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Africa and renewables: the international partnerships bringing 300GW potential to life

January 31, 2019 by Energy Post Premium

Gaining access to energy is vital for Africa's people and national economies so tapping their vast potential for renewables is the obvious solution both for them and the climate. The challenge, as ever, is funding. To solve this, African nations are striking up international partnerships in a bid to unleash the full power of their phenomenal natural assets. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Renewables Tagged With: Africa, decentralised generation, investment, IRENA, off-grid, renewables, solar power, wind

Renpower Ukraine 2019

January 31, 2019 by EuroconventionGlobal Leave a Comment

The 2nd Renewable Energy & Power Infrastructure Investors Conference Register now Program Euroconvention Global is excited to announce the forthcoming RENPOWER Ukraine 2019: The 2nd Renewable Energy & Power Investment Conference  set to take place on January 31st at the Intercontinental Hotel in Kiev. The inaugural edition hosted 150+ participants from 28 countries and was evaluated by all attendees as a cost-effective informative … [Read more...]

Tagged With: Eastern Europe, electricity market, energy efficiency, energy investments, energy law, Environment, infrastructure, renewable energy, solar power, Ukraine, wind energy

Are solar microgrids the future in the developing world?

October 23, 2018 by Meredith Fowlie, Catherine Wolfram and Derek Wolfson

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Setting out to evaluate the real-world performance of solar microgrids in developing countries, a team from the Energy Institute at Haas partnered with startup Gram Power to provide small smart grid systems to unelectrified rural communities in India. While many industry experts see microgrids as important for future electrification, what the team found was that few communities wanted them, and they were difficult to implement and operate. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Policies, Renewables Tagged With: India, microgrid, renewables, smart grids, solar power

Electricity’s future: mostly behind the meter

October 5, 2018 by Fereidoon Sioshansi

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The electricity sector has traditionally taken good care of getting energy from power plants to customer premises. But with the arrival of distributed generation and storage, there is a universe of possibilities on the other side of the meter, writes independent energy expert Fereidoon Sioshansi. “While the industry counts the billions it has invested in assets upstream of the meter, there is probably as much if not more on the customer side.” … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Markets, Renewables Tagged With: behind-the-meter, blockchain, electricity market, energy storage, solar power

Flexible printed solar cells – a new manufacturing frontier?

September 24, 2018 by John Mathews

Paul Dastoor of the University of Newcastle on CHEP's rooftop covered with the new printed flexible solar cells.

The University of Newcastle in Australia has unveiled a 200m2 rooftop solar array made from innovative flexible and printed solar cells that could further revolutionise the global use and manufacturing industry of renewables. According to Professor John Mathews of Macquarie University in Australia, this could be a giant step forward for solar cells. Courtesy Global Green Shift blog … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Innovations, Renewables Tagged With: energy transition, renewables, solar, solar power

How the micro-grid solar solution can realize electrification in remote regions

September 12, 2018 by Long Sheng

Promoted content - Micro-grids (solar PV and storage) are ideal to achieve rapid electrification in remote areas, but their implementation still faces many obstacles, writes Long Sheng of Huawei. The Chinese company has supported the Ministry of Energy in Cameroon to build a successful micro-grid solution. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Promoted content, Renewables Tagged With: energy storage, grid, microgrid, smart grids, solar power

An evening with ecomodernist Michael Shellenberger (or: a defence of nuclear power you have not heard before)

September 11, 2018 by Karel Beckman

Pro-nuclear activist Michael Shellenberger, founder of the California-based global citizens movement Environmental Progress (“not paid by the nuclear industry”) was in Amsterdam recently, where he gave a very personal “Ecomodernist” defense of why nuclear power is good and how it should be supported. “It is about protecting the natural environment by concentrating human activity.” This article was first published on Energy Post Weekly. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Nuclear Tagged With: climate change, electricity market, energy efficiency, energy security, energy transition, EU energy policy, financing, nuclear energy, renewables, solar power, US energy policy, wind power

DNV GL’s Energy Transition Outlook shows massive shift of investment from oil and gas into power lines

September 10, 2018 by Karel Beckman

The global energy transition will lead to a massive expansion of power lines at all voltage levels as well as a steep growth in the number of transformers and substations in the electricity system. This is one of the major new findings of the second edition of the Energy Transition Outlook, the annual flagship publication of global technical consultancy DNV GL. As a result, grid costs will triple, yet this cost explosion is offset by cost … [Read more...]

