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Tracking Climate Action: How the World Can Still Limit Warming to 1.5 Degrees C

The City Fix

One day, it’s catastrophic wildfires wreaking havoc around the world; the next, it’s an optimistic piece on the rapid scale-up of solar and wind power. Today’s climate change headlines often seem at odds with each other. Taken together, such stories.

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World adds record new renewable energy capacity in 2020

Renewable Energy World

installed 29 GW of renewables last year, nearly 80% more than in 2019, including 15 GW of solar and around 14 GW of wind. GW, slightly more than in 2019, while Oceania remained the fastest growing region (+18.4%), although its share of global capacity is small and almost all expansion occurred in Australia.

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Webinar 19 Jul: Using analytics to proactively manage the grid & work smarter

Smart Energy International

As the adoption of electric vehicles and distributed energy resources like solar, wind power, and battery storage become more widespread and add more load to the grid, the introduction of these new elements creates disruption and presents grid reliability challenges that must be addressed. 60-minute session.