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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.

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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

” India’s total installed capacity renewable energy, not including hydropower, currently stands at 90 gigawatts. ” <br /> Tim Buckley explains why 2020 could be a tipping point for fossil fuels in India and around the world on this episode of Political Climate.

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

Renewable Energy World

The rest would come mostly from a mix of other low- or zero-carbon sources, including wind, nuclear, hydropower, biopower, geothermal and combustion turbines run on zero-carbon synthetic fuels such as hydrogen. One advantage solar power has over many other low-carbon technologies is that most of the U.S. power grid.

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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. Another study led by Princeton University released last month, which charts a $2.5 trillion pathway to a zero-carbon U.S.

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Solar, Wind Tax Credit Extensions and Energy R&D Package in Spending Bill Before Congress

GreenTechMedia

Congress is under pressure to pass both bills Monday to ensure continued funding of the federal government and complete a politically pressing extension of coronavirus pandemic relief measures passed in March. R&D for clean energy, energy storage, carbon capture and nuclear power.

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

Grist

The region’s power grid — part of a larger Western grid — is too weak and fractured to reliably integrate the massive increase in renewable energy needed to decarbonize. Or rising prices could fuel a political backlash. Ensuring a cleaner and reliable grid.