Category: clean energy
Australia should embrace the opportunity to become a renewable energy power. If we don’t act now, with the global energy transition gathering pace, Australia could be exposed to a hostile international energy environment with profound economic, security and diplomatic consequences.
Source: We could be a superpower: 3 ways Australia can take advantage of the changing geopolitics of energy
Victoria has powered its electricity grid with 50 per cent renewable energy for the first time, well ahead of state government projections for the transition to clean energy.
Victoria’s grid runs on 50 per cent renewable energy for first time
The state’s energy crisis didn’t come out of nowhere: It took decades of deregulation to make it happen.
Deconstructed: The Roots of the Texas Energy Crisis
It is crucial to an understanding of the global consequences of the coronavirus pandemic to consider the transition to alternative energy sources for the benefit of future generations. Covid-19 is affecting people all over the world, but a year ago it was just another public health issue. That has all changed, and it actually affects every aspect of our lives as individuals and as nations.
Will the Pandemic help Shift the world from Oil to Green Energy?
It’s not hard to guess what this government has in mind (ODT
Proponents of renewable energy raised concerns that using hydrogen to store fossil fuel-generated energy could support the coal sector and prolong the operation of the nation’s ageing fleet of coal-fired power stations.
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Safety is the key gateway for securing a social licence for the hydrogen economy, says Chief Scientist, Dr Alan Finkel.
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Battlelines drawn over Australia’s hydrogen ‘fork in the road’
ACT Energy Minister Shane Rattenbury argued before the meeting that Australia faced a “fork in the road” that could set the direction of hydrogen as either a forward-looking renewables industry or a mechanism to “prop up” coal.
via Hydrogen stimulus package to power Australian energy exports
A project on the scale of transforming the energy system will create jobs – many jobs – which is perhaps the economic measure of most importance to the citizenry.
Research from me and others shows that fully renewable electric grids are feasible with current technology at current prices; barriers to using renewable electricity are more political and cultural than technological or economic.
via A Politics of Hope: How we Can go completely to Green Energy
The clear result is that both greenhouse gas emissions and electricity prices are now surging to new highs under the Coalition and the last six years of policy chaos have seen households and businesses bearing the cost of poor system planning.
via Angus Taylor’s absence from Clean Energy Summit displays lack of leadership
“The benefit is simple in that it is very large-scale base load [continuous] energy production, with zero greenhouse gas emissions and no long-life radioactive waste.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-11-15/china-attempts-to-create-an-artificial-sun/10495536
Solar photovoltaic and wind power are rapidly getting cheaper and more abundant – so much so that they are on track to entirely supplant fossil fuels worldwide within two decades, with the time frame depending mostly on politics. The protestation from some politicians that we need to build new coal stations sounds rather quaint.
via Solar PV and wind are on track to replace all coal, oil and gas within two decades
Clean energy employs an incredible 9.8 million people worldwide. Here’s how three countries – the US, China, and Germany – are making clean energy work at home.
The United StatesEven with the White House’s vocal support for all things fossil fuels, clean energy is powering more and more of the US economy every year. And it’s not just happening in California and New York – thanks to the power of market trends, the clean energy revolution is taking hold even in states like Texas and Iowa. Here’s the scoop:
via Booming Business: How Three Countries Are Putting Renewable Energy to Work | Climate Reality
Last Thursday, one of the biggest coal units in Australia, Loy Yang A 3, tripped without warning at 1.59am, with the sudden loss of 560MW and causing a slump in frequency on the network.
What happened next has stunned electricity industry insiders and given food for thought over the near to medium term future of the grid, such was the rapid response of the Tesla big battery to an event that happened nearly 1,000km away.
Even before the Loy Yang A unit had finished tripping, the 100MW/129MWh had responded, injecting 7.3MW into the network to help arrest a slump in frequency that had fallen below 49.80Hertz.
via Tesla big battery outsmarts lumbering coal units after Loy Yang trips : RenewEconomy
Can depending on consumer-generated panels do the trick?
