Renewable Energy World

MAY 6, 2021

Members of the International Renewable Energy Agency and private sector representatives are joining forces to modernize and refurbish the existing hydropower fleet around the globe. With 43%, hydropower accounts for the largest share of installed renewable capacity , according to IRENA’s latest data.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 25, 2024

Wind is China’s largest source of electricity after coal and hydropower, delivering 9.4% On the other hand, DNV forecasts fossil fuels will still account for 40% of its energy mix in 2050. Natural gas consumption will remain high with 2050 consumption marginally below 2023 levels and 58% being imported.

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Energy Central

MARCH 9, 2022

Global organizations established net-zero emission goals to reach before 2050. Industrial energy consumers are influencing the clean energy market, especially hydropower. These objectives are affecting different industries’ energy consumption patterns.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Mark Wilson, CEO of Intelligent Land Investments, told a conference of the British Hydropower Association in Glasgow on 24 November that while the current energy crisis offers “a great opportunity for renewables”, long-term energy storage will also be required to fulfil that potential. “We However, the policy makers have to keep up.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 1, 2021

In the coming years, the hydrogen economy is expected to grow exponentially, potentially providing up to 24% of energy needs and reaching $10 trillion in annual revenues by 2050, as reported by Bloomberg New Energy Finance.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 24, 2021

Report funded by Scottish Renewables, the British Hydropower Association, Buccleuch, CCSQ, Drax Group, Intelligent Land Investments Group, SSE Renewables. It was funded by Scottish Renewables, the British Hydropower Association (BHA), Buccleuch, CCSQ, Drax Group, Intelligent Land Investments Group and SSE Renewables.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Hydropower provides about 800 megawatts, and its only solar facility, the O’Fallon Renewable Energy Center, has a 5.7-megawatt Ameren Missouri has set a goal to reduce its carbon emissions by 80 percent by 2050, pushing it beyond Missouri’s meager renewable portfolio standard of 15 percent by 2021. Transmission challenges.

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Business Green

APRIL 20, 2020

The global economic response to the coronavirus crisis should accelerate the shift towards net zero emissions, delivering a multi-trillion dollar renewable energy drive that offers a pathway that would more than pay for itself in GDP growth, jobs, and welfare by 2050, IRENA has argued.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 14, 2023

Scottish Renewables and the British Hydropower Association have written a joint letter to the Prime Minister calling on the UK Government to urgently support the deployment of long-duration electricity storage, including pumped storage hydro (PSH). If deployed, PSH could deliver system cost savings of up to £680 million per year by 2050.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 18, 2022

by 2050, according to an analysis published by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) in collaboration with the African Development Bank (AfDB). Specific to hydropower , the report said that 17.4% of all electricity generation on the continent came from hydropower in 2019.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 6, 2021

However, hydropower still accounts for the largest share of renewables in the total mix. degree outlook shows significant planned energy investments must be redirected to support the transition if we are to achieve 2050 goals. Solar and wind dominated capacity expansion in 2020 with 127 GW and 111 GW of new installations, respectively.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 28, 2020

Meanwhile Southern Company, which owns a large fleet of gas and coal plants across the Deep South, committed this week to achieving net-zero carbon by 2050, joining other major utilities like Duke Energy and Xcel Energy in doing so. Wind overtook hydro as the largest source of U.S. renewable power in 2019.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

At COP21, world leaders agreed to reach net-zero emissions by 2050 in pursuit of capping global warming to 1.5°C Fossil fuels will continue to make up 50% of energy demand by 2050, with gas maintaining its position, according to the report. Wind will provide 33% of the world’s electricity output by 2050, the report forecasts.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Europe is still plotting the course towards being net-zero by 2050, but no matter the shape it takes, it will surely involve hundreds of gigawatts of new renewable power capacity. By the end of 2019, the total tally (plus the U.K.) was 22 GW with 3.6 GW installed during 2019, indicating the ramp-up required to meet that goal.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Recognized as a key driver in achieving climate neutrality by 2050 under the European Green Deal, geothermal energy is gaining increasing prominence. The European Parliaments 2023 EU Policy Document on Geothermal Energy acknowledges its critical role in decarbonizing the heating and cooling sector.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 8, 2021

The largest country-level advances in renewable energy in 2018 were in Spain, owing to higher hydropower generation, followed by Indonesia, with a rapid uptake of bioenergy. More than one third of the increase in renewable energy generation in 2018 can be attributed to East Asia, driven by large uptakes of solar and wind energy in China.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 10, 2020

To fill this gap, NYISO is working toward growing transmission capacity for its ample upstate hydropower and wind power resources to reach New York City and downstate population centers, which will also be served by the 9 gigawatts of offshore wind the state is seeking by 2035. Source: NYISO. Source: NYISO.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

Wind and solar alone generated around 30 per cent of Britain's electricity in 2020, while biomass provided seven per cent, and hydropower made up 1.6 Overall, it means wind, solar, hydropower, and biomass sources together supplied 38.5 Nuclear power, meanwhile, provided 17.5 In contrast, fossil fuel sources made up 39.6

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Hydrogen Fuel News

AUGUST 22, 2024

  For instance, Switzerland’s climate-neutral goal has been set for 2050. Depending on the particular scenario, the prediction they described was that there would be a demand within the range of 111 megatons and 614 megatons per year by 2050. 

