IEA Flags ‘Deeply Worrying’ Stagnation in Renewable Energy Growth – The Energy Mix
New capacity additions totalled 177 gigawatts (GW) last year, the
same as in 2017, Renewables Now reports. To meet the targets in the 2015
Paris Agreement based on the IEA’s Sustainable Development Scenario, new capacity would have to average more than 300 GW per year between 2018 and 2030.
Canada and the Shifting International Energy Order: Superpower, Climate Leader or Land of Myth?
Energy is a service that everyone values; greenhouse gas emissions and
climate change are consequences. The challenge is how to deliver the
service while managing the consequences and when we turn this on its
head, we get it wrong.
Liberals release laundry list of solutions to mitigate post-Muskrat Falls power rates | CBC News
“Just image how much
better off we would be today if we had access to that revenue,” Premier
Dwight Ball said of the hundreds of millions that will be needed to pay
the Muskrat mortgage once payments begin in 2021.
The Liberal plan
to stabilize rates at 13.5 cents per kilowatt hour is counting on an
array of opportunities to manage what Ball described as “one of the
greatest challenges in our province’s history,” with more than $725
million in annual funding requirements to be accounted for.
Shell Shifts 700,000 UK Homes to 100% Renewable Electricity – The Energy Mix
“This is a good example of
our approach to building a significant electricity business, in line with
customer needs,” said Shell New Energies Executive Vice President Mark
Gainsborough. “Shell recognizes the world needs more energy with lower
emissions, and this will give customers more flexibility, greater control, and
cleaner energy.”
US official reveals Atlantic drilling plan while hailing Trump’s ability to distract public
Joe Balash, the assistant secretary for land and minerals management,
was speaking to companies in the oil exploration business at a meeting
of the International Association of Geophysical Contractors, or IAGC,
last month.
“One of the things that I have found absolutely thrilling in working
for this administration,” said Balash,“is the president has a knack for
keeping the attention of the media and the public focused somewhere else
while we do all the work that needs to be done on behalf of the
American people.”