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The US -state of Hawaii has committed to generating 100 % of its power using renewable energy by the year 2045, demonstrating to other US states and island communities across the world that sustainable energy can be a reality. Read on at UN News.
In at least two-thirds of the world’s population, solar and onshore wind power have become the cheapest new sources of electricity. According to BloombergNEF, the levelized cost of electricity for onshore wind projects has fallen 9% to $44 a megawatt-hour since the second half of last year. Solar declined 4% to $50 a megawatt-hour. Read on here.
On the Spanish website Energías renovables, Pep Puig, chairman auf the Catalan and Spanish section of EUROSOLAR, points out:
The health emergency of the coronavirus clearly shows us that the continuation of the path of the 20th century leads us into the abyss. At the same time, it offers us the opportunity to rethink our society and rebuild it on the basis of a new worldview that sees the Earth as a planet where life means respecting certain boundaries. And one of these is the solar constant, because although our planet is a closed system in terms of materials, it is an open system in terms of energy, where life is based on the use of solar energy.
Not losing sight of the most important goals: European politicians, companies and activists called for green investment to restart growth after the coronavirus pandemic, saying fighting climate change and promoting biodiversity would rebuild stronger economies. Read on here.
Prof. Peter Droege, president of EUROSOLAR:
They were the soft and late effects of the oil crises of the 1970s, the finally successful efforts of Europe to introduce summer time and the time shift, based on a century of various attempts in both war and peace years. On 6 April 1980, most European countries, Germany ahead, adjusted their clocks to make working hours more synchronous with summer daylight. The first common summer time lasted from 6 April 1980, 1400 (CET) to 28 September 1980, 15:00 (CEST).
Today there are new discussions and efforts to reverse or change this, although certainly at least the PV-owners benefit a little from it. German Chancellor Angela Merkel recently tended to give priority to summer time all year round, an idea which is shared by some representatives of the renewable energy industry.