa Rica has generated nearly all of its electricity from renewable sources of energy for nearly a decade. In the winter, like a six-month period from June to December, many of the hydropower plants get surplus flows. So, it will be affected. So, it will be affected.
DeSmogBlog
JUNE 7, 2023
Doing so all but commits its customers to fossil fuels for the next 25 to 30 years, obliterating the utility’s chance of reaching any national or international, or even its own, climate goals. If you count hydropower and nuclear as clean energy sources, as the TVA does, that number bumps up to about 50 percent.
The Verge: Energy
MARCH 1, 2024
Lake Mead, formed by the dam on the Colorado River in the southwestern United States, at 47 percent capacity as viewed on August 14th, 2023. Photo by George Rose / Getty Images 2023 can now boast a terrifying record: planet-heating carbon dioxide emissions from global energy use hit a record. But we’re moving in the opposite direction.
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