June 6, 2019 by IRENA

95% of a car’s time is spent parked. It’s why parked and plugged-in EVs could be the battery banks of the future, stabilising grids powered by wind and solar. More than 1bn EVs could be on the road by 2050, their 14 TWh of EV batteries dwarfing the projected 9 TWh of stationary batteries, according to the IRENA report “Innovation Outlook: smart charging for electric vehicles”. Smart charging could therefore save billions of dollars in grid … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Transport and energy Tagged With: electricity, Enel, EVs, grid, Nissan, Nuvve, storage, Stromnetz

January 15, 2019 by IRENA

A new report by the Global Commission on the Geopolitics of Energy Transformation says the new energy age will profoundly reshape relations between states and regions. It will bring “A New World” of power, security, energy independence and prosperity. It will also reshape the geopolitical map, just as fossil-fuels have done over the last 200 years. No nation will be unaffected. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Climate policy, Energy, Oil, Gas & Coal, Renewables Tagged With: Africa, Americas, Asia, Energy, Europe, fossil-fuels, geopolitics, ghg, IRENA, minerals, renewable, solar, transition, wind