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More wind and solar capacity could save some of the world’s most important rivers

Renewable Energy World

This dramatic expansion of wind and solar has been driven by precipitously falling costs. The cost of new wind and solar generation, on a levelized cost of energy basis, is now lower than that of new thermal and hydropower generation, and increasingly below the operating cost of existing thermal plants.

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IRENA: Renewables accounted for three quarters of new power capacity in 2019

Business Green

The global renewable power sector added 176GW of new capacity in total last year - just fractionally down on the 179GW added in 2018 - as rapid growth in wind, solar, hydropower and other renewable power sources outpaced the fossil fuel sector by a factor of 2.6, according to IRENA.

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California is planning floating wind farms offshore to boost its power supply – here’s how they work

Renewable Energy World

A solution has emerged that’s being tested in several locations around the world: making wind turbines that float. Gavin Newsom announced plans to open up parts of the West Coast , off central California’s Morro Bay and near the Oregon state line, for offshore wind power. gigawatts of clean energy, enough to power 1.6

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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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BlackRock unit aims to boost Asian renewables to $5 billion

Renewable Energy World

BlackRock Real Assets is aiming to boost its renewables power portfolio in Asia by as much as 10-fold as it seeks to keep pace with the world’s fastest-growing region for green energy.

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IRENA: Renewable energy generates half a million new jobs worldwide in 2019

Business Green

Wind energy, meanwhile, accounted for 1.17 and hydropower employed around 1.95 Market leader Asia accounted for 63 per cent of the world's total renewable energy jobs in 2019, with China alone accounting for 38 per cent at 4.4 Around a third of the total renewable energy jobs were in the burgeoning solar sector at 3.8

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Constant Energy completes fund raising for Southeast Asian renewable IPP platform

Eco-Business

Constant Energy announced today that funds advised by Olympus Capital Asia are partnering with them to create a new larger renewable energy assets platform that will pursue opportunities in the attractive, rapidly expanding commercial and industrial (C&I;) renewable and storage market in Southeast Asia.

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