The sharp drop in energy demand due to the coronavirus pandemic will reduce the energy sector's emissions by about 2.5 years by 2050 in purely arithmetical terms, according to the latest BloombergNEF (BNEF) New Energy Outlook 2020 (NEO 2020). But even this 'support' is not enough to keep the temperature rise below 2 degrees.
The peak has been reached: As the latest calculations by BloombergNEF show, emissions from fuel combustion peaked last year. After a decline of around 8% in 2020 as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, energy emissions will rise again in the coming years as the economy recovers, but will never reach the 2019 level again. From 2027 they ...
2020 marks the five-year deadline for updating and increasing national climate commitments (known as NDCs) from the Paris Agreement, which was signed at COP21 
Our electricity sector is changing dramatically - from the growth of variable renewable electricity, cyber threats and extreme weather events. 
A hybrid renewable power plant combines at least two renewable generation technologies sharing one single connection point to the grid and may include storage. 
"New capacity anticipated this winter is almost wholly attributed to the Contracts for Difference scheme", says Lucy Dolton, Analyst at Cornwall Insight. 
Ørsted advances Nebraska wind project by acquisition and final investment decision of the 298 MW Haystack Wind project in Wayne County.
RWE has won two projects in Germany in the last tender and is expanding its onshore portfolio in Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt. 
How has the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the U.S. wind energy industry? The renewables were booming before the pandemic, but delays and lockdowns have slowed the whole sector down. Many people lost their jobs and the industry still struggles to get back on its feet. 
GE Chairman and CEO H. Lawrence Culp, Jr.: "We are improving our profit and cash performance with organic margin expansion in every segment except Aviation, though orders more broadly remain under pressure." 
The decrease in the results was driven by substantially lower Nordic power prices, partly offset by hedging activities. 
Automated Precision Europe GmbH (API) announced a new partnership with MeetConsult B.V., offering closer customer proximity in the Netherlands and better solutions for 3D metrology tasks 
Prysmian Group and Umicore will take part today in the “2020 World Optical Fibre and Cable Virtual Conference” with a joint presentation, to reinforce their partnership on the use of 100% sustainable, low environmental...
"We will pursue this course consistently in the coming years," explains Markus Lesser. 
German company windpunx has placed an order for the retrofitting of a large proportion of their managed wind turbines. 
The Windaba is the most important event of the South African wind industry, which is conducted as a pure online event this year due to the current pandemic restricitions. 
When it comes to wind park operations, data is invaluable – indeed, it is utterly critical to a healthy business. 
NKT has completed the cable repair of the high-voltage power cable system between the two countries 
During the following months, the prototype will undergo a series of tests to perform different types of measurements and obtain its type certificate 
wpd currently has five projects under construction in Poland, which were awarded to wpd in an auction in November 2018.