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WHAT'S NEXT?: By 2025 solar energy will be the cheapest energy option globally. In 2040, oil and natural gas are expected to make up nearly 60 percent of global supplies, while nuclear and renewables will be approaching 25 percent. Improvements in energy efficiency in lighting and home appliances are expected to continue to push residential electricity use lower. The burning of coal will fall out of favor. Transportation energy consumption will be rising in correlation to growth in automated vehicles in the coming years.

[New] The world's first large-scale power station to burn pure hydrogen could be built in Britain this decade by SSE and Equinor to generate enough low-carbon energy to supply more than a million homes.
[New] Post-COVID-19 investments in infrastructure, combined with demand to sustain the energy transition, will drive significant growth in the mining and metals sector over the next three to five years.
[New] If hydrogen-based steel production is to expand beyond Sweden to other large steel manufacturing countries such as China and the United States, significant investment will need to occur in renewable energy.
[New] The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries on Tuesday raised its global demand forecast by 70,000 bpd from last month's forecast and now expects global demand to rise by 5.95 million bpd in 2021.
[New] The expansion of wind energy envisaged in the National Energy and Climate Plans can create 150,000 new jobs by 2030.
[New] Major investments in clean energy and upgrades to electrical grids will support the transition to EVs and help the U.S. to make meaningful progress in reducing carbon emissions.
[New] Sasol and Air Liquide have formally announced plans to jointly procure 900 MW of renewable-energy capacity from independent power producers by 2030 and have issued a request for proposal through which they aim to procure an initial 600 MW in 2021.
[New] The emissions behind electric vehicles do not end with the making of batteries: without major shifts in how China makes its electricity, electric vehicles driven in China will be effectively charged with coal.
[New] State officials acknowledge that losing Indian Point will be a step in the wrong direction, but say that it will be made up by a leap forward in clean energy sources, like wind and solar.
[New] The processes taking place in the domestic energy market of Ukraine indicate the existence of significant problems that threaten the successful implementation of the decision to reform market relations, but also threaten the energy and national security of Ukraine.
[New] Future work by the Berkeley Lab team will expand the library of membranes and screen it for enhanced transport properties for other ions and molecules of interest in clean energy technologies.
[New] The International Energy Agency expects renewables to generate 80% of global electricity demand within the next decade, as the cost of renewable generation plummets below the cost of fossil fuels.
[New] The worldwide push to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 will require advances in green technologies - particularly tech associated with renewable energy - but simply waiting for future tools to emerge is not a viable solution to climate change.
[New] Investments in clean energy and efficiency would support a historic energy efficiency and clean electricity standard that would transform the electric sector to be carbon pollution free by 2035 and create good paying union jobs.
[New] The defection of the UK from the European Union will weaken the influence of the Atlantic alliance in Europe and strengthen European moves to normalise relations with Russia.
[New] Collaborating with the U.S. private sector to support cutting-edge transportation technologies could put the U.S. at the forefront of a transformational infrastructure and economy based on renewable, clean energy.
[New] Exports to Singapore could help kickstart substantial growth in Malaysia's renewable energy generation and prompt a greater commitment to shifting its energy mix.
[New] Now technology is advancing faster than anyone had anticipated and many fear that prolonging the use of fossil fuels will discourage investment in new technology and see Australia lag behind the rest of the world in the rapidly emerging new energy age.
[New] By then, the peak annual energy consumption and carbon emissions of China's Bitcoin blockchain will exceed the annual energy consumption and carbon emissions of some developed countries such as Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and the Czech Republic.
[New] Renewable energy is growing so fast that it will supply all growth in annual power consumption globally by 2028 or earlier, which means that fossil fuel consumption is likely to fall year on year from peak consumption in that year.

Last updated: 16 April 2021

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