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How Cold Seawater Can Heat Helsinki’s Homes
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To transition from fossil fuels, the Finnish capital is looking to tap into a very abundant resource: icy water from deep in the Baltic Sea.
European Union Signals a Move Away from Wood Energy
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An activist group is spreading misinformation to stop solar projects in rural America
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Roger Houser's ranching business was getting squeezed. The calves he raises in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley were selling for about the same price they had a few years earlier, while costs for essentials like fuel and fertilizer kept going up. But Houser found another use for his 500 acres.
New French law will blanket parking lots with solar panels
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The measure could add 10 nuclear power plants’ worth of solar panels atop parking lots
Some good news on energy
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Global ‘Stilling’: Is Climate Change Slowing Down the Wind?
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A New Climate Reality Is Coming Into View
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Record clean energy spending is set to help global energy investment grow by 8% in 2022
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Driven by renewables and energy efficiency – as well as rising costs – today’s levels of capital spending are still far from sufficient to tackle the energy and climate crises
Geothermal Power, Cheap and Clean, Could Help Run Japan. So Why Doesn’t It?
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For decades, new plants have been blocked by powerful local interests, the owners of hot spring resorts, that say the sites threaten a centuries-old tradition.
International Energy Agency
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The IEA is at the heart of the global dialogue on energy, providing authoritative analysis, data, policy recommendations, and real-world solutions
Coal Baron or Climate Warrior? The Dizzying Rise of Asia’s Richest Man.
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The business decisions of Gautam Adani could go a long way in determining whether India helps the world avert a climate catastrophe.
How Renewables Could Kill Off Fossil Fuel Electricity By 2035: New Report
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$1 Trillion Green Investment Matches Fossil Fuels for First Time
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World spent $1.1 trillion transitioning to clean power in 2022, same as amount spent producing oil and gas.
Inside the Global Race to Turn Water Into Fuel
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Hundreds of billions of dollars are being invested in a high-tech gamble to make hydrogen clean, cheap and widely available. In Australia’s Outback, that starts with 10 million new solar panels.
Analysis: What do China’s gigantic wind and solar bases mean for its climate goals?
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Bringing community solar to low-income customers is a lot harder than you might think
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An Illinois entrepreneur says building trust is critical in communities where many people are deeply skeptical of outsiders offering to make a deal.
LOW←TECH MAGAZINE
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This is a solar-powered website, which means it sometimes goes offline
Beaming Clean Energy From Space
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Once considered science fiction, technology capable of collecting solar power in space and beaming it to Earth to provide a global supply of clean and affordable energy is moving closer to reality. Through the Space-based Solar Power Project (SSPP), a team of Caltech researchers is working to deploy a constellation of modular spacecraft that collect sunlight, transform it into electricity, then wirelessly transmit that electricity wherever it is needed—including to places that currently have no access to reliable power.
The surprising key to a clean energy future
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Twice as much "clean power" needed
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A lot of energy continues to come from power plants that need water for cooling - but that is becoming increasingly scarce. That's why the World Meteorological Organization is calling for greater reliance on wind and solar energy. It sees security of supply at risk.
The UN just handed out an urgent climate to-do list. Here’s what it says.
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Cheap and available technologies can help us meet climate goals this decade: here’s how, according to the new UN climate report.
Renewables Will Overtake Coal by Early 2025, Energy Agency Says
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In a new report, the international group said that solar, wind and other renewable sources will expand much more swiftly than forecast last year.
U.S. emissions rose slightly in 2022. They need to be falling rapidly.
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U.S. emissions saw a modest increase in 2022, even as renewables surpassed coal, report says
How the UK transformed its electricity supply in just a decade
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This interactive article shows how the UK has transformed its electricity supply in a decade – and how things are expected to continue changing. To tell this story of unprecedented change, Carbon Brief has mapped every power plant in the UK, in each year since 2008, as well as taken a look into the future. From the smallest solar rooftop to the largest coal-fired giant, this UK map is the most comprehensive ever published, containing nearly 3,000 larger sites and more than 800,000 smaller ones.
This giant underground battery is a $1-billion clean energy solution
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A group of local governments announced Thursday it’s signed a 25-year, $775-million contract to buy power from what would be the world’s largest compressed-air energy storage project.
