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Fossil fuels are losing ground to renewable energy in Europe

The Verge: Energy

. | 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. Ember, an energy think tank that crunched the numbers, calls it “an unprecedented collapse in coal and gas electricity generation.”

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2020: Fossil fuels are dead, long live the sun

GreenBiz

2020: Fossil fuels are dead, long live the sun. We’ve spent decades promoting clean energy technologies. In this strangest of all years, as the death toll mounts from a disease caused by human incursions into once intact ecosystems, we’re observing another death — the demise of fossil fuels. Hunter Lovins.

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Fossil fuel electricity has passed its peak in half the world

GreenBiz

'On the cusp of a new era': A new report confirms the momentum of the clean energy revolution.

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Pressure on creatives: PR, advertising firms targeted by fossil fuel divestment movement

GreenBiz

Pressure on creatives: PR, advertising firms targeted by fossil fuel divestment movement. As fossil fuel companies' social license to operate becomes increasingly frayed, more industries in their orbit are getting entangled in the reputational quagmire that is now part and parcel of any activity that exacerbates the climate crisis.

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Share of electricity generated by fossil fuels in Great Britain drops to record low

The Guardian: Energy

of power generation for an hour last week, data shows, amid ‘zero-carbon grid’ plans The share of Great Britain’s electricity generated by burning fossil fuels plummeted to unprecedented lows this month, ahead of plans to begin running a “zero-carbon grid” for short periods from next year. Gas and coal accounted for just 2.4%

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Musk says electric world that kicks out fossil fuels will cost less than combustion economy

Renew Economy

Musk says world can dump fossil fuels and move to an electric economy, and save money and energy. The post Musk says electric world that kicks out fossil fuels will cost less than combustion economy appeared first on RenewEconomy. I'm shocked by how few people realise this."

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Renewable energy surpasses fossil fuels in the UK

Inhabitat - Innovation

In a first for the United Kingdom, wind turbines, solar panels and other renewable energy sources have generated more electricity than their fossil fuel counterparts of coal and natural gas.