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Clean energy technology supply chains must get better, faster, cleaner, says report

Envirotec Magazine

2 Other considerations include balancing political priorities, such as creating local jobs and energy security, with feasibility challenges, for example, caused by stringent environmental and social standards, slow permitting, and difficulties in accessing finance. Materials and component supplies will be increasingly important.

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IRENA: Green energy-led coronavirus recovery would deliver $98tr boost by 2050

Business Green

The report sees the influential Abu Dhabi-based agency join the UN, the IEA, and a raft of top political and business figures in calling for economic recovery plans to focus on driving more ambitious climate action. The time has come to invest trillions, not into fossil fuels, but into sustainable energy infrastructure.".

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How India’s Renewable Energy Sector Survived and Thrived in a Turbulent 2020

GreenTechMedia

With power demand expected to triple by 2040 as India’s population continues to achieve upward mobility, fossil fuels are poised to see continued growth even as the clean energy market thrives. And to what extent can they mitigate the increase in fossil fuel use? It will reach 175 gigawatts before 2022.”

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Biden’s proposed increase in solar power would remake the US electricity system

Renewable Energy World

grid: business as usual; decarbonization, meaning a massive shift to low-carbon and carbon-free energy sources; and decarbonization with economy-wide electrification of activities that are powered now by fossil fuels. One advantage solar power has over many other low-carbon technologies is that most of the U.S.

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MIT Study: Transmission Is Key to a Low-Cost, Decarbonized US Grid

GreenTechMedia

-wide transmission build-out could also slash the costs of reaching a zero-carbon grid with wind, solar and battery technologies that are cost-effective today. Whether it’s politically possible for the U.S. transmission grid. Another study led by Princeton University released last month, which charts a $2.5

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Cascadia is known for strong climate action. So why are emissions still rising?

Grist

Activists won a string of local victories, passing municipal and regional laws to ban new and expanded fossil fuel developments. What was missing were government policies capable of shoving economic growth onto a track that required less energy from fossil fuels. Or rising prices could fuel a political backlash.