Wind and solar energy are the cheapest form of new electricity in most places in the world. This is shown by a study by Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF). According to the BNEF researchers, there will be a tipping point [...]
On a worldwide scale, the renewable energy sector is responsible for 11.5 million jobs. This is evident from the seventh edition of Renewable Energy and Jobs – Annual Review of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA).Solar energy accounts for [...]
In the first half of 2020, Europe generated more sustainable electricity for the first time – including wind turbines and solar panels – than fossil electricity. This is reported by climate think tank Ember.The think tank publishes a report [...]
Solar energy was by far the most important new source of power generation technology worldwide in 2019. No other energy source was responsible for more new installations than solar modules.Solar panels accounted for 45 percent of the world’s newly [...]
SolarPower Europe has predicted the volume of new PV capacity added this year will be 4% less than last year’s figure because of the Covid-19 crisis. At the end of 2019, the world had topped 630 GW of solar. [...]
Following the International Energy Agency (IEA), international governments must put clean energy at the center of the stimulus plans to combat the economic damage caused by the corona virus. “The impact of the coronavirus around the world and the resulting [...]
IRENA (International Renewable Energy Agency) recently published a paper about the global future of solar energy. The document focuses primarily on the necessary growth of the PV industry to achieve the climate objectives. The main conclusions of the IRENA [...]
Global investments in renewable energy will finish at the end of this year at $ 2600 billion. Solar energy is by far the largest sector, according to figures from BloombergNEF and UN environmental organization UNEP.The Global Trends in Renewable [...]
To make the transition to green energy possible, over the next 30 years around 13.000 billion dollars will have to be invested worldwide in solar modules and wind turbines. This significantly reduces CO2 emissions, which will be in line [...]
February 4 was ‘Gray Day’, the day in the year when all renewable energy produced in a yopgebear is exhausted. After Gray Day we only use ‘gray energy’, originating from uranium in nuclear reactors or from fossil fuels such [...]
Last year, an amount of 130.8 billion euros was invested in the PV sector. According to a recent report from the United Nations, solar energy is the energy source of the future.One of the reasons for the massive investments [...]
During the summer months Edelman Intelligence organized a large-scale survey on renewable energy at the request of the Danish energy company Ørsted. No fewer than 26,401 respondents from 13 different countries participated. Recently, the results were presented in the form [...]