Source: France plans to double Solar & Wind to 40% of Electricity by 2030
Rush to Electric Vehicles in Detroit, Beijing
Source: The Gasoline Car will be History before you Know it | Informed Comment
Two tidal turbines in part of a Scottish firth are reported to have generated 700 MWh of electricity in August.
Source: Tidal turbines in firth ‘set world record’ for production – BBC News
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – 1. The Christian Science Monitor says that in 2016, US solar …
Source: Green Energy Jobs: Top 7 Pieces of Rare Good News for US Workers on Labor Day | Informed Comment
In fact, the market for electric cars is growing faster than previously thought, as the lithium-ion batteries that power them have become cheaper and more accessible. Electric vehicles are expected to make up 54 percent of the worldwide new car sales by 2040, according to a forecast released Thursday by Bloomberg New Energy Finance. That’s up from 35 percent projected last year by the data firm in its annual outlook, a serious boost for advocates who say the technology is critical to lowering urban pollution and slowing the rate of climate change.
A company called Zero Mass Water has created a special solar-like panel that creates clean, drinkable water from the air. You can now install them on your home or office.I’ve drank a lot of water from bottles, but it was never created like this.I’m on the rooftop of a building in Santa Monica on an overcast day, checking out solar panels from a company called Zero Mass Water. These are not just your typical energy creating panels – they are busy pulling water out of the air.
Source: These Solar Panels Generate Drinking Water From the Air | KTLA
Donald Trump’s energy policy is doomed to failure as it comes into collision with economic reality.
Source: The march of renewable energy is unstoppable — even by President Trump
Some new form of madness must surely have taken hold when we’re being asked to ponder whether or not the Clean Energy Finance Corporation should fund ‘clean coal’, or cleaner coal, power stations.
Source: Why can’t the government understand there’s no such thing as clean coal?
The argument for renewable energy is now a purely economic one – and the move away from coal will only pick up speed
Solar power is becoming the cheapest way to generate electricity, according to leading analysts. Data produced by Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) showed the cost of solar in 58 lower-income countries – including China, Brazil and India – had fallen to about a third of levels in 2010 and was now slightly cheaper than wind energy.
Source: Solar power becoming world’s cheapest form of electricity production, analysts say | The Independent
The Tree | – – As fossil fuels fight loud and clumsy battles for continued dominance in countries such as …
Source: Sell that Oil Stock! Electric Cars are Here | Informed Comment
Malcolm Turnbull says he has lots of solar panels. But the Coalition’s hatred of renewable energy isn’t so much about personal views as about the cash.
Source: One graph that proves why the government hates renewable energy – Crikey
A groundbreaking greenhouse that relies on sunlight and sea water to grow tomatoes officially opens next week, 300 kilometres north of Adelaide.
More than nine out of every 10 people on the planet live in areas where air pollution breaches official safety limits – and millions of people are dying as a result, according to new research by the World Health Organisation (WHO).
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The California legislature worked on a carbon dioxide emissions reduction bill …
By Moha Ennaji | ( Project Syndicate) | – – FEZ – The global oil-price bust has devastated economies across …
Source: Can Morocco Create a New Middle East through Green Energy? | Informed Comment
Disastrous methane leak shows there is no such thing as a clean fossil fuel
Source: A ‘Mini-Chernobyl’ in California | Al Jazeera America
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This leak essentially puts 20 million residents at risk.
Source: 65,000% Rise in Radioactivity of Leak Is Tip of Iceberg for Nuclear Plant near NYC
A dream team of tech giants – Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Richard Branson, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Jack Ma from Alibaba, along with a host of international tech leaders – have announced they’re coming together to combat climate change.
Source: Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg And Tech-Giant Supergroup Team Up Against Climate Change | IFLScience
Climate change action has just been given an official round of applause: the International Energy Agency (IEA) has declared that over 26% of the world’s energy supply will come from renewable energy sources by the end of the decade.
Source: One Quarter Of The World Will Be Powered By Renewable Energy By 2020 | IFLScience
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