Tag: renewables
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Energy System Resilience: Lessons Europe Must Learn from Ukraine
While decentralised power enhances resilience, by itself it is insufficient. Lessons from Ukraine reveal that energy security now relies on robust infrastructure capable of withstanding attacks and disruptions. Preparedness, strategic planning, and logistics are crucial for restoring power swiftly, ensuring system durability amidst crises.
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Capital Follows Electrons: How Electrification Is Driving Growth
Clean electricity is becoming essential for industrial competitiveness as companies prioritise energy costs and reliability when selecting locations for operations. Regions like South Australia, Iceland, China, India, and Africa show how transitioning to renewables leads to lower costs and increased energy security, reshaping global economic dynamics in favour of electrification.
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Why You Can’t Drone a Solar Panel: Electrification and Europe’s New Energy Security
Europe’s energy vulnerability was exposed by disruptions, highlighting the need for renewable electrification. Reports show a major shift towards clean energy, emphasizing its security and affordability benefits.
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Why Decarbonising Power Is the 21st-Century Economic Upgrade We Can’t Afford to Delay
Renewable energy has overtaken coal in global generation for the first time, highlighting a pivotal shift in power dynamics. Spain’s olive oil crisis exemplifies the economic impacts of climate risks. Accelerating clean energy and storage deployment is essential for resilience, stability, and affordability. Transitioning to renewables is a crucial step for sustainability and energy security.
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Bridging the Gap: Richard Delevan on Climate Tech, IPCC Reports, and Empowering Change
Climate change is a complex and often overwhelming issue. That’s why it’s crucial to have experts who can not only help us understand the latest scientific reports but also guide us in finding innovative solutions. In a recent episode of my Climate Confident podcast, I had the pleasure of speaking with Richard Delevan (@rdelevan), a…
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IEA Report: Global CO2 Emissions from Electricity Generation to Plateau
The International Energy Agency (IEA) recently released its 2023 Electricity Market Report and it provides an overview of the trends and developments in the global electricity sector in 2022 and the outlook for 2023-2025. It should be noted at this point that historically IEA reports have proven to significantly underestimate the growth of renewables. The report…
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Three Industries Where Technology Is Reducing Our Carbon Footprint
The science is in. We need to significantly reduce our carbon emissions to limit the amount of warming our planet undergoes as a consequence of climate change. The good news is, technology is rising up to meet this challenge. The bad news is it needs to do far more, and do it faster. How…
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Internet of Things, renewables and storage – a perfect storm for utilities’ digital transformation
Without doubt it is a time of great turbulence in the electric utilities space. In most regions globally, wind and solar are now our cheapest sources of electricity generation, even without subsidies. As a consequence of this, wind has overtaken nuclear, hydro and coal to become the second largest source of electricity generation in EU…