Opinion:
¶ “EU’s Guidance For Carbon Price Through 2050 Is Staggering” • Pricing carbon aggressively is a conservative, market-oriented fiscal policy that puts costs on negative externalities, following in the well-precedented paths of pricing tobacco and alcohol. The US and Canada aren’t pricing carbon high enough. Europe is doing it the best. [CleanTechnica]
Retired oil rigs (Ben Wicks, Unsplash, cropped)
¶ “Ukraine Needs Renewable Energy And Action, Not Empty Promises” • Global leaders convened at the Climate Ambition Summit just as innocent lives in Ukraine are tragically lost daily due to Russian-led attacks. This juncture demands swift action to develop clean-energy solutions for the turmoil caused by Russia’s reliance on fossil fuels. [Counterpunch]
World:
¶ “Extreme Heat Scorches Large Parts Of South America As Winter Ends” • Just as spring began in the Southern Hemisphere, it felt like the peak of summer across several countries in South America, where highs pushed above 40°C (104°F). Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil have all experienced record September temperatures. [CNN]
Lima, Peru (Creators Brand, Unsplash)
¶ “Paired Rural Dams And Super Pits As Alternative Batteries” • Australia still has a large agricultural industry (in between the mines), and all of these properties have dams, for irrigation of crops and for watering livestock. Around the various dams, there is a lot of space. What if these dams could be used to generate and store electricity? [CleanTechnica]
¶ “Wuling Bingo Sales Have Hit 100,000 Units In China Since Launch!” • The Wuling Bingo is a cool, small 5-door hatchback launched earlier this year in China. It also starts at the low price of an appetizing $8,681.51. Wuling recently announced that the Bingo has now passed the 100,000 units mark in sales in China in just about 6 months. [CleanTechnica]
Wuling Bingo (Wuling image)
¶ “Wind And Solar Power May Vastly Surpass The UK’s Energy Demand” • Britain’s energy needs could be met entirely by wind and solar, according to a policy brief published today by Oxford’s Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment. Wind and solar can provide significantly more energy than the highest energy demand forecasts for 2050. [Mirage News]
¶ “‘Staggering’ Green Growth Gives Hope For 1.5°C, Says Global Energy Head” • The prospects of the world staying within the 1.5°C limit on global heating have been made brighter in the past two years owing to the “staggering” growth of renewable energy and green investment, according to Fatih Birol, the chief of the world’s energy watchdog. [The Guardian]
Installing a solar system (Bill Mead, Unsplash, cropped)
¶ “Australian Households On Track To Add Near-Record Rooftop Solar Capacity To Electricity Grid” • Australian households are on track to add 3 GW of rooftop solar capacity to the electricity grid this year, though investment in large-scale wind and solar projects remains all but stalled, according to the country’s Clean Energy Regulator. [The Guardian]
¶ “Techno-Fixes To Climate Change Aren’t Living Up To The Hype” • The IEA updated its road map for the energy sector to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. It doubles down on the need to switch to renewable energy swiftly while minimizing the use of technologies that are still unproven, such as carbon capture and hydrogen fuels. [The Verge]
Protest against carbon capture (Matt Hrkac, CC-BY-SA 2.0)
¶ “Ukraine Purchased Diesel Fuel For Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant After Its Occupation” • “Ukraine and Energoatom purchased and transported [fuel] through Russian checkpoints. We asked to agree on a corridor to supply it so that when there was a blackout seven times, we would not have an accident,” Energy Minister Herman Halushchenko said. [Yahoo]
US:
¶ “EV Penetration Exceeds 30% In Four California Counties” • According to registration data used as a proxy for sales, there were four counties in the US with EV market penetration above 30% last December, all in California. Santa Clara County stood highest at 35%, Marin County was at 34%, and Alameda and San Mateo Counties were at 32% each. [CleanTechnica]
Ford Mustang Mach E (PooleHarbour, CC-BY-SA 4.0)
¶ “DOE Funds Nine Technologies for Long-Duration Energy Storage” • Energy storage is growing. In 2020, California had 500 MW of battery storage. Now, it has 5,000 MW. And the US DOE announced it has selected nine proposals for long-duration energy storage test projects. Its goal is for costs for long-duration storage drop 90% by this decade’s end. [CleanTechnica]
¶ “Farm Aid 2023 Aimed To Encourage Congress To Improve Agricultural Sustainability” • Farm Aid is an annual benefit concert held in the US to support American farmers. The event aims to raise awareness and funds for family farms and promote a sustainable, family farm-centered system of agriculture in America. [CleanTechnica]
Farm Aid (Farm Aid)
¶ “Deloitte Report Details Importance Of Energy Storage To US Power Grid” • A new report from Deloitte, “Elevating the role of energy storage on the electric grid,” provides a comprehensive framework to help the power sector navigate renewable energy integration, grid flexibility and reliability, and electrification and decentralization support. [POWER Magazine]
¶ “Dominion Proposes A Pilot To Test Longer-Lasting Battery Storage” • Dominion Energy is seeking regulatory approval for a battery storage pilot that would be capable of discharging stored power over longer periods of time than its current technology allows, a development seen as a key component of the transition to renewable energy. [Virginia Mercury]
Have a magnificently easy day.
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