Clean energy has a tipping point, and 87 countries have reached it
Tom Randall – Bloomberg Green, 10/18/22
How fast is the world switching to renewables? 87 countries now draw at least 5% of their electricity from renewables. The U.S hit 5% in 2011 and surged past 20% renewable electricity last year. Bloomberg Green has identified tipping points for 10 clean-energy technologies, and analyzed which countries have crossed these thresholds and how quickly their markets have expanded once they were reached.
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How South Korea, France and Italy are using the COVID-19 response to fight climate change
Umair Irfan – Vox, 6/8/20
With clear roads, clear skies, oil prices plummeting, businesses needing bailouts, and political capital to spend, countries like South Korea, Italy, and France have decided that the pandemic response is an opportunity to rethink energy, infrastructure, industry, and government in ways to cut pollution and reduce emissions contributing to climate change…
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Solar’s future is insanely cheap
Ramez Naam – Blog, 5/14/20
Over the past decade, Ramez Naam has made forecasts about the future costs of clean energy technologies, including solar. In this post, he explains that Solar has plunged in price faster than anyone – including he – predicted…
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Climate change and coronavirus: Five charts about the biggest carbon crash
Matt McGrath – BBC News, 5/6/20
We’re living through the biggest carbon crash ever recorded. No war, no recession, no previous pandemic has had such a dramatic impact on emissions of CO2 over the past century as Covid-19 has in a few short months. But even though we will see a massive fall this year, the concentrations of CO2 that are in the atmosphere and warming our planet won’t stabilise until the world reaches net-zero…
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America’s renewable energy sources produced more electricity than coal every day for 40 days straight
Jason Murdock – Newsweek, 5/5/20
Renewable sources including solar, wind and hydropower generated more electricity than coal-based plants every single day in April, a new report says. Analysis based on data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), said the finding marks a major “milestone” in an energy transition that is now underway…
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Study: wind and solar can power most of the United States
John Abraham – The Guardian, 3/26/18
Wind, solar, and storage could meet 90–100% of America’s electricity needs according to a paper published in the journal Energy and Environmental Science. The authors analyzed 36 years of hourly weather data (1980–2015) in the US…
How to Cut U.S. Emissions Faster? Do What These Countries Are Doing.
Brad Plumer and Blacki Migliozzi – New York Times, 2/
The United States is reducing its greenhouse gas emissions far too slowly to help avert the worst effects of global warming. But what would happen if the country adopted seven of the most ambitious climate policies already in place around the world?
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