Trends
2020, February, 14, 12:00:00
FIVE KEY TRENDS IN THE POWER INDUSTRY
The power industry is evolving because it must meet a growing demand for electricity, as the world population continues to increase and developing countries industrialise.
2020, February, 14, 11:55:00
BRAZIL'S ENERGY INVESTMENT $538 BLN
Brazil’s investment needs in energy infrastructure over the next ten years will reach BRL2,340bn (US$538bn)
2020, February, 14, 11:50:00
TURKEY'S RENEWABLE INVESTMENT $40 BLN
Turkey had invested around $40 billion in renewables over the last decade
2020, February, 14, 11:40:00
EBRD: RENEWABLE ENERGY GO UP
Last year alone, the EBRD financed almost 2.25 GW of new renewables across its region. The Bank is currently working with 14 governments to start or launch renewable energy auctions.
2020, February, 12, 11:40:00
GLOBAL CO2 EMISSIONS UNCHANGED
Global energy-related CO2 emissions flattened in 2019 at around 33 gigatonnes (Gt), following two years of increases.
2020, February, 10, 10:25:00
U.S. COAL + NUCLEAR: 25%
U.S. coal and nuclear power plants will collectively provide more than 25% of electricity generation through 2050.
2020, February, 10, 10:20:00
GLOBAL CLIMATE CRISIS
Climate threats and associated risks are “very big complex problems that need complex solutions”
2020, February, 10, 10:15:00
SMALL NUCLEAR INCREASING
If current developments with small modular reactors in first month of 2020 are any indication of interest in this scale of nuclear technology, the 2020s could be the decade that SMRs take off. Here are six reports of interest in SMRs the U.S. and Europe.
2020, February, 10, 10:10:00
INDIA'S ELECTRICITY UPGRADE
India’s national transmission grid must urgently modernise to increase the rate of renewable energy adoption
2020, February, 7, 10:45:00
COAL POWER TRANSFORMATION
The coal power industry acknowledges that to play a stable role in future power markets, it needs to modernize, and perhaps even overhaul its long-held status as a “conventional generator
2020, February, 7, 10:35:00
U.S. RENEWABLES + GREENHOUSE
But the agency paints a deeply troubling picture for the country’s greenhouse gas emissions, with carbon pollution dipping briefly this decade, increasing in the 2030s, and falling only 4% overall by 2050,
2020, February, 7, 10:15:00
SHELL: CLEAN ENERGY + DIGITALISATION
Two dominant energy industry themes—the move to cleaner energy and digitalisation—can be combined to “positively impact each other”, Shell CTO Yuri Sebregts told the annual meeting of energy technology heavyweight Baker Hughes in Florence on Tuesday.
2020, February, 5, 11:10:00
NORD STREAM 2: REDUCTION CO2 EMISSIONS 50%
When replacing hard coal, natural gas achieves an immediate 50 percent reduction of CO2 emissions.
2020, February, 5, 10:50:00
CLEAN FUEL: HYDROGEN
Hydrogen as a clean fuel is back with a new mission and better ways of producing it.
2020, February, 5, 10:45:00
STIR/SHAKEN AGAINST SCRAMMERS
I'm wondering what other utilities are doing to combat scammers and are you using a 3rd party in your efforts?