Electricity – Energy Transition https://energytransition.org The Global Energiewende Mon, 04 Apr 2022 13:55:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 Sustained appetite for coal hampers Zimbabwe’s renewable energy prospects https://energytransition.org/2021/12/sustained-appetite-for-coal-hampers-zimbabwes-renewable-energy-prospects/ https://energytransition.org/2021/12/sustained-appetite-for-coal-hampers-zimbabwes-renewable-energy-prospects/#respond Thu, 23 Dec 2021 10:00:07 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=25569 One of the issues hindering Zimbabwe’s urgent development trajectory is its insistent energy shortages. This has seen the government place power production at the top of priorities to achieve an “Empowered and Prosperous Upper Middle-Income Society” between 2021 and 2030. While it is unavoidable that the country will have to increase access to modern as well as sustainable energy to fulfill...

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]]> https://energytransition.org/2021/12/sustained-appetite-for-coal-hampers-zimbabwes-renewable-energy-prospects/feed/ 0 Beyond Copper: How Virtual Power Plants Make the Smart Grid Smarter https://energytransition.org/2021/10/beyond-copper-how-virtual-power-plants-make-the-smart-grid-smarter/ https://energytransition.org/2021/10/beyond-copper-how-virtual-power-plants-make-the-smart-grid-smarter/#respond Thu, 28 Oct 2021 10:00:27 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=25039 Across Europe, information and communication technologies are optimizing clean-energy systems by making them more connected, intelligent, efficient, reliable, and cheaper. Germany and France lead the pack. Virtual power plants optimize supply and demand of green energy to flexibilize the energy infrastructure. (Photo by Bruno Glätsch, CC BY-SA 4.0) When most people think of clean energy systems...

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]]> https://energytransition.org/2021/10/beyond-copper-how-virtual-power-plants-make-the-smart-grid-smarter/feed/ 0 The Energy-Water Nexus in the Middle East: Will water scarcity compromise the Middle East’s green hydrogen future? https://energytransition.org/2021/09/the-energy-water-nexus-in-the-middle-east-will-water-scarcity-compromise-the-middle-easts-green-hydrogen-future/ https://energytransition.org/2021/09/the-energy-water-nexus-in-the-middle-east-will-water-scarcity-compromise-the-middle-easts-green-hydrogen-future/#respond Thu, 09 Sep 2021 10:00:33 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=24715 The race to become the world leader in hydrogen production has begun—and the Middle East is at the front of the pack. Hydrogen—and in particular—green hydrogen, is often portrayed as the “silver bullet” in decarbonization technology—able to decarbonize even the hardest-to-abate sectors. With some of the best renewable energy sources in the world (both solar and wind), many Middle Eastern countries...

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]]> https://energytransition.org/2021/09/the-energy-water-nexus-in-the-middle-east-will-water-scarcity-compromise-the-middle-easts-green-hydrogen-future/feed/ 0 Copenhagen’s Legendary Wind Park Middelgrunden at a Crossroads https://energytransition.org/2021/02/23275/ https://energytransition.org/2021/02/23275/#respond Wed, 10 Feb 2021 14:00:23 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=23275 The world’s largest wind farm two decades ago may not survive as a co-operative. At least this is what the Danish energy industry says. The co-op’s founders remain defiant – and optimistic. Paul Hockenos has the story. (CC BY-SA 2.0, Jimmy Baikovicius) Copenhagen, Denmark From atop one of the Middelgrunden wind park’s turbines in the western-most waters of the Baltic Sea, one surveys the urban...

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]]> https://energytransition.org/2021/02/23275/feed/ 0 EU Climate Law: business as usual or blueprint for climate action? https://energytransition.org/2020/12/23613/ https://energytransition.org/2020/12/23613/#respond Thu, 10 Dec 2020 14:00:58 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=23613 In what may seem a last ditch effort, the European Union has turned to the slow churning wheels of the law to stimulate climate action in 27 Member States (MS) towards a single goal: a carbon neutral Europe by 2050. European Commission (EC) president Ursula von der Leyen puts on a warm smile to say the text of the proposed European Union Climate Law is “actually rather short and it is rather...

