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Category Archives: Solar
“Renewable” power will soon start to be seen as normal. Wind farms already provide 2% of the world’s electricity, and their capacity is doubling every three years. If that growth rate is maintained, wind power will overtake nuclear’s contribution to … Continue reading
Posted in Clean Energy, Electricity, Energy Efficiency, Gas, Investments, Nuclear, Solar, Wind
Tagged Solar Energy, solar power, Swanson effect
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Jeremy Grantham’s latest quarterly thought piece is out. It’s terrific reading as usual. “Our global economy, reckless in its use of all resources and natural systems, shows many of the indicators of potential failure that brought down so many civilizations … Continue reading
Posted in - Quotes, Agriculture, Carbon Finance, Clean Energy, Commodities, Energy Efficiency, Gas, Investments, Oil, Policy, Scarce Resources, Solar, Traditional Energy, Water, Weather, Wind
Tagged Anric Blatt, Jeremy Grantham
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Abu Dhabi’s Masdar project has officially inaugurated the world’s largest solar thermal power project, after yesterday bringing online the 100MW Shams 1 concentrated solar power (CSP) plant. The $600m project, which was developed in partnership with oil giant Total and … Continue reading
Posted in Clean Energy, Investments, Solar, Uncategorized
Tagged Abu Dhabi, Anric Blatt, Masdar, Shams 1, Solar
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The Outlook for Energy is ExxonMobil’s long-term view of our shared energy future. They develop the Outlook annually to assess future trends in energy supply, demand and technology to help guide the long-term investments.
This year’s Outlook reveals a number of key findings about how we use energy, how much we will need in the future and what types of fuels will meet demand. Continue reading
Posted in Carbon Finance, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Electricity, Energy Efficiency, Gas, Nuclear, Oil, Policy, Scarce Resources, Solar, Traditional Energy, Transportation, Weather, Wind
Tagged Anric Blatt, energy outlook, ExxonMobil, qatar
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Information coming out of China about its renewable energy plans, and prospects for both domestic and international suppliers hoping to continue riding one of the world’s most optimistic growth markets, have commanded headlines in the early weeks of 2013. China … Continue reading
Posted in Clean Energy, Solar
Tagged China, Clean Energy, Lauralouise Duffy, Renewable Energy, Solar
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Food, water, energy and metals are the drivers of industrial, economic and social growth. As the world’s population rises and the clamor for higher living standards gets louder, so too the struggle for resource access intensifies. This crisis for mankind … Continue reading
By Giles Parkinson on 7 December 2012 Today I ate my first solar cucumber. (It was delicious). Its seed was planted two weeks ago, just before this month’s formal opening of a unique pilot facility in Qatar, in the massive … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Investments, Solar, Water
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OPEC member Qatar will ask firms to tender for a 1,800 megawatt (MW) solar energy plant in 2014 costing up to $20 billion as the world’s highest per capita greenhouse gas emitter seeks to increase its renewable energy production. “We … Continue reading
Posted in Clean Energy, Gas, Solar
Tagged Anric Blatt, COP18, Doha, Fahad Bin Mohammed al-Attiya
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We have historically written extensively about wind power and other alternative energy technologies since 2007, and have consistently argued that there is no ‘one-solution-fits-all’ in solving the world’s growing energy crisis, with global electricity demand potentially doubling by 2030, and … Continue reading
Posted in Clean Energy, Solar, Uncategorized, Wind
Tagged Anric Blatt, investing in wind energy
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Norway is to double carbon tax on its North Sea oil industry and set up a £1bn fund to help combat the damaging impacts of climate change in the developing world. [Guardian] In one of the most radical climate programmes … Continue reading