Are There Better Places to Put Large Solar Farms Than These Forests?
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Germans Have Seen the Future, and It’s a Heat Pump
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The boxy machines look and function like large air-conditioners on reverse, but Germans hope they hold the key to Europe’s push for fossil-free heating.
The U.S. has a plan to raise cash for developing nations. Some are skeptical.
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John Kerry, the country’s climate envoy, was expected to announce the carbon offset plan on Wednesday. Payments from companies would go to countries struggling to adopt renewable energy.
A Deal to Help South Africa Is a Breakthrough for the World
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The United States has committed more than $1 billion as part of an $8.5 billion international aid package to catalyze South Africa’s shift to renewable energy, and, after two years of talks about the details, the government in Pretoria is to deliver a plan in February for carrying it out.
War in Ukraine Likely to Speed, Not Slow, Shift to Clean Energy, I.E.A. Says
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While some nations are burning more coal this year in response to natural-gas shortages spurred by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, that effect is expected to be short-lived.
India Chases Clean Energy, but Economic Goals Put Coal First
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“I will not compromise on the availability of power,” India’s energy minister has declared in defense of fossil fuel use, which is heavily subsidized.
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Europe’s Energy Risks Go Beyond Gas
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When Russia cut off a key flow of cheap natural gas this year following its invasion of Ukraine, many European countries were left scrambling for fuel as prices soared, raising serious questions about the continent’s energy future. But gas wasn’t the only fuel to face a major test this year. Nuclear and hydropower faltered amid maintenance delays and extreme weather, while record wind and solar power generation saved Europe from a far worse fate, according to data from Ember, an energy think tank.
Rich nations mobilise $15.5bn for Vietnam’s coal-to-clean transition
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The deal will help Vietnam to peak its greenhouse gas emissions five years earlier than planned and scale up renewable energy generation
320 Grad
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Germany's online magazine for the Circular Economy
2021 Local Solar Developer Survey
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Whether a small business, a community school, or a local household, millions of American electric customers have installed rooftop solar or subscribed to shared solar farms. And it doesn’t just save money for solar customers — widespread adoption of distributed solar benefits all of us by creating jobs and lowering the costs of building a cleaner, more resilient power grid. As the price to install solar continues to fall, the opportunity expands each year to more and more Americans.
U.S. Carbon Emissions Grew in 2022
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Emissions ticked up 1.3 percent last year, even as renewables surpassed coal.
Facing Budget Shortfalls, These Schools Are Turning to the Sun
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Public schools are increasingly using savings from solar energy to upgrade facilities, help their communities, and give teachers raises — often with no cost to taxpayers.
The United States has caused the most global warming. When will China pass it?
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For thousands of years, we made things with our hands. But in the mid-1700s, people in Britain began to make things with machines that ran on fuels which, when burned, released an invisible gas called carbon dioxide — not much at first, but that would change.
Meet the man fueling clean energy opposition in the Midwest
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Kevon Martis and a group of fossil fuel-funded allies have led a decades-long campaign to sow fear and misinformation about renewable energy. It’s working.
Save public lands: Put solar on Walmart!
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Why an iPhone charging feature is facing surprising blowback
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Apple’s clean energy charging feature, which is designed to reduce your carbon footprint, faces surprising blowback
Data Centres and Data Transmission Networks
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Demand for digital services is growing rapidly. Since 2010, the number of internet users worldwide has more than doubled, while global internet traffic has expanded 20-fold. Rapid improvements in energy efficiency have, however, helped moderate growth in energy demand from data centres and data transmission networks, which each account for 1-1.5% of global electricity use. Significant additional government and industry efforts on energy efficiency, RD&D, and decarbonising electricity supply and supply chains are necessary to curb energy demand and reduce emissions rapidly over the coming decade to align with the Net Zero by 2050 Scenario.
Solar Power Europe
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SolarPower Europe is the award-winning link between policymakers and the solar PV value chain with the mission of ensuring solar becomes Europe’s leading energy source by 2030.
Are Solar Panels a Good Investment?
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Hydrogen Fuel Cell Technology: The Future Of Sustainable Aviation
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