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Both Governor Ige and state lawmakers are pushing policies to increase the use of electric vehicles and produce more green energy.
While Hawaii’s utilities are expanding renewable electricity generation, more than half of all energy usage in the islands goes to power transportation; predominantly in the form of gasoline and jet fuel.
Although they are increasing in popularity with consumers, electric vehicles still account for a relatively small share of ground transpiration. Electrification is unlikely to replace conventional jet fuel for air travel anytime soon.
That has some officials looking at another carbon-free energy source: hydrogen.
Using hydrogen as a fuel source isn’t a new idea. Experiments with hydrogen technology go back as far as the 1830’s.
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Australia needs an ambitious long-term Renewable Energy Target (RET) policy to unlock future investments, says Wood Mackenzie.
Share of renewables in the country’s National Electricity Market (NEM) power generation mix is expected to double to 41% by 2030, from its current share of 21%, a figure which has surpassed the RET.
The RET seeks 20% of power generation to come from large-scale renewables from 2020 - 2030 and is designed to ensure that at least 33 000 GWh of Australia s electricity comes from renewable sources by 2020. This annual target will remain until the scheme ends in 2030.
Wood Mackenzie senior analyst, Rishab Shrestha, said: “Australia does not have a federal long-term national power mix target like many other countries. The RET scheme, alongside government funding, have led to the renewables boom over the last few years. Hardware cost declines have continued to be a precursor for growth. But the grid has been pushed to its limit making future r
12 January 2021
New research from the United Kingdom’s University of Exeter’s Global System Institute has highlighted a range of ‘tipping points’ in human societies that could see emissions reductions cascade, triggered by large-scale policy changes.
According to the researchers, these tipping points occur when a small change triggers a “large, often irreversible response”, and could be instigated by coalitions of small countries.
The paper was published in the journal Climate Policy and is written by Professor Timothy Lenton and Simon Sharpe, a Deputy Director in the UK Cabinet Office COP 26 unit. Professor Lenton has previously focused on the ‘bad’ tipping points – those associated with the Earth’s climate system, in which rising emissions trigger natural phenomena that release even more emissions; further worsening the problem.
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