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Ana Maria Jaller-Makarewicz
Stability of renewables an antidote to the volatility of gas and coal
While volatile energy commodity prices have been sharply increasing globally, renewable technologies have been steadily decreasing. Over the last decade, the cost of electricity from utility-scale solar PV has fallen by 85 percent, concentrating solar power (CSP) by 68 percent, onshore wind by 56 percent and 48 percent for offshore wind, according to the International […]
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Bloomberg Green ($): The world’s biggest owner of publicly traded stocks, Norway’s sovereign-wealth fund, is about to get the political go-ahead to insist that all companies in its portfolio have clear targets for cutting CO2 emissions. Norway’s Labor Party, which this month won elections that focused on the country’s fossil-fuel dependence, has made clear it […]
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S&P Capital IQ ($): Enel SpA announced Sept. 24 plans to triple its renewable energy generation to 145 GW by 2030 up from around 49 GW by 2020, among several commitments made through the company’s participation in a United Nations “High-level Dialogue” convened by U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres. Enel also intends to reduce its scope […]
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E&E News ($): The PennEast pipeline will no longer go forward, the project’s developer announced today, just three months after landing a key win before the Supreme Court. PennEast Pipeline Co. LLC said it did not have the necessary permits to continue with the 116-mile project, which was designed to carry natural gas from Pennsylvania […]
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Reuters: ACWA Power, which is partly owned by Saudi Arabia’s PIF sovereign wealth fund, will look at issuing green bonds starting next year to finance some of its renewable energy projects, its chief executive said on Monday. ACWA Power already has five projects certified for green finance, which together will require just under $10 billion […]
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Renew Economy: Rooftop solar PV has a few important new benchmarks in South Australia, contributing 84.4 per cent of total energy demand on Sunday afternoon, as well as setting a new low for minimum “operational demand”. The 84.4 per cent rooftop solar share was set in a five minute interval at 1.15pm, on a mild […]
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Nikkei Asia ($): Tokio Marine Holdings will stop underwriting and financing new coal mining projects that generate thermal power in Japan and abroad from October, Nikkei has learned, a move likely to be followed by other domestic insurers. Without insurance against accidents, natural disasters, fires and construction-related mishaps, coal miners will find it hard to […]
Melissa Brown, Grant Hauber and Press Release
Implementation challenges could block funding for other equally important high impact clean energy funding strategies
24 September 2021 (IEEFA Asia): In the lead up to the United Nations Climate Change Conference COP26, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) announced a plan to speed up the retirement of high emissions coal-fired power plants in Southeast Asia. This announcement sets the stage for a transformation of the Asian multilateral development bank’s (MDB) role […]
Guest Contributor: Saloni Sachdeva Michael and Press Release
End-of-life solar panels and batteries contain valuable raw materials for the clean energy transition
23 September 2021 (IEEFA India): The adoption of a ‘circular’ approach to managing end-of-life solar photovoltaic (PV) modules, wind blades and batteries would reduce future wastage of the high-value, critical raw materials needed for India’s massive clean energy transition, according to a new report from the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA). The […]
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E&E News ($): The Bureau of Land Management currently has more than 40 renewable energy projects in the permitting pipeline, making significant inroads toward meeting President Biden’s onshore green energy goal, a senior Interior Department official said today. These proposals comprise 23 solar, four wind and five geothermal power projects, as well as five transmission […]
IEEFA: As fossil fuel prices skyrocket globally, renewables grow steadily cheaper
Stability of renewables an antidote to the volatility of gas and coal
While volatile energy commodity prices have been sharply increasing globally, renewable technologies have been steadily decreasing. Over the last decade, the cost of electricity from utility-scale solar PV has fallen by 85 percent, concentrating solar power (CSP) by 68 percent, onshore wind by 56 percent and 48 percent for offshore wind, according to the International […]