As Ukraine Eyes A Green Energy Plan, Russia Attacks…Coal?
Advocates for Ukraine’s green energy transition had their case underscored by the latest barrage of Russian missiles.
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Unleashing The Energy Storage Market in Chile
By: Paulo Castro, Wärtsilä
The Energy Revolution in 5 Charts
RMI experts Sam Butler-Sloss and Kingsmill Bond distill the energy transition down to five crucial concepts.
Low Carbon Energy Tech Is The Key To Achieving Paris Agreement Goals
A new report indicates that it is feasible to realize below 2 degrees Celsius of global warming — that is, if governments and companies pursue a faster transition to clean energy innovation.
We Can Have (Just About) Everything We Want For Energy & The Climate
The only things we have to give up are killing people and wrecking the environment. Okay, let’s start with a list of the things we would really like to have for energy and the climate in the year 2050. For many CleanTechnica readers, the list of things we want to … [continued]
The Geopolitics of the Energy Transformation: The Hydrogen Factor
In this piece, I will attempt to summarize and paraphrase a comprehensive and detailed report, The Geopolitics of the Energy Transformation: The Hydrogen Factor, from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). For a full understanding, the reader is urged to study the report in full. Based on two surveys, the … [continued]
Mine Workers Union Announces Conditional Support For Clean Energy Transition
The United Mine Workers of America, the country’s largest coal miners’ union, will support a “true energy transition” away from coal and fossil fuels that includes jobs for “anybody that loses their job because of a transition in this country,” Cecil Roberts, the UMWA president, said Monday. The union’s support, … [continued]
Energy Transition Startups Shake Up The Business World
The shift to a low-carbon future is turning the economy inside out. Policy has a crucial role to play, but ultimately it is businesses that will make the energy transition happen. In Energiewende home country Germany, many startups are at the forefront of transformation by bringing novel business ideas to market and by snatching market share from incumbents in sectors such as renewables, heating, or mobility.
New Book — Consumers, Prosumers, Prosumagers — Reveals Dramatic Changes Coming
In Consumers, prosumers, prosumagers – How service innovations will disrupt the utility business model, Fereidoon Sioshansi helps readers grasp the spirit of the times, the importance of the stakes and the uncertainty of the outcomes. The 19 essays, written by experts in their respective fields, in this 550-page book, are divided into three parts.
Cultivating An Emergent Order In The Energy System
Everything — 9 to 5 jobs, flat rate energy bills, three-car garages — is organized according to the misconception that fossil fuels will always be around to provide energy exactly at our convenience. The challenge of embracing renewable energy is just as much mental as it is technical. It requires ditching the dominant industrial cognitive paradigm that still persists in an age where the transition away from fossil fuels use is imperative.
