Import – Energy Transition https://energytransition.org The Global Energiewende Tue, 27 Sep 2022 12:54:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 Colombian Conundrum: Banning Russian fossil fuels ups global demand for blood coal https://energytransition.org/2022/10/colombian-conundrum-banning-russian-fossil-fuels-ups-global-demand-for-blood-coal/ https://energytransition.org/2022/10/colombian-conundrum-banning-russian-fossil-fuels-ups-global-demand-for-blood-coal/#respond Tue, 11 Oct 2022 10:00:49 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=27323 Responding to sanctions leveled on Russia following its February invasion of Ukraine, Moscow throttled deliveries of its fossil gas to the European Union. Desperate to keep the lights on, regulators and power producers returned to coal. But with Russia mining almost 70% of EU imports, burners needed other suppliers. Despite widely acknowledged human rights abuses there, in early April...

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]]> https://energytransition.org/2022/10/colombian-conundrum-banning-russian-fossil-fuels-ups-global-demand-for-blood-coal/feed/ 0 Low-carbon Technology’s Russia Problem https://energytransition.org/2022/09/low-carbon-technologys-russia-problem/ https://energytransition.org/2022/09/low-carbon-technologys-russia-problem/#respond Tue, 27 Sep 2022 10:00:27 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=27283 Low-carbon technology has a Russia problem, too. And it’s going to get bigger. Higher prices, supply chain disruptions, and the war in Ukraine has Europe’s clean tech branch scrambling for non-Russian suppliers of key raw materials, such as nickel, palladium, lithium, platinum, cobalt, and neon-gas, as well as aluminium and copper. Some countries, such as the UK, have already begun to sanction...

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]]> https://energytransition.org/2022/09/low-carbon-technologys-russia-problem/feed/ 0 EU hydrogen import targets— a neo-colonial resource grab https://energytransition.org/2022/06/eu-hydrogen-import-targets-a-neo-colonial-resource-grab/ https://energytransition.org/2022/06/eu-hydrogen-import-targets-a-neo-colonial-resource-grab/#respond Tue, 07 Jun 2022 10:00:42 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=26735 The REPowerEU plan to end Europe’s dependence on Russian gas would still leave it in hock to fossil-fuel companies. Pascoe Sabido has the story. A longer version originally appeared in Social Europe. To meet the EU`s renewable-hydrogen goals will require a lot of renewable electricity. (Photo by TEDxTarfaya, CC BY-SA 2.0) When European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen...

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]]> https://energytransition.org/2022/06/eu-hydrogen-import-targets-a-neo-colonial-resource-grab/feed/ 0 Bulgaria Can Circumvent Russian Gas Freeze https://energytransition.org/2022/05/bulgaria-can-circumvent-russian-gas-freeze/ https://energytransition.org/2022/05/bulgaria-can-circumvent-russian-gas-freeze/#respond Wed, 04 May 2022 10:00:13 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=26519 Many Central and Eastern European countries rely on Russia for more of their fossil fuel than Germany does. This is one reason why Russian president Vladimir Putin targeted Bulgaria and Poland when he announced that these two EU and NATO countries would no longer receive natural gas deliveries. Paul Hockenos spoke with Bulgarian energy expert Radostina Primova. The current energy-crisis is an...

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]]> https://energytransition.org/2022/05/bulgaria-can-circumvent-russian-gas-freeze/feed/ 0 Energy conservation can hurt the Russian war effort https://energytransition.org/2022/04/energy-conservation-can-hurt-the-russian-war-effort/ https://energytransition.org/2022/04/energy-conservation-can-hurt-the-russian-war-effort/#respond Thu, 14 Apr 2022 10:00:17 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=26365 Energy efficiency has long been overlooked to the detriment of the larger smart energy transition. Now it’s being shortchanged to the disadvantage of besieged Ukraine. Paul Hockenos explains. Even though wind and solar energy are the backbone of renewables-based systems of the future, reduction of energy consumption is only win. (Photo by Ricardo Gomez Angel, CC-0) Often insulating and energy...

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