According to multiple sources, Tesla’s Elon Musk is negotiating the setting up of production in Indonesia. Indonesia has massive nickel and some cobalt reserves, excess vehicle building capacity, and a great need to move forward in the rEVolution. It is the second largest vehicle producer in ASEA (behind Thailand), and … [continued]
Green steel needs to overcome an iron ore supply chain bottleneck, and the startup Electra has a solution.
Green hydrogen production is accelerating, and according to IEEFA is approaching light speed. “Australia is clearly showing the world’s electricity market the future. On sunny days — 10am to 3.30pm daily — electricity prices are now negative. EVs, batteries and pumped hydro can absorb some of this negative cost electricity, … [continued]
The fossil fuel industry is finding it increasingly harder to obtain funding for its operations.
Nat Geo TV’s Savage Kingdom is the life-and-death backdrop for a death match between renewable energy and coal power in Botswana.
A new round of $187 million for energy storage and energy efficiency R&D will squeeze coal out of power plants and factories, too.
The renewable energy transition gathers steam as global investors ditch coal power, but natural gas and nuclear stakeholders want a piece of the pie, too.
IEEFA predicts that electricity from renewables — hydro, solar, and wind — will surpass that from coal for the first time in the US this April and May. Part of that is short term trends and part of it is longer term changes in the market driven by falling prices for renewables.
The latest S&P Global Market Intelligence data shows that a total of 49 gigawatts (GW) of new power generation capacity will be added in the United States in 2019, but will also see the retirement of nearly 6 GW of coal.
As the year draws to a close and Australia’s renewable energy industry celebrates a surprisingly strong year — surprising, especially considering the general lack of support from the Federal Government — one could be forgiven for wondering why a literal “island nation” as big as Australia hasn’t turned its eyes offshore for its electricity generation.
