Opinion by Philippe Benoit, Jully Merino (washington dc)
Thursday, April 08, 2021
Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON DC, Apr 08 (IPS) – As the world looks to address issues of gender equity, development and climate change, the importance of increasing the participation of women in the energy sector is gaining attention. To date, this topic has generally been framed around the underrepresentation of women in the energy workforce.
But this ignores an important reality: millions of women already participate as producers of energy â specifically of bioenergy for poor households. To support sustainable development and gender goals, more attention needs to be given to these women energy producers who have remained largely invisible in much of the energy discourse.
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Latin America Looking to Take Slice of Global Hydrogen Pie
As Latin American nations establish aggressive climate goals, hydrogen is poised to become an important part of the energy puzzle, but numerous operators in the region are thinking bigger and toward the global market.
Latin America could become “a key contributor to the global push toward low‑carbon hydrogen,” according to a recent study by the International Energy Agency (IEA). However, it will likely be a decade before meaningful progress is made.
More than 120 countries have so far announced their intention to bring emissions to net zero by the middle of this century, according to IEA, and hydrogen will almost undoubtedly be an important part of this push. The global energy watchdog suggested that today’s early stage technologies including hydrogen will likely need to contribute “almost half of the emissions reductions” in the push to net zero.
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6 Apr, 2021 Author Ellie Potter
The Palo Verde power plant in Arizona is the largest nuclear facility in the U.S. Arizona Public Service, which partially owns the facility, is working with the U.S. Department of Energy to produce hydrogen from the plant.
Source: Arizona Public Service
Commercial-scale hydrogen production from nuclear reactors is on the horizon, but its potential deployment will ultimately hinge on federal policies to drive market demand, private sector investment, and infrastructure build-out, experts said. We re going to see new technologies ready for the market this decade, said John Kotek, vice president of policy development and public affairs at the Nuclear Energy Institute. The question is going to be: do the policy frameworks and other incentive systems line up to create the demand-pull to really accelerate the deployment of those new technologies?