World Council for Renewable Energy
#EnergyRevolutionNow
As The Guardian points out, renewable energies saw a rapid growth in 2020 despite the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. According to data by IEA, the renewable energy industry grew at the fastest pace since 1999. One reason for the continuing growth of solar and wind energy is the growing interest of governments and companies regarding the transition to clean energy and economic recovery from the pandemic's impacts.
A new article by Royce Kurmelovs in The Guardian outlines how solar energy has become the cheapest energy by far in the world. Forecasts like from IEA consistently underestimated the potential of solar power's contribution to global energy supply. The article also takes a look back at the history and challanges of the invention of PV modules.
Robinson Meyer comments in The Atlantic on US President Joe Biden's climate policy: "As decarbonization progresses, I think more officials will naturally understand the climate challenge in the frame of coalition building, not free riding. The question for me is whether—during this transition period—the politics of free riding help or hinder Biden’s attempt to forge a stronger pro-decarbonization coalition. If Biden commits to slashing greenhouse-gas emissions by 2030, will that make the public pay more attention to—and feel more skittish about—the rest of his climate-policy playbook? Will nervousness about his policies kick in before the policies themselves pass Congress? I suppose we’ll start to find out this week".
To raise awareness of the massacres taking place in the Tigray region of Ethiopia, WCRE is calling for #24hrsforTigray! On 9 March at 12:00 GMT until 10 March at 12:00 GMT, there will be a 24-hour programme of speakers from around the world speaking in global unity to highlight the deepening humanitarian crisis in Tigray, Ethiopia.
Aljazeera reports: With high population and little space, Kerala, a southern Indian state, is building countless solar panels on rooftops in a new programme, enabling cheap, citizen-owned energy for residents. 75,000 houses are to get panels. By 2022, a quarter of the state's electricity needs could be covered by solar energy.