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Only giving tax breaks to zero-emissions company cars will accelerate e-mobility November 18, 2020 by Chris Bowers Leave a Comment Subsidies and tax breaks for company cars in Europe cost €32bn a year, a hangover from the days when governments were happy to encourage driving. Chris Bowers at T E reviews a study that explores the issue in a wide range of European nations and reveals that 96% of company cars are petrol and diesel. As an indicator of the scale of emissions, the study says Europe’s 10 largest leasing companies alone – which include BMW’s Alphabet and [Read more...]Filed Under: Energy, Transport and energy Tagged With: BEV, cars, diesel, emobility, EVs, hybrids, petrol, PHEV, transportWhich sectors need Hydrogen, which don’t: Transport, Heating, Electricity, Storage, Industry? November 16, 2020 by Tom Baxter, Ernst Worrell, Hu Li, Petra de Jongh, Stephen Carr and Valeska Ting 1 Comment Which sectors are most suited to hydrogen, and which are not? For the answer, six academics from the UK and the Netherlands - Tom Baxter, Ernst Worrell, Hu Li, Petra de Jongh, Stephen Carr, and Valeska Ting – use their areas of expertise to neatly summarise hydrogen’s pros and cons in Road and Rail, Aviation, Heating, Electricity and Energy Storage, and Heavy Industry. Their general message seems clear: hydrogen is still very expensive, so it can [Read more...]Filed Under: Energy, Hydrogen Tagged With: aviation, electricity, EVs, grids, heating, hydrogen, industry, investment, policies, rail, storage, transport, trucks5 charts show the rapid fall in costs of renewable energy November 16, 2020 by Douglas Broom Leave a Comment Plenty in the energy sector already know about the impressive declines in renewable energy costs since 2010, particularly solar (down 82%), concentrated solar (47%), onshore (39%) and offshore wind (29%). For those of you putting together presentations to people whose buy-in you need - citizens, public officials, investors, customers, etc. - these graphics should come in useful. It looks like a tipping point is being reached, says Douglas Broom [Read more...]Filed Under: Energy, Renewables Tagged With: coal, costs, CSP, electricity, gas, investment, solar, windThe benefits of Peer-To-Peer Electricity Trading for communities and grid expansion November 13, 2020 by Arina Anisie and Francisco Boshell 1 Comment The adoption of peer-to-peer (P2P) electricity trading will turn individual consumers from passive to active managers of their networks. Such a marketplace can relieve constraints on the growing system and offer an alternative to costly grid reinforcements. Arina Anisie and Francisco Boshell at IRENA run through the benefits, including investment costs, bills, resilience, congestion, mini-grids, energy access, and more. They note that very few [Read more...]Filed Under: Energy, Grids Tagged With: bills, BrooklynMicrogrid, electricity, grids, investment, Lition, markets, minigrids, P2P, Piclo, regulation, renewablesRooftop Solar: economies of scale can challenge the centralised grid November 12, 2020 by Javier López Prol Leave a Comment One of our recent articles explained how rooftop solar PV is more expensive that a centralised supply, and that the transmission and distribution cost savings of the rooftop system, on their own, do not make up for this cost difference. Here, Javier López Prol at the Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change, University of Graz, responds to those challenges. First, the economies of scale of distributed rooftop solar are yet to be realised. [Read more...]Filed Under: Energy, Grids Tagged With: BehaviourChange, costs, Distribution, grids, investment, prosumers, rooftopsolar, solar, TransmissionWaste-to-Energy is underperforming. Whole-energy-system simulator can uncover the bottlenecks November 11, 2020 by NREL 1 Comment The potential for Waste-to-Energy (WTE) in the U.S. is 674 TWh/year, roughly 8% of the energy used by the transportation sector. However, for reasons not easily understood, many WTE technologies struggle to make it to commercial scale. Researchers at NREL have built a first-of-a-kind simulation model, WESyS, to create scenarios and understand where the bottlenecks are. The whole-energy system is always complex. The WESyS simulation modules [Read more...]Filed Under: Energy, Innovations, Policies Tagged With: innovation, markets, NREL, regulation, revenues, WasteToEnergy, WESyS, WTERural America needs investment, jobs. $82bn/yr of Wind and Solar can deliver it November 10, 2020 by Kevin Brehm Leave a Comment The build out of wind and solar in the U.S. – to rise from 165GW today to over 500GW in 2035 – will overwhelmingly happen in the open spaces of rural America, explains Kevin Brehm at RMI. It should result in a major boost to stagnating communities. The $82bn/year of clean energy investment will take second spot to the current three big rural spends: highways ($90bn), water utilities ($57bn) and mass transit ($45bn). By 2030 rural clean energy [Read more...]Filed Under: Energy, Renewables Tagged With: agriculture, election2020, investment, jobs, JustTransition, solar, US, windGreen or Blue Hydrogen: cost analysis uncovers which is best for the Hydrogen Economy November 9, 2020 by Schalk Cloete Leave a Comment Blue hydrogen is created from fossil sources, where the carbon emissions are captured and stored. Green hydrogen is made from non-fossil sources and favoured by policy makers who are wary of keeping the fossil economy going, even with CCS. As more regions commit to hydrogen, finding the right cost-optimal mix is crucial to its success. Schalk Cloete summarises his paper that models the whole system based on Germany. Integrating hydrogen