Electrek Green Energy Brief

In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):

• New research analysis says that we are headed for a large increase of EVs by 2040.
• The University of California has divested from all fossil fuels.
• Here’s what happened when the Senate questioned the EPA head about rollbacks yesterday.

Expand
Expanding
Close

In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):

• Your EV may have zero tailpipe emissions, but what about the electricity you charge it with?
• EPA head Andrew Wheeler will be grilled in the Senate today for rollbacks during the pandemic.
• Spain to cut emissions to net zero by 2050.

Expand
Expanding
Close

In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):

• The Trump administration has ended a rent holiday for solar and wind projects on federal lands.
• EY’s latest study predicts a strong recovery for the renewables sector from coronavirus.
• Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden says he’d kill the Keystone XL pipeline.

Expand
Expanding
Close

EY has published its annual “Renewable Energy Country Attractiveness Index,” which “ranks the top 40 countries in the world on the attractiveness of their renewable energy investment and deployment opportunities.” There have been some interesting shifts in the Top 10.

Expand
Expanding
Close

In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):

• GM will power its largest site, which is in Tennessee, with solar energy sourced from the TVA.
• New Jersey’s largest solar plant has been completed.
• The Mexican government cites the pandemic as a reason for rolling back renewables growth.

Expand
Expanding
Close

In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):

• South Dakota’s Rapid City cement plant is adopting wind power.
• The US economy lost nearly 600,000 clean energy jobs in March and April.
• Poland, which is still heavily dependent on coal, added 236MW of solar in March and April.

Expand
Expanding
Close

In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):

• The WEF has analyzed the renewable energy transition of 115 countries. Here’s who’s leading.
• US CO2 emissions are expected to decrease by 11% in 2020.
• More than 300 businesses are calling for climate solutions in US economic recovery plans.

Expand
Expanding
Close

India, the world’s fifth-largest economy, has had its first year-on-year reduction in CO2 emissions in 40 years, according to a study by the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) for Carbon Brief. This is due to an economic slowdown as a result of coronavirus and the growth of green energy.

Expand
Expanding
Close

In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):

• The $1 billion Gemini project solar farm in Nevada has been approved by the US government.
• India’s CO2 emissions drop for the first time in 40 years.
• Majority of British want weekly car-free days in towns and cities, according to a new poll.

Expand
Expanding
Close

In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):

• Output from US coal dropped to 966,000 GWh in 2019, the lowest since 1976.
• A thermal coal mine that opened under the Trump administration is now suing the government.
• A clean energy microgrid is powering a pop-up clinic on the Mexican border to treat migrants.

Expand
Expanding
Close

In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):

• Businesses will increasingly opt for Zoom meetings instead of travel, and that will hurt Big Oil.
• Big Oil and Gas companies received at least $72 million in the small business bailout loans.
• Might there be some relief for renewables coming in Congress?

Expand
Expanding
Close

In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):

• Nearly 20 miles of Seattle streets will close to most vehicle traffic by the end of May for good.
• Abandoned coal mines in the UK will be transformed into renewable energy systems.
• One of the largest coal electricity plants in the US’s upper Midwest will close several years early.

Expand
Expanding
Close

In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):

• Multinationals call for an “ecological transition” in France’s COVID-19 economic recovery.
• Sweden erects the first wooden wind turbine.
• Total said it will become net zero by 2050 — but investors want it to be global, not just Europe.

Expand
Expanding
Close

In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):

• IKEA invested $2.8 billion in green energy in 2019 and intends to be net zero by 2030.
• World bankers and economists express strong support for green stimulus packages.
• A Swedish steelmaker has successfully used hydrogen to heat steel.

Expand
Expanding
Close

In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):

• The Federal Reserve is expanding coronavirus business loans, which opens things up for oil.
• Norway, which accounts for around 2% of the global oil production, cuts its output.
• Five of Ørsted’s US offshore wind projects may face delays due to coronavirus.

Expand
Expanding
Close

In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):

• The International Energy Agency says CO2 will fall by 8% this year because of the pandemic.
• Gas appliances pollute indoor and outdoor air, study shows.
• Royal Dutch Shell slashes its shareholder dividend for the first time since World War II.

Expand
Expanding
Close

In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):

• Oxford University will divest its multi-billion-pound endowment from fossil fuel assets.
• Petersberg Climate Dialogue: Don’t use taxpayer money to save fossil fuels.
• Nestlé UK makes a 15-year wind power purchase agreement with Ørsted.

Expand
Expanding
Close

In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):

• As of today, Britain has broken a 138-year-old record for coal-free power generation.
• Roof-integrated solar continues to innovate and improve.
• David Byrne asks, Can we all be like Texas when it comes to embracing wind energy?

Expand
Expanding
Close

In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):

• Citi and Morgan Stanley beef up sustainability plans, and Donald Trump says it’s a leftist plot.
• The 11th Petersberg Climate Dialogue (PCD) is underway as a video conference.
• Don’t bail out fossil fuels — buy them out instead.

Expand
Expanding
Close

In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):

• US Permian Basin releases methane at twice the average rate of 11 other US oil and gas regions.
• The US Supreme Court rules that the Clean Water Act covers groundwater pollution in Maui.
• Solar photovoltaic interventions have reduced rural poverty in China, says new study.

Expand
Expanding
Close

In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):

• US electricity demand fell to a near 17-year low last week due to the pandemic shutdown.
• The UK’s and Germany’s solar panels have just produced record amounts of electricity.
• It’s not all doom and gloom: 8minute Solar Energy expands development pipeline to 18 GW.

Expand
Expanding
Close