The new energy reality: 1 kWh of battery is cheaper than a barrel of oil The EU is fiercely debating the future of the automotive industry and how far the transition to battery electric cars will be slowed down. Last time we had this debate back in 2022, Europe was … [continued]
Ingmar Rentzhog of We Don’t Have Time wrote recently that investors have already begun the transition to clean energy.
As I started reading Steve Hanley’s article last night about the Trump administration putting pressure on the International Energy Agency (IEA) to focus only on fossil fuels and stop tracking and reporting on renewable energy, my blood started to boil and I was driven to write this article. The level … [continued]
One thing is clear: Either you are in lockstep with the US pro-fossil fuel energy policy, or you are the enemy and will pay the price. Created in the 1970s after the OPEC oil embargoes, the International Energy Agency was designed to collect data on who was producing oil and … [continued]
A month ago, media all over the internet went crazy repeating the following headline (or a similar one) over and over: “IEA scraps Peak Oil, says oil demand will continue growing until 2050.” All this oil-positive hype was a result of the IEA’s World Energy Outlook for 2025. This report … [continued]
Renewable energy will overtake coal to become the world’s top source of electricity “by 2026 at the latest”, according to new forecasts from the International Energy Agency (IEA). The rise of renewables is being driven by extremely rapid growth in wind and solar output, which topped 4,000 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 and will … [continued]
I’ve got one more highlight to share from the Snapshot of Global PV Markets report recently published by the International Energy Agency’s Photovoltaic Power Systems Program (IEA PVPS). This one was buried on the last page. The graph shows that solar PV power and electric vehicles (EVs) have been growing together … [continued]
Diving into the Snapshot of Global PV Markets report from the International Energy Agency’s Photovoltaic Power Systems Program (IEA PVPS) earlier today, I found a handful of interesting highlights. A few more were buried toward the end. We’ve already reported on the fact that solar power now dominates new power capacity … [continued]
"Renewable Energy Development in the California Desert" by mypubliclands is licensed under CC BY 2.0.
To hear Donald Trump brag about it, you’d think that coal is an energy savior. After all, he has recently signed four executive orders aimed at increasing coal production and saving coal-burning power plants from retirement. Yet what the Trump administration isn’t admitting is that the growth of solar has … [continued]
New IEA report highlights Kenya’s strong progress in expanding access to electricity and clean cooking driven by robust policies and targeted infrastructure investments Kenya is on track to achieve universal electricity access by 2030, as ambitious implementation plans and electrification using clean energy technologies position the country as an economic … [continued]
