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Volvo delivers first heavy electric truck to Africa; Volvo FE Electric for refuse collection in Rabat, Morocco

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Volvo Trucks has delivered its first heavy electric truck to Rabat, Morocco. Morocco has ambitious climate goals, based on large investments in renewable energy. The country is a leader in solar power and home to the world’s biggest concentrated solar power facility, Noor Quarzazate, located 200 km southeast of Marrakech.

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Morocco Is A Green Leader & Might Get EU Hydrogen Balance Right

CleanTechnica EVs

Why exactly would it be beneficial to the climate for Morocco to take renewable electricity, make hydrogen and products from hydrogen, and ship them to Europe at significant loss of energy so that the EU can achieve climate emissions reductions?

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Azerbaijan Plans Caspian-Black Sea Energy Corridor

Cars That Think

Azerbaijan next week will garner much of the attention of the climate tech world, and not just because it will host COP29 , the United Nation’s giant annual climate change conference. The Morocco-U.K. GW over 3,800 km from Morocco to England. Long-distance lines would carry up to 1.5 Power Project would send 3.6

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BloombergNEF: clean energy investment in developing nations slumps as financing in China slows; coal burn surges to record high

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New investment in wind, solar, and other clean energy projects in developing nations dropped sharply in 2018, largely due to a slowdown in China. This is due to wind and solar projects generating only when natural resources are available while oil, coal, and gas plants can potentially produce around the clock. billion and $2.7

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Fusion Fuel Green partners with CCC to develop green hydrogen demonstrator plants in Middle East

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The Middle East represents a big opportunity and a very promising region for us, given the high levels of solar exposure, strong appetite for green hydrogen projects, and strategic geographic position between Europe and Asia. In this regard, green hydrogen is currently in a similar position to that of solar power a decade ago.

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This Tesla driver just finished an electric around-the-world trip. For the fourth time.

Baua Electric

They were joined at times by other drivers who took on parts of the route, like a Kia Niro which joined to Morocco, but these two cars were the only finishers of the entire circumnavigation. Charge your electric vehicle at home using rooftop solar panels. Cooperation is the answer, not isolation.

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The world’s longest land and subsea interconnector just came online

Baua Electric

Katie Jackson, the president of National Grid Ventures, which runs National Grid’s interconnector business, said: As we deploy more wind power to meet our climate and energy security targets, connections to our neighboring countries will play a vital role [in] increasing [the] security of supply and reducing prices for consumers.

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