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Inside the Global Race to Tap Potent Offshore Wind

Cars That Think

One day soon, a platform 50 times as large may float in the deep waters of the North Sea, buoying up a massive wind turbine to harvest the steady, strong breezes there. About an hour’s ride up the coast, full-scale 3,000-tonne behemoths already float in Aberdeen Bay, capturing enough wind energy to electrify nearly 35,000 Scottish households.

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Renewables to overtake coal as largest global electricity source in 2025

Teslarati

During the COP28 climate conference held in Dubai last month, world leaders from over 130 national governments agreed to set a goal to triple world renewable energy installations by 2030. Global solar PV prices declined by nearly 50 percent year over year in 2023, and the IEA expects cost reductions and accelerated deployment to continue.

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Study finds future-fuel demand for shipping industry equal to entire current global production of renewables

Green Car Congress

A new study , commissioned by the International Chamber of Shipping and prepared by Professor Dr. Stefan Ulreich from Germany’s University of Applied Sciences, finds that the global shipping industry will require the equivalent of the world’s entire current renewable energy demand in order to replace fossil fuel use. MWh to €156.40/MWh

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Visiting Chinese trade official warns EU on greentech probe – ET Auto

Baua Electric

He cited the EU’s investigations into Chinese electric cars, solar panels and wind turbines as examples. Wang Wentao is traveling through Europe for discussions about the European Commission’s investigation into whether China’s electric vehicle industry has benefited from unfair subsidies.

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Good news – the world has a real chance of achieving its goal of tripling renewables by 2030

Baua Electric

The world added 50% more renewable capacity in 2023 than in 2022 –and that means it has a real chance of achieving the goal set by governments at the COP28 climate change conference of tripling global capacity by 2030. 2024 will be the year renewables change from a nuisance for the fossil fuel industry to an existential threat.

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A Skeptic’s Take on Beaming Power to Earth from Space

Cars That Think

The accelerating buildout of solar farms on Earth is already hitting speed bumps, including public pushback against the large tracts of land required and a ballooning backlog of requests for new transmission lines and grid connections. The glamorous vision has inspired numerous futuristic proposals.

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IEA report calls for no investment in new fossil fuel supply and end to sales of ICE cars by 2035

Green Car Congress

The pathway calls for annual additions of solar PV to reach 630 GW by 2030, and those of wind power to reach 390 GW. For solar PV, it is equivalent to installing the world’s current largest solar park roughly every day. Solar is the world’s single largest source of total energy supply.

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