We’re back with our report on EV sales in Latin America! There are some novelties, but, contrary to my expectations, the distance between the laggards and the leaders is actually increasing: this means that the first part of the report will be full of bad (or, at best, “meh”) news, … [continued]
Time flies. The first half of 2023 has already been over for a while, and the EV transition is accelerating, so we’re bringing news from a region often forgotten when speaking about electric vehicles: Latin America. We will divide this series of articles into three parts: the laggards, the middle … [continued]
In conversation with renewable energy entrepreneurs and enthusiasts throughout South America, the most common response to the question of what needs to be improved is “grid transmission.” This is by no means a uniquely South American problem. There is no continent with a perfect power grid, and investments by the … [continued]
By Juan Diego Celemín Mojica “Passionate for all things Latin American, I’ve been closely following the energy and mobility transitions since they started to be present south of the Equator.” So far, South America has been a laggard in the transition to electric mobility. This, and the fact that the … [continued]
A new report from The Pew Charitable Trusts has shown that investment in and deployment of clean and renewable energies is shifting towards developing nations. The report, Power Shifts—Emerging Clean Energy Markets, shows that investment and deployment of electricity infrastructure is shifting from the industrialized economies of the Northern Hemisphere towards … [continued]
In a week with several big-name renewable energy companies releasing their first quarter earnings reports for 2015, SunEdison has outshone them all. Despite only steady Q1’15 results, SunEdison — the world’s largest renewable energy developer — also announced the acquisition of seven renewable energy portfolios in emerging countries, and the … [continued]
A new report from MAKE Consulting predicts new installed wind power capacity to set records in 2015 and 2016, following an already impressive 2014, reaching 4.8 GW and 5.4 GW respectively. Not only is the Latin America region as a whole expected to set new installation records, but Mexico, Uruguay, … [continued]
Norway’s state-owned power company Statkraft announced earlier in the month that it intends to invest heavily in renewable energy both in Norway and abroad, to the tune of 60 billion kroner, or just over $8 billion USD. The announcement comes following the Norway Government’s decision to bolster the energy company’s equity … [continued]
Turning off my computer at a little after 3 am this morning, I gave a silent thanks to Manuel Pulgar Vidal, the Peruvian environment minister and president of the just-completed 2014 UN COP20 meeting in Lima. Now I’ll be a little louder. Much of the credit for the newest internationally … [continued]
In what may have been the only way to confidently convince Australia’s leadership that they were taking a dramatically wrong turn on environmental and energy policy, global opinion has turned against the country at a time when the climate talks in Lima, Peru, have kept such issues at the top … [continued]
