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Report details China’s complex energy landscape and its enormous green energy shift

Envirotec Magazine

Wind is China’s largest source of electricity after coal and hydropower, delivering 9.4% The power sector is decarbonizing quickly by replacing coal with domestically sourced renewable energy, and domestically produced coal will largely be sufficient for the remaining coal demand segments by 2050.

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How hydropower can support a stable, low-carbon grid and healthy rivers

Renewable Energy World

Climate change-induced heat waves are once again increasing demand for electricity just as the impacts of wildfires, drought and a diminished snowpack have coalesced to reduce electricity supplies and disrupt critical transmission and distribution systems. How hydropower balances a renewable energy grid.

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Low carbon generation set to meet electricity demand growth – IEA

Smart Energy International

The IEA’s Electricity 2024 report records electricity demand growth easing in 2023 but is projected to accelerate over the next three years through 2026. The update finds that world demand for electricity grew by 2.2% The update finds that world demand for electricity grew by 2.2% in 2023, less than the 2.4%

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Electrification gets down to the wire

GreenBiz

The once-humdrum electricity sector has become a hub of interest and innovation for the worlds of energy, infrastructure, manufacturing, transportation, buildings, policy, finance and others. Buildings are similarly opening their doors to being powered entirely by electricity, supplanting natural gas and other fuels for heating and cooling.

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Highlights From The BP Statistical Review Of World Energy 2021

R-Squared Energy

The Review provides a comprehensive picture of supply and demand for major energy sources on a country-level basis. For example, as I will detail below, oil demand fell dramatically last year, but we already know that it has largely recovered in 2021. Natural Gas. Global natural gas consumption declined by 2.3%.

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New Sustainable Energy Factbook shows 2020 was ‘blockbuster’ year for renewables in America

Renewable Energy World

The ninth edition of the Sustainable Energy in America Factbook tells the story of American energy efficiency, natural gas and renewable energy in a volatile year. Greenhouse Gas Emissions Source: BloombergNEF estimate. The economic disruption caused a massive drop in national greenhouse gas emissions. Figure 1: U.S.

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New Report Shows Gap Between Utility Carbon Pledges and Climate Change Imperatives

GreenTechMedia

New research asserts most have undermined those goals by keeping coal plants running and building new natural gas plants meant to operate for decades to come. utilities that still rely on coal and natural gas for most of their generation capacity. All but one call for new natural gas plants.