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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

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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

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The country is promoting a grand, multi-nation plan to generate renewable electricity in the Caucasus region and send it thousands of kilometers west, under the Black Sea, and into energy–hungry Europe. The Morocco-U.K. GW over 3,800 km from Morocco to England. Power Project would send 3.6 GW of offshore and onshore wind.

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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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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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More than 50 percent of MoUs signed in Vibrant Gujarat are green | Autocar Professional

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Semiconductors, green hydrogen, renewable energy, electronics, MSMEs, and electric mobility are some of the focus areas for the summit. We are constructing the world’s largest Renewable Energy Park at Khavda and investing Rs 2 lakh crore in Gujarat.

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IEA: Estonia is pioneering technologies for more efficient and cleaner use of oil shale

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Renewable energy is another solution. Renewables, particularly biomass for heat, provided 14.6% The European Union Renewable Energy Directive calls for sourcing one-quarter of Estonia’s gross final energy consumption from renewable sources. There are also significant reserves in Jordan, Morocco, Sweden, Syria and Turkey.

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