Donald Trump’s new tariffs are set to pummel the renewable energy industry, threatening to push up prices, disrupt supply chains and undercut US ambitions to lead the artificial intelligence revolution, clean-technology…Continue readingDonald Trump’s tariff blitz sparks turmoil for green energy sector
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China’s coal plant construction surged last year to the highest level in almost a decade, conflicting with President Xi Jinping’s promise that carbon emissions would peak before 2030, researchers have said.…Continue readingChina’s construction of coal-fired power plants reaches highest in a decade
In launching its World Energy Outlook 2024 (WEO), the IEA stated that “the future of the global energy system is electric.” This follows its assertion that demand for coal, oil and…Continue reading‘’Age of electricity’ to follow looming fossil fuel peak’’: Analysis or Science Fiction?
The iShares Global Clean Energy exchange-traded fund, which holds a broad basket of climate tech stocks, declined 6.5% in the 12 months to November 4, against a 26% rise for the…Continue readingTransition to clean energy falters as green tech funding falls short
BP has put bp Wind Energy, its onshore wind business in the US, estimated to be worth $2bn, up for sale as it trims its renewables business and sells off underperforming…Continue readingBP puts $2bn US onshore wind business up for sale
Solar-panel supply globally is forecast to reach 1,100 gigawatts by the end of this year — three times more than demand, the International Energy Agency wrote in a report released in…Continue readingChina has flooded the market with so many solar panels that people are using them as garden fencing
Chinese manufacturers seem to have made too many solar panels, according to the US, the European Union, and their allies. They’re now calling on Beijing to rein in the overcapacity of…Continue readingChina made so many solar panels that even its own grid can’t support all the energy produced
Germany’s greenhouse gas emissions dropped by one-tenth last year as renewable energy grew in importance, the use of coal and gas diminished and economic pressures weighed on businesses and consumers. Germany…Continue readingGerman greenhouse gas emissions dropped sharply last year
Vast swaths of the United States are at risk of running short of power as electricity-hungry data centers and clean-technology factories proliferate around the country, leaving utilities and regulators grasping for…Continue readingAmid explosive demand, America is running out of power
For the first time, clean energy in the United States is at the same price as energy from burning fossil fuels thanks to policy measures. The report found that electric vehicle…Continue readingWhat’s slowing down America’s clean energy transition? It’s not the cost
It is the first time the previously unknown biodiversity of the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ), a mineral-rich area of the ocean floor that spans 1.7m sq miles between Hawaii and Mexico in…Continue readingMore than 5,000 new species discovered in Pacific deep-sea mining hotspot
Residents have watched ruefully for years as solar plants crept over the horizon, bringing noise and pollution that’s eroding a way of life in their desert refuge. Kevin Emmerich worked for…Continue readingHow solar farms took over the California desert: ‘An oasis has become a dead sea’
The proposed US goal to double electricity transmission lines and build a separate electric vehicle charging network while also expanding solar and wind production to move to 100% renewable generation is,…Continue readingThe squeeze on powering the open road
Apocalypse investors are pushing fake climate solutions on us that are making climate change worse.Continue readingWe are ‘greening’ ourselves to extinction
Unless Australia reduces its energy consumption, a recent study finds it’ll be almost impossible for renewable energy to replace fossil fuels by 2050. This is what’s required to reach our net-zero emissions target.…Continue readingCutting energy consumption key to replacing fossil fuels with renewables