Global Trends in Renewable Energy Investment
Falling clean energy costs provide opportunity to boost climate action in COVID-19 recovery packages Angus McCrone, Ulf Moslener, Francoise d’Estais, Christine Grüning, Malin Emmerich (Concept and editorial oversight) Published: 10 June 2020 As COVID-19 hits the fossil fuel industry, the GTR 2020 shows that renewable energy is more cost-effective than ever – providing an…
Read MoreThe new face of oil & gas – recruiting for 2020
The future of oil and gas depends upon recruiting more millennials as engineers. The sector’s failure may be down to perception rather than reality but that still matters, argues Brian Attwood. The Royal Academy of Engineering’s #ThisIsEngineering campaign highlights, as others have done, the annual demand for thousands of engineers and technicians with core engineering…
Read MoreThat natural gas power plant with no carbon emissions or air pollution? It works.
The carbon-capture game is about to change. Back in April of 2016, I wrote about an exciting new technology for which construction was just getting underway: the Net Power natural gas power plant. It promised to capture its own carbon dioxide emissions, not in a separate, expensive, power-intensive process like conventional carbon-capture facilities, but as…
Read MoreUK could tap into Africa’s $24bn market for off-grid solar power
Rapidly growing sector could prove lucrative as Britain seeks post-Brexit trade opportunities UK investors could seize a $24bn investment opportunity by helping to connect millions of people without access to electricity to off-grid home solar power systems. The market for pay-as-you-go home solar packages is expected to boom in Africa, where millions of homes are…
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