will [Read more...]Filed Under: Energy, Hydrogen Tagged With: BlueHydrogen, CarbonPrice, CCS, costs, emissions, gas, Germany, greenhydrogen, hydrogen, solar, storage, Transmission, windChinese energy institutes present new net-zero scenarios for 2050 November 6, 2020 by Lauri Myllyvirta Leave a Comment It was just one sentence, in September, from China’s President Xi Jinping: “We aim to have CO2 emissions peak before 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality before 2060.” Already, leading Chinese energy institutes have presented two scenarios that lay out what needs to be done to meet that goal. Writing for Carbon Brief, Lauri Myllyvirta reviews the plans. Both target over 85% of all energy and more than 90% of electricity coming from non-fossil [Read more...]Filed Under: Energy, Policies, Renewables Tagged With: BECCS, CCS, China, coal, emissions, jobs, Nuclear, oil, solar, windBattery innovation must drive the 50-fold increase in storage capacity needed by 2040 November 6, 2020 by IEA Leave a Comment The IEA has set the storage sector a challenge. It says the world will need 10,000 GW-hours of batteries and other forms of energy storage by 2040, a 50-fold increase on today. The good news is that a joint study by the European Patent Office and the IEA reveals electricity storage patenting activity has grown 14% a year over the past decade. Here the IEA summarises the findings of its comprehensive report. It explains that Japan and Korea lead, [Read more...]Filed Under: Energy, Storage Tagged With: batteries, China, electricity, EU, EVs, innovation, Japan, Korea, solar, storage, US, windAnalysis shows Wind and Solar costs will continue to fall dramatically throughout the 2020s November 6, 2020 by Michael Taylor 2 Comments ***The drive for renewables continues apace in Europe and around the world. Nowhere is this more apparent or more important than in China where they are aiming at carbon neutrality by 2060. We all have a stake in their success. Join us on November 17 at our online conference: "CHINA: Carbon Neutral by 2060 - INNOVATION" (co-organised with ECECP) where you can find out all about the nature of their renewables plans and how you can get involved as [Read more...]Filed Under: Energy, Renewables Tagged With: China, CSP, G20, innovation, OffshoreWind, OnshoreWind, solar, windHow will China build its Hydrogen economy? November 4, 2020 by Kevin Tu Leave a Comment What are China’s hydrogen prospects? That’s the question Kevin Tu at the IFRI Center for Energy Climate attempts to answer in a report that he summarises here. He points at the growing number of policies that show China is taking hydrogen very seriously. China wants to expand production as well as build up end uses in transport, steel and cement manufacturing, and storage. The main drivers are the Covid pandemic, energy security, the [Read more...]Filed Under: Energy, Hydrogen Tagged With: cement, China, gas, hydrogen, industry, innovation, steel, storage, transportWEO 2020 means updated price predictions to 2040: Oil, Gas, Coal, Renewables, Power November 2, 2020 by Carlos Perez Linkenheil Leave a Comment The combined effect of the global lockdown, more ambitious climate policies and the rise of renewables will have a significant effect on European power prices up to 2040, as well as the sales revenues of renewable energies. Carlos Perez-Linkenheil at Energy Brainpool uses their Power2Sim model to look at the data in the IEA’s latest World Energy Outlook 2020 and make quantitative forecasts. The pandemic has caused structural distortions to the [Read more...]Filed Under: Energy, Markets, Oil, Gas Coal Tagged With: coal, Covid, gas, Nuclear, oil, power, prices, renewables, solar, WEO20, windThe IEA’s World Energy Outlook 2020 at a glance October 30, 2020 by Simon Göss Leave a Comment This month the IEA published its annual flagship World Energy Outlook (WEO). Simon Göss at Energy Brainpool picks out his highlights. This year’s WEO has four scenarios, two of them new: an updated “Stated Policies Scenario” (STEPS: what governments have promised), the new “Delayed Recovery Scenario” (DRS: due to Covid), an updated “Sustainable Development Scenario” (SDS: what’s needed to meet the Paris targets), and the new “Net Zero Emissions [Read more...]Filed Under: Energy, Energy Outlooks Tagged With: coal, Covid, DRS, emissions, gas, hydro, IEA, Nuclear, NZE2050, oil, SDS, solar, STEPS, WEO20, windEurope has enough Gas infrastructure. Why build more? October 29, 2020 by Esther Bollendorff 1 Comment In early November a first vote is expected in the European Parliament on the Recovery Resilience Facility’s €672.5bn budget. Esther Bollendorff at CAN Europe runs through the arguments against providing any funding for new gas infrastructure. She presents evidence to show that the EU is already oversupplied with gas import capacity, and all new fossil gas transmission projects have been rejected by the market since 2017. Solar and wind [Read more...]Filed Under: Energy, Oil, Gas Coal Tagged With: coal, Covid, efficiency, EU, gas, infrastructure, jobs, renewables, solar, stimulus, Transmission, wind123143Next Page Energy Post platform registerPlatform user log-in (not premium)Latest Platform postsWhy Autogas Could Help Us All Breathe More EasilyOctober 12, 2020 By WLPGA 2 CommentsGreen Ammonia Market: a New Era for Energy and Power IndustryJuly 23, 2020 By Siddhant Dongre Anna Zalewska MEP Q and A: We cannot drop coal from our energy mix in a decade July 22, 2020 By Matthew James Hydrogen, Renewables and Open Borders [VIDEO]July 21, 2020 By Matthew James More Platform Posts Never miss an important storyGet our FREE weekly newsletter straight to your inbox

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