Sudarshan Varadhan and Nidhi Verma write on the Reuter’s website about the launch of new tenders in India to significant expand the electricity grid. This is certainly an important next step in India’s low-carbon energy transition. India seeks bids for $5 billion in transmission lines to fuel renewables growth India will launch $5 billion of … Continue reading Expansion of transmission lines in India planned to support growth in renewable energy
Category: energy transition
Concerns about the energy transition in EU’s neighbours
At a time when the EU strives to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, coal still represents more than half of electricity across much of the Western Balkans and other EU neighbouring countries, writes Janez Kopač, director of the Energy Community Secretariat on the Euractiv website. Making things worse, coal plants are intensively supported … Continue reading Concerns about the energy transition in EU’s neighbours
New report on China’s climate and energy policies
The fourth edition of the report “Mapping China’s Climate & Energy Policies” describes, maps and analyzes China’s national-level Party, government agencies, academic and research institutions, and state-affiliated enterprise climate actors in China on a policy by policy basis. The report is supported by the British Embassy in Beijing, the Embassy of the Federal Republic of … Continue reading New report on China’s climate and energy policies
Smart phones for smart electricity systems
Throughout Africa, access to electricity has been a challenge. Increasingly, however, mobile phones are everywhere. Eduardo Alejandro Martínez Ceseña, Joseph Mutale, Mathaios Panteli and Pierluigi Mancarella from the University of Manchester write on The Conversation website How data collected from mobile phones can help electricity planning Access to reliable and affordable electricity brings many … Continue reading Smart phones for smart electricity systems
Energy transition underway in Asia
The low-carbon energy transition includes many important choices for the future. Ben Smee and Daniel Hurst write in The Guardian that Japan has made an important choice. Australia’s largest export customer for thermal coal is scrapping plans to build power plants. Energy analysts forecast 'the end of coal' in Asia as Japanese investors back … Continue reading Energy transition underway in Asia
BP changes its tune on climate change
Where they will be when we fully decarbonise by 2050 is hard to know, but some oil giants are starting to talk more positively about needing to take climate change seriously. Steven Mufson writes about BP in an article in the Washington Post. Let us hope this is a positive step and not simply greenwashing. … Continue reading BP changes its tune on climate change
Public infrastructure makes it an obvious target for cutting emissions
Just this week, I was with people in Brussels and we were talking about the importance of addressing infrastructure in the low carbon energy transition. Sarah Petrevan and Joanna Kyriazis provide an article on the Policy Options website about the Canadian situation. As they say, over the next decade, C$180 billion is earmarked for roads, … Continue reading Public infrastructure makes it an obvious target for cutting emissions
“Climate change is not the only reason to ditch fossil fuels”
Three academics – Noel Healy, Associate Professor of Geography at Salem State University; Jennie C. Stephens, Professor of Sustainability Science & Policy, Director, School of Public Policy & Urban Affairs, Global Resilience Institute at Northeastern University; and Stephanie Malin, Associate Professor of Sociology, at Colorado State University – discuss in an article on The Conversation … Continue reading “Climate change is not the only reason to ditch fossil fuels”
New waste-plastic enhanced bitumen is also cheaper, stronger, longer lasting and more flexible than standard bitumen to resurface roads and fill potholes
We have a waste plastic problem but EiD was not expecting to see it used for resurfacing roads. Tom Bawden writes on The i newsletter about latest developments. Why plastic roads could be the future Carrier bags, bottles and nappies will be used to resurface roads and fill potholes across Cumbria – leading a … Continue reading New waste-plastic enhanced bitumen is also cheaper, stronger, longer lasting and more flexible than standard bitumen to resurface roads and fill potholes
The collapse of the UK’s nuclear power plans provides an opportunity to think again
Some day policy makers are going to realise that Bob Dylan is right, the answer my friends is blowing in the wind. Okay, or the sun . . . David Toke, Reader in Energy Policy at the University of Aberdeen analyses the current situation in Britain with companies pulling out from investing and building planned … Continue reading The collapse of the UK’s nuclear power plans provides an opportunity to think again
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