Filed Under: *, Energy Outlooks, Oil, Gas & Coal Tagged With: carbon bubble, CCS, climate change, coal power, electric cars, electricity market, energy efficiency, energy security, energy storage, energy transition, energy2030, EU energy policy, financing, gas pipelines, geopolitics, grid, infrastructure, natural gas, nuclear energy, oil, renewables, smart grids, solar power, wind power

Estonia needs a plan – and support – to get rid of its dirty oil shale

September 3, 2018 by Teet Randma

The need for a transition to sustainable energy is widely felt in Estonia, but after twenty years of talking, Estonia’s dirty oil shale industry is still carrying on. In fact, thanks to lower taxes, a boom in oil shale mining is expected. Estonian Green Movement, a member of Bankwatch, recently presented the national parliament with a proposal for a strategic oil shale exit plan. According to Teet Randma, national campaigner for Bankwatch in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: *, Energy, Oil, Gas & Coal Tagged With: biomass, climate change, electricity market, energy security, energy transition, EU energy policy, EU ETS, financing, renewables, solar power

Tipping point: new wind and solar competitive with existing coal and gas

August 29, 2018 by Dave Jones

€20/ton carbon prices in combination with high coal and gas prices have created a new tipping point in Europe, writes Dave Jones of UK-based think tank Sandbag. For the first time, new onshore wind and solar can compete with existing coal and gas plants. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Oil, Gas & Coal, Renewables Tagged With: carbon trading, climate change, coal power, electricity market, energy transition, EU energy policy, EU ETS, financing, natural gas, renewables, solar power, wind power

Li-ion’s end of life is not the dead end you think

August 20, 2018 by Jason Deign

Considerably more batteries are being recycled than most studies show, reveals a new report. Not in the EU or US, however, but in Asia – China in particular. What is more, the market for lithium-ion recycling is likely to grow rapidly. This wil change the face of the entire battery industry and even the energy industry. Jason Deign of Energy Storage Report has the story. Article courtesy of Energy Storage Report. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Innovations, Renewables Tagged With: batteries, electric cars, electricity market, energy storage, energy transition, renewables, solar power

Subsidy-free solar: how a solar farm in southeast England could bring a new dawn for renewable energy

August 15, 2018 by Alastair Buckley

The largest solar power plant ever proposed in the UK will be reviewed by the secretary of state within the next six months. The plan is for Cleve Hill to generate the lowest cost electricity on the UK network without needing subsidies to stay afloat. If it succeeds, it would usher in a new dawn for renewable energy in the UK, writes Alastair Buckley of the University of Sheffield. Courtesy The Conversation. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Renewables Tagged With: climate change, electricity market, energy transition, financing, grid, renewables, smart grids, solar power

The celebrity couple: intermittent renewables and electric cars

August 14, 2018 by Schalk Cloete

Even though storing intermittent wind and solar power in electric car batteries sounds attractive, this will be impractical and expensive in practice, writes Schalk Cloete. Electric cars have much clearer synergies with baseload power plants, while excess wind and solar power is better suited to H2/synfuel production.  … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Renewables, Transport and energy Tagged With: climate change, electric cars, electricity market, energy transition, renewables, solar power, sustainable mobility, transport, wind power

Energiewende enters a new phase – how is it performing?

August 7, 2018 by Schalk Cloete

The Energiewende is proceeding ahead of schedule with high grid reliability, writes researcher Schalk Cloete. However, costs are much higher than originally planned, while CO2emissions are stagnating. According to Cloete, wind/solar market shares have now reached the point where large grid expansion projects become critical. One problem is that the net value of new wind/solar is approaching zero as market value declines and integration costs … [Read more...]

Filed Under: *, Energy, EU Policy, Renewables Tagged With: climate change, coal power, electricity market, Energiewende, energy transition, EU energy policy, grid, infrastructure, solar power, wind power

How rapidly can we transition to 100% renewable electricity?

June 29, 2018 by Mark Diesendorf

Science tells us that, to avoid devastating climate change, we must rapidly cut greenhouse gas emissions to zero. How fast is possible, asks Mark Diesendorf  of the Cooperative Research Centre for Low Carbon at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Australia. He believes the sceptics may be wrong. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Climate policy, Energy, Energy efficiency, Markets, Nuclear, Oil, Gas & Coal, Policies, Renewables, Transport and energy Tagged With: carbon bubble, climate change, coal power, electric cars, electricity market, Energiewende, energy efficiency, energy storage, energy transition, infrastructure, natural gas, nuclear energy, renewables, solar power, sustainable mobility, wind power

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