Lithium is not just an evergreen song from Nirvana but is also a very important and special metal. The use of lithium-ion battery technology has challenged the dominance of petroleum with the emergence of Electric […]
Renewable energy sources have great potential to meet a larger portion of the electricity generation in the world even more than their current status. Although almost 75% of newly added capacity in the electricity generation […]
The number of countries that have more than 10 GW renewable energy capacity showed a 168% growth during the latest decade if including hydropower while the growth is even higher only with solar and wind, […]
The annual added renewable energy capacity in 2019 reached 176 GW. Solar photovoltaic (Solar PV) by far was the leading technology which has allocated more than half of the capacity. Solar PV accounted for 97 […]
The global weighted average of the Levelized Cost of Electricity (LCOE) from utility-scale renewable power generation has experienced a decline during the past decade. This decline was sharper for the solar photovoltaic (solar PV) than […]
Chile’s first hybrid industrial plant started to be built in the middle of the COVID-19 health crisis. This plant features a 60.9 MW solar power plant with 154,710 bifacial solar panels and a 90 MW […]
The Spain Government has given the green light to an ambitious draft climate law which tracks the ways for this southern EU country to become 100% renewable energy powered by 2050. In other words, the […]
IEA recently changed its forecasts about renewable annual addition in 2020. They had forecasted that it will be added 192 GW renewable capacity in 2020 but then the COVID-19 pandemic arrived. The revised forecast is […]
The global renewable investment was slightly more than USD 300 billion in 2018. It accounted for nearly 39% of the total investment in the power sector in that year. Although investment in this section rose […]
Currently, the most used source of energy is fossil fuel, even though it has harmful impacts such as pollution and greenhouse gas emission. But are there any better alternatives that have the potential to meet […]
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