Notices tagged with renewables, page 4

How anger at Australia’s rollout of #renewables is being hijacked by a new pro-nuclear network - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/dec/09/anti-renewable-energy-campaigns-liberal-coalition-labor-ntwnfb my, but people are gullible fools #fossilfuels

"There’s enough wind energy here for Japan’s northernmost island to power itself and export clean electricity..."
"#Hokkaido Electric Power Network is deploying flow batteries...that stores energy in hulking tanks of metallic liquid"
"Hokkaido’s flow battery farm was the biggest in the world when it opened in April 2022 – a record that lasted just a month before China built one that is 8 times bigger"
https://www.postguam.com/the_globe/world/these-batteries-could-harness-the-wind-and-sun-to-replace-coal-and-gas-friday/article_2464da72-ac64-11ef-902f-a35d16bc4082.html
#Japan #FlowBatteries #Renewables #WindPower

India is building what it boasts will be the world's largest renewable power plant, an emblem of a determined push to boost solar energy. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2024/12/02/energy/india-push-solar-power/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #environment #energy #adanigroup #india #solar #renewables

Missed this one: a 3.5 GW(!) solar PV power plant in China, covering 133 km², producing 6 TWh of electricity per year!
World's largest, for now.
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/worlds-biggest-solar-farm-comes-online-chinas-xinjiang-2024-06-03/
#renewables #solar #SolarPV

#China has powered up the world’s largest open-sea offshore solar farm - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/live/2024/nov/15/cop29-live-day-five-begins-with-demands-for-change-to-way-summits-are-run?page=with:block-6736fc528f088965fc622062#block-6736fc528f088965fc622062 "one gigawatt (GW) offshore solar farm – the world’s first and largest of its kind" #renewables

"It took 68 years for the world to reach 1 terawatt of solar PV capacity. It took just two years to double it"

#solar #ClimateChange #renewables

https://reneweconomy.com.au/it-took-68-years-for-the-world-to-reach-1-terawatt-of-solar-pv-capacity-it-took-just-two-years-to-double-it/

Earth to US: Who needs you, anyways?

#solar #solarpower #solarpv #solarindustry #pvindustry #cop29 #unitednations #climatecrisis #climateaction #solarcapacity #solarenergy #pvmanufacturing #renewableenergy #renewables #solarpolicy #pv #cleanenergy #renewableenergy #greeneconomy #decarbonization #decarbonisation

https://cleantechnica.com/2024/11/11/global-installed-solar-capacity-to-blow-past-2-terawatts-usa-or-not/

#Introduction

I'm Tim. I worked in #Software for 37 years at PAFEC, CA, Mediasurface, Sun & twice for Software AG.

My interests include #RetroComputing, #LibDem #Politics, #Psychology, #Renewables #Gardening & Gnu, my #Caterham7.

I write three blogs.

One on #RetroComputing - https://z80.timholyoake.uk/

A second on living with #BloodCancer, #MCL - https://mcl.timholyoake.uk/

And a third documenting my fundraising for Lymphoma Action - https://railwaywalks.timholyoake.uk/

Be seeing you 🙂

Also also. With #Trump coming up, is the dependency on US LNG sustainable? The move to #Renewables and storage capacities for electricity can not come soon enough, IMHO.

Plans for biggest onshore #windfarm in England to be submitted this week - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/05/biggest-onshore-windfarm-energy-cubico-scout-moor-greater-manchester "Cubico project at Scout Moor near Greater Manchester could power the equivalent of 100,000 homes" good to see some movement, finally #renewables

Oh look - the UCP is looking to expand its de facto ban on renewables.

I had a discussion with an economist about the UCP's approach here over on X a month or two back. He tried to argue that it was "good policy" because it went after end of life recycling issues.

I said it was part of a de facto ban, and here we are with that being expanded.

I'm sure you're all surprised by this.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/danielle-smith-alberta-ruiping-luo-ucp-renewables-wind-1.7351877

#abpoli #renewables #NeverVoteConservative

Renewable distributed power is radical. It would transform the world.

#ClimateChange #power #renewables

Good to see the Netherlands on #2 with 77% #wind and #solar electricity by 2030!
Between Denmark and Germany.
Projection by IEA, via @LionHirth on the birdsite.
#windpower #SolarPV #renewables #electricity

Even solar energy’s biggest fans are underestimating it

https://www.vox.com/climate/372852/solar-power-energy-growth-record-us-climate-china

> We’re still underestimating the potential for solar power. New data shows how rapid solar energy expansion has become.

#solar #renewables #climatechange #science #tech

Possible for #Japan to increase from present 22% #renewables to 80% by 2035 by increasing battery storage and grid transmission while phasing out coal and nuclear, new study says
#energytransition #ClimateCrisis https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20240922/p2g/00m/0na/020000c https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20240922/p2g/00m/0na/020000c

While calls are growing for #Japan to prioritize #renewables, #China’s dominance of key components – such as #lithium, cobalt #solar & nickel – is linked by forced labor of #Uyghurs in the #Xinjiang region and other #humanrights concerns in places like #Indonesia and the #DRC.

For my story for @thejapantimes I explore how Tokyo is balancing with the social cost and geopolitical risks as it, cautiously, moves forward on its #cleanenergy transition

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2024/09/16/energy/china-supply-chain-energy-transition/

On Wed: German Foreign Office posted on X mocking #TFG.

TFG criticized Harris’s clean energy approaches -cited Germany.

“Germany tried that & within 1 year -back to building normal energy plants. We’re not ready for it -can’t sacrifice our country for the sake of bad vision” -TFG.

Germany refuted that claim: “Germany’s energy system is fully operational, with >50% #renewables. We're shutting down coal & nuclear plants. Coal: off the grid by 2038 at the latest.”
#USPol https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-germany-energy-presidential-debate-b2611812.html