Will the 1.5-degree target remain within reach? Numerous emerging countries are scrapping their plans for new coal-fired power plants, a new study determines. However, there is still one condition to be met.
Japanese utilities are exploring retrofitting their existing coal power plants to enable co-firing of coal with ammonia to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. This is unlikely to become an economically viable path to reduce power sector emissions, a report of BloombergNEF (BNEF)states.
RWE has installed its first floating PV system on the former cooling water lake of a coal-fired power plant in the Netherlands. The generator is part of an overall concept to turn the former coal-fired power plant into a renewable energy site.
The impossible has happened. The imperial aggressor Putin invaded Ukraine and is dreaming of a re-established Great Russian Tsarist Empire, without regard for human lives, the rights of sovereign, democratic states and international rules.
Many people in Germany and around the world are committed to the energy transition. Many decisions and developments in climate protection are going too slowly for them. What really drives the climate activists up the wall is when contemporaries claim that a climate dictatorship is already in place in Germany - or that we are on the way to it. A guest article by Thomas Giesinger from Friends of the Earth.
DNV’s pathway to net zero says North America and Europe must be carbon neutral by 2042, whereas Indian Subcontinent is set to be a net emitter by 2050.
Building and operating new utility-scale solar PV is cheaper than running existing coal and gas-fired plants in China, India and across most of Europe according to BloombergNEF.
Environment ministers of the major industrialised countries (G7) agree to end state funding of unabated coal power plants, by the end of this year.
The German based utility EnBW is aiming to halve CO2 emissions by 2030 and to phase out coal-based electricity generation by 2035 at the latest.
A coordinated phase out from lignite in Germany, Poland, and the Czech Republic favours power consumers and climate, according to a new study.
The Covid-19 pandemic led to a fall in electricity demand following authorities’ preference of electricity generation over renewable sources. This meant that coal-based generation saw an impressive contraction in its share within the electricity mix. Data and analytics company GlobalData anticipates that the generation mix is unlikely to roll back to its pre-Covid-19 state as demand is likely to remain low for the foreseeable future.
