I was going through the new Integrating Solar and Wind: Global experience and emerging challenges report from the International Energy Agency (IEA), and I noticed an interesting graph. Well, there are at least a few interesting charts, but this one chart is something I don’t think I’ve ever seen. The … [continued]
New IEA report offers first-of-its-kind global stocktake of efforts to integrate variable renewables across 50 power systems, identifying best practices and key challenges. As solar PV and wind grow at an accelerated pace around the world, governments must act to ensure that they are well integrated into power systems — … [continued]
One way to predict where the future is headed is to look at what human society is investing in. 100 years ago, we were investing a ton into fossil fuel development, and we then burnt up a lot of fossil fuels. Even 15 years ago, human society was investing more … [continued]
In another major step towards making more IEA data freely available and accessible, the IEA has upgraded the Countries and Regions section of its website by adding a comprehensive range of statistics and information at the global, regional and national levels. The revamped country pages are the latest example of the … [continued]
CERAWeek 2024 featured an address by Aramco CEO Amin Nasser in which he called a transition away from fossil fuels “a fantasy.”:
The unstoppable rise of batteries is leading to a domino effect that puts half of global fossil fuel demand at risk. Battery demand is growing exponentially, driven by a domino effect of adoption that cascades from country to country and from sector to sector. This battery domino effect is set … [continued]
An international partnership between Norwegian and U.S. researchers could help modernize the world’s biggest source of renewable energy—hydropower—and answer the question: How can hydropower help fight climate change? Photo by Bryan Bechtold, NREL
Why U.S. and Norway Experts Are Partnering Up To Explore How This Renewable Could Help the World Transition to Clean Energy When Dany Tome first arrived at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s (NREL’s) campus in Golden, Colorado, he did not notice the golden grasses waving from the hillsides or the … [continued]
ChatGPT & DALL-E generated panoramic image of a mosaic representing the diverse societal support for renewable energy.
To keep the Earth from getting hotter, more renewable energy will be required — quite a bit more according to several sources.
The latest report from the IEA finds some reasons to be hopeful that humans won’t turn the world into a baked potato.
The Lava Fire near Christmas Valley and Ft. Fort Rock, Oregon was ignited by lightning. Photo by Bureau of Land Management.
The two biggest clean technology trends we cover here on CleanTechnica are the solar power revolution (solar PV adoption) and the electric vehicle revolution (EV adoption). I noticed an interesting graph in a new International Energy Agency (IEA) report, and there’s not much to say beyond what the graph says, … [continued]
