Schlagwort: renewable electricity

European Parliament vote sends strong positive signal for renewables investments

Wind- and Solarenergy

Only 10 GW of new wind farm projects reached Final Investment Decisions (FID). And orders for wind turbines were down 47% year on year.

EU wind installations up by a third despite challenging year for supply chain

Wind- and Solarenergy

The number of corporate renewable PPAs held up quite well in 2022 but would have been much higher if there were more investments in new wind farms coming

Energy security: France takes emergency measures to boost renewables

Wind- and Solarenergy

France gets around 20% of its electricity from renewable sources – 8% from wind energy, but it needs more to meet its climate goals while reinforcing energy security.

The EU must speed up renewables and renewable hydrogen to secure industry energy supplies and keep up the pace with green industry projects, say WindEurope and EUROFER

Nordex Windenergieanlage

The availability and affordability of renewables and renewable hydrogen for industries such as steel ready to decarbonise at large scale must become the EU’s top priority for reaching climate neutrality and accelerating independence from Russian fossil fuel supplies

New German Government to speed up wind energy expansion

The new Government wants to have 80% renewable electricity by 2030 compared to the earlier target of 65%. This is in line with the EU’s proposed new 40% renewable energy target for 2030.

Renewable electricity growth is accelerating faster than ever worldwide, supporting the emergence of the new global energy economy

tronger policies and raised climate goals leading into COP26 are driving renewables to new records, but faster deployment across all key sectors is needed to reach net zero

Wind will be half of electricity in a climate neutral Europe

Renewables are now 38% of all the electricity consumed in the EU, and that’s set to keep rising rapidly. But electricity is only one quarter of the energy we consume in Europe today.

RE100 reaches 300-member milestone

As companies’ awareness of the impacts of climate change has grown, and with the opportunity to save money from wind and solar increasingly evident, buying renewables has moved from the fringe of corporate social responsibility practice to become a core element for business in securing their energy needs whilst driving down emissions and building positive relationships with employees, customers, investors and governments