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Baker, a Reader in Emerging Electrical Machines and Senior Lecturer, commented: “With regards to achieving the ambitious goal of net zero by 2050, it is essential to look at the energy system as a whole. The FloWave Ocean Energy Research Facility at the Unviersity of Edinburgh, one of the collaborators in the MEC-EDRIVE project.

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The Verge: Energy

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Solar grew to 9 percent of the mix, while hydropower generation recovered from 2022 dry spells. The EU has committed to reaching net-zero carbon dioxide emissions by 2050 and on February 6th , the European Commission recommended slashing that pollution by 90 percent by 2040 compared to 1990 levels.

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Fossil fuels Europe Energy Energy 139

Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Low Pumped storage hydropower would result in a 1% increase in solar capacity additions and a 26% increase in energy storage deployment. In Bangladesh, energy storage is expected to help reduce reliance on expensive, high-polluting diesel- and fuel-oil-fired power plants to manage demand and provide peaking power.

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Asia Hydropower Energy Energy 84

Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 13, 2021

The IEA analyzed current government net-zero emissions pledges, finding demand for fossil fuels would peak by 2025 and global CO2 emissions would fall by 40% by 2050. The global average temperature rise in 2100 is held to 2.1°C C in the "Announced Pledges Scenario.".

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Maine also set a goal of 100 percent renewable energy by 2050. But hydropower and biomass dominate that total. They were the first to get the go-ahead after Maine increased its renewable portfolio standard to 80 percent by 2030 in a suite of climate and clean energy laws signed last year. Energy Information Administration.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Canada’s hydropower-rich grid is 84% non-emitting with variable renewables (essentially wind and solar) currently making up 7% of the country’s total electricity generation. However, the Canada Energy Regulator projects that this would rise to between 33% and 37% of electricity generation in 2050 in a net-zero 2050.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Around $15 billion would be spent on nuclear, renewables, storage, and hydropower over the same period, plus $33 billion on transmission and distribution infrastructure. Roy Cooper on Wednesday signed into law a bipartisan mandate that will require the state to reduce carbon emissions by 70% by 2030 and reach carbon neutrality by 2050.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 12, 2019

On Wednesday the European Commission presented a sweeping 50-point plan centered around achieving net zero status in Europe by 2050. In a statement emailed to GTM, a spokesperson for Shell said the company "welcomes the EU’s new Green Deal and supports the vision to achieve net zero emissions by 2050 in Europe.”

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 15, 2021

More on Chilean renewables: Statkraft to build first windfarms in Chile Chile will increase small hydropower generation with 3-MW Los Pinos hydropower plant. Chile plans to expand the share of renewables excluding hydro within its energy mix to 20% by 2025 and 70% by 2050.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Under the VCEA, Appalachian Power must meet annual targets while working toward 100 percent carbon-free energy in its Virginia service territory by 2050. The request for bids is the first in a series of RFPs Appalachian Power will issue this year to comply with the Virginia Clean Economy Act (VCEA). 15, 2024 will be considered.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Hydrogen Economy” report forecasts that hydrogen from low-carbon sources could supply roughly 14 percent of the country’s energy needs by 2050, including hard-to-electrify sectors now dependent on natural gas such as high-heat industrial processes or manufacturing fertilizer. million jobs by 2050, it states.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

GW of new long duration pumped hydro storage, with 90 GWh of storage, could save up to £690 million per year in energy system costs by 2050, as the UK transitions to a net-zero carbon emission system. A new study by independent researchers from Imperial College London has found that just 4.5

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 8, 2023

Clean electrification is the backbone of the transition to net-zero and will provide over 60% of all energy consumed in 2050, up from 20% today. Immediate policy and industry action are key to progress the energy transition at the speed and scale required to meet net-zero targets by 2050.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

The company, which is part of the EN+ Group and manufactures aluminium using its own independent hydropower plants, said key performance indicators were still to be agreed, but confirmed proceeds from the sustainability-linked credit facility would be used to refinance more expensive debt. "As million trees in Siberia.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 21, 2020

National Grid expects the initiative to deliver £115 million ($149 million) in net present value by 2050, through reduced costs associated with large generator readiness. If the project is a success, the grid operator will start procuring DER-based black-start services from mid-2022 onward.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

utility can reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 while still keeping natural gas as a central part of its business, both to generate electricity and to sell to its customers. Southern Company intends to test the proposition that a U.S.

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Solar Energy Monitor Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 130

Business Green

JULY 15, 2020

Investor Thrive Renewables claims removal of local planning barriers could unlock multi-billion pound potential of onshore wind, solar, and hydropower sectors.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

In recent months, the world’s three top producers — Europe’s ArcelorMittal, China’s Baowu Steel, and Japan’s Nippon Steel — committed to achieving net-zero emissions by 2050, echoing targets set in their home countries. Doing so is essential to limiting global warming to 1.5

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