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Slow Uptake Has Countries Missing Benefits of Renewable Energy Transition, REN21 Warns
While the industry’s growth in 2018 showed that “renewable power is here to stay”, countries around the world are falling short of the full ... -
Arctic & AntarcticaBuildingsCanadaClimate Impacts & AdaptationElectricity GridEnergy Access & EquityFirst PeoplesHealth & SafetyHuman Rights & MigrationHydroOff-GridSolarSub-National GovernmentsWind
Senate Committee Urges Federal Support for Northern Climate Resilience
The climate resilience of Canada’s Northern communities—many of them Indigenous—is an urgent priority that calls for better financial and technical support from the Trudeau ... -
AfricaElectricity GridEnergy SubsidiesFinance & InvestmentInternational Agencies & StudiesOff-GridPost-Carbon TransitionSolar
Subsidies Would Help Deliver Mini-Grids as Cheapest Rural Electrification for Sub-Saharan Africa
While subsidies have helped ensure the expansion of national power grid systems around the world, using public money to finance solar mini-grids is less ... -
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Renewables Employed 11 Million in 2018, IRENA Reports
Renewable energy employed 11 million people around the world last year despite slower annual growth in key markets like China, the International Renewable Energy ... -
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Inuit Call for Federal Partnership to Address ‘Life and Death’ Climate Impacts
With the Arctic warming at nearly twice the national average rate, Canada’s Inuit are urging the federal government to form a working partnership grounded ... -
Quirky Ontario Electricity Pricing Creates Opportunity for Battery Storage
Battery developers have become the unintended beneficiaries of a strange quirk in Ontario energy policies that has a growing number of commercial and industrial ... -
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400 Million Gain Electricity Service, But Countries Fall Behind 2030 Deadline for Universal Access
Although 400 million people around the world have gained access to electricity since 2010, progress is still too slow to meet the United Nations ... -
Mini-Grids+Solar Promise Reliable Power, Community Income for World’s Poorest Countries
With mini-grid technology that allows peer-to-peer solar energy trading well in hand, the next step for poor countries like Bangladesh is to allow individual ... -
AustraliaBatteries/StorageClimate Impacts & AdaptationCoalDemand & EfficiencyElectricity GridHeat & TemperatureLegal & RegulatoryOff-GridPost-Carbon TransitionSolarWind
Coal Plants Failed, Renewables Shone as Epic January Heat Wave Hit Australian Grid
Australia’s mammoth coal plants failed while its wind and rooftop solar installations shone during a major January heat wave in Victoria state, according to ... -
Silicone-Based Device Generates Renewable Electricity from Snow
A research team at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is working on a device that would generate electricity from snow. -
BuildingsCitiesDrive to 1.5Energy Access & EquityOff-GridPathways to 1.5Post-Carbon TransitionSolarSub-National GovernmentsUnited States
Booming Community Solar Sector Promises Access for Low-Income Households
Determined to make good on the promise of equity contained in the phrase “community solar,” more than a dozen U.S. states and non-profit developers ... -
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Micro Wind Would Save 200 Megatons of Carbon by 2050
Micro wind places #76 on Drawdown’s list of climate solutions. If its share of global electricity generation increases to 1%, it could eliminate 0.2 gigatons of carbon ... -
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Canada Falls Short on Efforts to Cut Emissions, Phase Out Fossil Subsidies, Environment Commissioner Reports
Canada still isn’t on track to meet its greenhouse gas reduction targets or phase out fossil fuel subsidies, federal Environment Commissioner Julie Gelfand warned ...
