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June 3, 2021
You are here: Home / World Economic Forum / A giant new offshore wind project is set to power 10 million US homes
A giant new offshore wind project is set to power 10 million US homes
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This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum.
Author: Sean Fleming, Senior Writer, Formative Content
The US is set to power 10 million homes from a series of offshore wind farms.
Global offshore wind has grown from 2.2 gigawatts in 2016 to 6.1 gigawatts in 2020.
The UK has the most offshore wind capacity of any country.
But unless current plans are immediately accelerated, the world will miss the target of net zero by 2050, says the Global Wind Energy Council.
Cleaner sources of energy are a major part of its plan.
Residents are involved in a range of sustainable projects – and even their symphony orchestra has joined in.
In the south of Finland, the small city of Lahti became the winner of the 2021 European Green Capital competition in recognition of its environmental ambitions. It plans to be carbon neutral by 2025 – that’s 10 years ahead of Finland’s national goal to achieve the same status.
One way it is going about this is the adoption of more sustainable power generation. The city has two new power stations. Kymijärvi II, which is described as the world’s first gasification plant, is run on the city’s waste. Kymijärvi III is a biomass power plant. It takes waste from the timber industry and wood from certified, local forests.
May 7, 2021
You are here: Home / EUGlobe / China / Industrial clusters using green hydrogen can drive clean energy transition in Europe and China
Industrial clusters using green hydrogen can drive clean energy transition in Europe and China
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Author: Kevin Tu, Senior Advisor China , Agora Energiewende, Matthias Deutsch, Senior Associate, Agora Energiewende & Gniewomir Flis, Senior Advisor Hydrogen, Agora Energiewende
Hydrogen produced with renewable resources will become cheaper than fossil fuels by 2030 across a range of applications.
Green hydrogen will be used to replace fossil fuels in hard-to-abate sectors.
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Analysis from a decade of benchmarking data from the World Economic Forum’s Energy Transition Index 2021 indicates that only 10 per cent of the 115 countries analysed maintained a steady upward trajectory toward energy transition. AFP
Indonesia, key for energy transition in the region
Thu, 29 April 2021
The global energy transition has crossed many milestones over the past decade, surpassing most expectations.
Thanks to technological innovation, entrepreneurship and risk-taking by policymakers and businesses, the installed capacity grew sevenfold for solar PV, and threefold for onshore wind since 2010.
Once considered a pipedream, the share of renewable energy in the electricity mix is higher than fossil fuels in some countries. The last decade has also seen the number of people without access to modern forms