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WHAT'S NEXT?: By 2025 solar energy will be the cheapest energy option globally. In 2040, oil and natural gas are expected to make up nearly 60 percent of global supplies, while nuclear and renewables will be approaching 25 percent. Improvements in energy efficiency in lighting and home appliances are expected to continue to push residential electricity use lower. The burning of coal will fall out of favor. Transportation energy consumption will be rising in correlation to growth in automated vehicles in the coming years.

[New] Innovative Financial Initiatives for Africa will help close adaptation finance gaps, enhance access to existing finance and mobilize new public and private sector investment.
[New] Coregas is actively supporting innovations that will drive a clean energy future for Australia and is proud to be working with local players achieving significant milestones towards a cleaner energy future.
[New] The Political Economy of Saving the Planet, the global economy must spend an average of $4.5 trillion per year between 2024-2050 in clean energy investments in order to hit the 2050 IPCC emissions reduction target.
[New] Artificial intelligence, improved data analytics, energy grids, new methods for delivering and managing energy storage and delivery could make energy systems around the world cleaner, more efficient and lead to significant productivity gains in the energy sector itself.
[New] The African Enterprise Challenge Fund has launched a $1.2 million Innovation Fund to unlock the potential of renewable energy to create new business opportunities.
[New] The world's commitment to decarbonizing the global economy by developing clean, renewable energy to producing more electric vehicles, will be an essential pillar of demand for silver.
[New] GM has announced plans to produce some 250 million Ultium cells a year by 2025 and, once fully online, the Lordstown facility should produce at least 30 gigawatt-hours of batteries annually - that's 50% more than Tesla's Nevada-based Gigafactory is capable of.
[New] With increasingly loud demands for renewables-based electricity supplies in places such as the UK, more energy storage is going to require a great many new batteries.
[New] Another key point from Battery Day is that once Tesla achieves a 3 TWh battery production capability, it will change the entire face of the energy and power delivery system.
[New] The goal of the USAID Regional Water and Vulnerable Environment activity is to strengthen regional capacity to manage shared water resources and mitigate environmental risks in the Syr Darya and Amu Darya river basins.
[New] New, 'green economy' initiatives from the Biden Administration will trigger aggressive plans for renewable energy development, smart grids and a large electric vehicle (EV) industry.
[New] If the central government allows the current levels of coal plant development to be maintained, it will at best divert important resources away from its clean energy transition, and at worst make China's carbon neutral goals difficult if not impossible to achieve.
[New] Combined heat and power systems (CHP), for example, could supply clean power and heat energy to individual building complexes.
[New] Based on projected power and energy capacity capital costs for 2050, hydrogen storage with up to 2 weeks of discharge duration is expected to be cost-effective in future power systems.
[New] A Type-1 Civilization could harness all the energy that falls on a planet from its parent star, a Type-2 civilization can harness all the energy produced by its parent star (through systems like a Dyson sphere), and a Type-3 civilization can harness the total energy in a galaxy.
[New] California is poised to add 1.7 GW of energy storage in 2021, which will be sufficient to power 13 million homes.
[New] China could be looking to secure long-term energy deals with Middle Eastern nations to increase the international use of its currency.
[New] Each vehicle will be charged using zero-emissions energy via hydrogen fuel-cell technology created in collaboration with AFC Energy.
[New] By 2040, renewable energy could provide more than 40% of all power generation capacity in Sub-Saharan Africa.
[New] France aims to increase its use of renewable energies to produce a third of its power by 2030 and sees wind turbines as a key weapon.
[New] World's wealthiest nations will need 2,594 GW of energy storage and 933 GW of flexible gas power capacity capable of running on future fuels.

Last updated: 09 April 2021

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