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Nuclear Power Could Cut The World’s Carbon Emissions In Half

R-Squared Energy

In the previous article Renewable Energy Grew At A Blistering Pace In 2021 , I highlighted the inability of renewable energy to keep up with overall energy demand: “But here is the challenge the world faces. exajoule global increase in renewable energy consumption, global energy demand increased by 31.3 Against the backdrop of the 5.1

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Global Energy Trends From The 2023 Statistical Review Of World Energy

R-Squared Energy

While renewable power expanded at record rates, fossil fuels maintained an 82% share of total primary energy consumption. Natural gas and coal demand stayed nearly flat with oil rebounding close to pre-pandemic levels. Primary Global Energy Consumption 2022 ROBERT RAPIER Global energy demand grew by 1.1% Oil demand grew by 3.1%

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Can the US Catch Up in the Green Hydrogen Economy?

GreenTechMedia

Government and industry investment in hydrogen as an energy carrier adds up to $2 billion per year in Asia and the European Union, the report finds, while U.S. lags behind China, Japan and the European Union in infrastructure and research investments to reach this potential.

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'Grounds for optimism': Global CO2 emissions flatlined in 2019, data indicates

Business Green

The global energy agency put the halt in CO2 growth down to declining emissions from power generation in advanced economies such as the EU and the USA, thanks in large part to the expanding role of renewable energy such as wind and solar.

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Multi-trillion dollar opportunity: BNEF charts course to a net zero global energy system

Business Green

Indeed, it estimates more than three-quarters of the effort to cut carbon emissoins in the next nine years falls to the power sector, primarily through faster development of wind and solar PV capacity. billion metric tonnes under a renewables-heavy pathway.

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Biden calls for a big expansion of offshore wind – here’s how officials decide where the turbines may go

Renewable Energy World

The first off shore wind farm in the US went online May 1st 2017 in Block Island, Rhode Island. Why does the Biden administration want to build so much wind power at sea? offshore wind resources could provide over 2,000 gigawatts of generating capacity – nearly twice as much electricity as the nation uses every year.