The global community has made remarkable progress in driving down the costs and increasing the use of key clean energy options. However, these impressive gains are still insufficient to meet our long-term climate goals while providing affordable, reliable, and secure energy supplies. source: mission innovationContinue Reading
This figure shows how annual average temperatures worldwide have changed since 1901. Surface data come from a combined set of land-based weather stations and sea surface temperature measurements. Satellite measurements cover the lower troposphere, which is the lowest level of the Earth’s atmosphere. “UAH” and “RSS” represent two different methods of analyzing the original satellite...Continue Reading
Solar energy is becoming a force to be reckoned with. Last year, China and the United States installed a record 15 and 7.5 gigawatts (GW) of solar, respectively. This year, the world could install as much as 66 GW.In 2015, investors poured $161 billion of capital into solar, the largest amount for any single power...Continue Reading
Total global wind energy capacity is expected to top 500GW by the end of the year, according to the World Wind Energy Association (WWEA). The figure stood at almost 456.5GW by the end of June 2016, meeting about 4.7% of the world’s electricity demand, WWEA said. Continue Reading
(in million metric tons of oil equivalent) This statistic represents electricity consumption around the world in 2008 and 2030, by region. In 2008, North America’s electricity consumption came to approximately 74 million metric tons of oil equivalent.Continue Reading
(in gigawatts) This statistic represents major countries at the end of year 2015, by cumulative solar PV capacity. China’s cumulative solar PV (photovoltaics) capacity reached 43.5 gigawatts at the end of 2015.Continue Reading
(in megawatts) This statistic represents the demand for solar photovoltaic (PV) power worldwide from 2007 to 2014 with a forecast for 2015 to 2020. In 2017, solar PV demand is expected to total 61,165 megawatts around the world. The United States has started a process to implement taxes on solar products from China and Taiwan,...Continue Reading
2009 estimate of finite and renewable planetary energy reserves (Terrawatt-years). Total recoverable reserves are shown for the finite resources. Yearly potential is shown for the renewables. Copyright Perez & Perez.Continue Reading
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