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]]> https://energytransition.org/2020/12/23613/feed/ 0 Amidst coronavirus, conditions in South Africa are ideal to fast-track renewables https://energytransition.org/2020/07/amidst-coronavirus-conditions-in-south-africa-are-ideal-to-fast-track-re/ https://energytransition.org/2020/07/amidst-coronavirus-conditions-in-south-africa-are-ideal-to-fast-track-re/#comments Mon, 20 Jul 2020 13:00:30 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=22723 As the South African government prepares to inject a stimulus package equivalent to 10 per cent of its GDP into the economy to aid recovery from the coronavirus recession, energy analysts say the time is right to fast-track renewable energy. More than state-funded investment, though, this will need political will and policy that builds private-sector confidence. Leonie Joubert reports.

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]]> https://energytransition.org/2020/07/amidst-coronavirus-conditions-in-south-africa-are-ideal-to-fast-track-re/feed/ 1 Gender awareness: towards a sustainable and just energy transition. Part I https://energytransition.org/2020/06/22477/ https://energytransition.org/2020/06/22477/#respond Tue, 16 Jun 2020 12:30:21 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=22477 Gender frameworks within energy efficiency efforts are key for the construction of a more sustainable future. In this three-part series Kathrin Meyer explains the connection between energy and gender and why sustainable energy supply is not feasible without the use of gender-sensitive data. ( Public Domain) According to the United Nations, the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) number 5 – Achieve...

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]]> https://energytransition.org/2020/06/22477/feed/ 0 Mexico’s strange corona response: putting a brake on energy transition https://energytransition.org/2020/06/mexicos-strange-corona-response-putting-a-brake-on-energy-transition/ https://energytransition.org/2020/06/mexicos-strange-corona-response-putting-a-brake-on-energy-transition/#comments Mon, 15 Jun 2020 13:00:36 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=22539 Mexico’s government has had a bad corona run. The pandemic hit the country when the economy was already shrinking. But instead of profiting from the resulting drop in electricity demand of 9 percent in order to speed up the expansion of renewables and the much needed modernization of his country’s energy sector, President Lopez Obrador – widely referred to as AMLO – is instead sticking to the...

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]]> https://energytransition.org/2020/06/mexicos-strange-corona-response-putting-a-brake-on-energy-transition/feed/ 1 Siemens Gamesa Launches 14 MW Offshore Wind Turbine, World’s Largest https://energytransition.org/2020/05/siemens-gamesa-launches-14mw-offshore-wind-turbine-worlds-largest/ https://energytransition.org/2020/05/siemens-gamesa-launches-14mw-offshore-wind-turbine-worlds-largest/#respond Wed, 20 May 2020 13:30:31 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=22345 The new machine can be dialed up to 15 megawatts, and an even larger version is in the works, says Siemens Gamesa’s head of offshore technology. John Parnell reports for www.greentechmedia.com ( Public Domain) Siemens Gamesa on Tuesday launched the largest wind turbine ever publicly announced, a 14-megawatt model with a 222-meter rotor diameter meant for offshore wind farms.

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]]> https://energytransition.org/2020/05/siemens-gamesa-launches-14mw-offshore-wind-turbine-worlds-largest/feed/ 0 Will Coronavirus Improve Poland’s Chances of Meeting Its 2020 RES Target? https://energytransition.org/2020/04/will-coronavirus-improve-polands-chances-of-meeting-its-2020-res-target/ https://energytransition.org/2020/04/will-coronavirus-improve-polands-chances-of-meeting-its-2020-res-target/#comments Mon, 27 Apr 2020 13:00:09 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=22157 For the last two weeks of March, while Poland was experiencing the difficulties created by Covid-19, electricity demand dropped by as much as 8.5 percent. This drop has effectively increased the share of renewable energy sources within the national energy mix. How will the crisis provoked by the new virus affect Poland’s energy and climate policy? Will changes in the energy market make it possible...

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