Washington: A research has found that the transition from coal to natural gas in the US electricity sector is reducing the industry’s water use. It is helping in saving water and contributing to reducing water scarcity. For every megawatt of electricity produced using natural gas instead of coal, the water withdrawn from rivers and groundwater […]
Morgan Stanley Says These Firms Will Profit From Climate Change
The world needs to spend $50 trillion on five areas of technology by 2050 to slash emissions and meet the Paris Agreement’s goal of curbing global warming, Morgan Stanley analysts wrote in a report. To reduce net emissions of carbon to zero, the world would have to eradicate the equivalent of 53.5 billion metric tons […]
Can Solar and Batteries Outlast an Extended Power Outage?
It depends, experts say. Just expect to make a few sacrifices. Even by the standards of the generally well-informed clean-energy customers in California’s Bay Area, Todd Karin is a savvy one. Karin works as a postdoctoral researcher in the energy storage and distributed resources division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Last year, he chose to […]
African Development Bank, Climate Investment Funds and the Coalition for Green Capital to develop Green financing instruments for Africa
The African Development Bank, in partnership with the Climate Investment Funds (CIF), has commissioned the Coalition for Green Capital (CGC) to prepare a study on the creation of national climate change funds and green banks in Africa. CGC will identify and work with six African countries to conduct feasibility studies for the project, which was initiated […]
Commonwealth targets climate change with replicable regeneration projects
The 53-country bloc held a two-day brainstorming of indigenous groups, environmentalists, scientists and climate change experts at its headquarters in London The Commonwealth on Friday launched an ideas-sharing network to tackle the effects of climate change through replicable regeneration projects. The 53-country bloc held a two-day brainstorming of indigenous groups, environmentalists, scientists and climate change […]
Americans really want the US to adopt renewable energy like wind and solar power, while rejecting fossil fuels like coal
A new Insider poll found that a large majority of Americans strongly favor cleaner sources of energy over fossil fuels – and it’s a belief that transcends party lines. The data shows that both self-identified Democrats and Republicans support the idea of the nation transitioning towards renewable sources of energy. Solar and wind power were […]
Week-Long IPCC Meet on Climate Change begins in New Delhi
India is hosting the Second Lead Author Meeting of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group III Sixth Assessment Report at New Delhi, beginning 30th September to 4th October 2019. Speaking at a press briefing today, Secretary, Ministry of Environment Forest &Climate Change (MoEFCC), Shri C.K. Mishra dwelt upon the challenges and viable solutions to […]
As India Achieves Solar Power Target Four Years In Advance, Centre Eyes New 100 GW Goal By 2022
In light of the country achieving its installed solar power generation capacity target four years ahead of schedule, the central government has now set aim at a new goal of reaching 100 GW of solar power by 2022, reports PTI. Initially, the government had aimed for India’s solar power capacity to reach 20 GW by […]
DNV GL: Renewables at 80% of Global Electricity Mix by 2050
Consultancy “very technology optimistic” amid daunting climate challenge, says energy practice CEO Ditlev Engel. Even a drastic uptick in renewable electricity has the globe on course for about 2.4°C of warming, according to a new analysis from DNV GL. The takeaways, while a slight variation on other scenarios of how a global energy transition may […]
Future thermal power plants at risk as water stress increases: Study
Existing water shortage has already forced 61 thermal power plants to shut down between 2013 and 2017, leading to 17,000 gigawatt hours of lost generation The country’s coal-fired thermal power generating stations face a bleak future with the ongoing water shortage crisis set to worsen. The existing water shortage problems have forced 61 thermal power […]
