Energy production was low, down 14 per cent compared to last year and the lowest level in over 50 years. Electricity output from renewable technologies dropped significantly because of less favourable weather conditions in 2021. Wind dropped 14 per cent, with further falls in both hydro and solar generation. Renewables share of generation dropped from a record high of 43.1 to 39.3 per cent despite a small increase in capacity.
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At the end of 2021, global renewable generation capacity amounted to 3,064 GW. Hydropower accounted for the largest share of the global total, with a capacity of 1,230 GW. Solar and wind energy accounted for equal shares of the remainder, with capacities of 849 GW and 825 GW respectively. Other renewables included 143 GW of bioenergy and 16 GW of geothermal, plus 524 MW of marine energy.
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This technical note explains the process of building the China Overseas Finance Inventory (COFI) Database, a comprehensive database covering both Chinese equity and debt foreign investments in the power-generation sector in Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) countries. The note explains how the authors addressed the challenge of matching power plants and their investments across publicly available and commercial databases and how they provided the final database as an open data source.
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Energy trends focuses on the supply and demand of coal, oil, gas, electricity and renewables in the United Kingdom. According to the update, low carbon sources generated 51.5 per cent of the total in Quarter 3 2021, down 3.2 percentage points on the previous year.
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Off-grid electricity production from renewables, although largely unrecorded in most countries, is believed to be expanding rapidly. By combining information from surveys, administrative data and desk research, the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) has attempted to illuminate major trends in off-grid renewable energy deployment around the world.
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Strengthening the transmission Investment Tax Credit (ITC) could further modernize our electricity infrastructure and rapidly deploy renewable energy. The factsheet “Clean Energy and Transmission” by Solar Energy Industries Association outlines the impact that lowering the threshold of the transmission ITC would have on clean energy deployment in the U.S.
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To keep up with the ongoing transformation of the energy sector in Europe, we need data that is accurate and up-to-date. This publication provides an overview of the most relevant annual energy-related statistics for the European Union as a whole and for each of its Member States.
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IRENA’s Renewable Energy Statistics 2021 provides data sets on power-generation capacity for 2011-2020, actual power generation for 2011-2019 and renewable energy balances for over 130 countries and areas for 2018-2019.
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This table by the International Energy Agency (IEA) highlights key policies and measures that support the deployment of electric vehicles (EVs) and zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs) for light-duty vehicle (LDV) and heavy-duty vehicle (HDV) models. It summarises existing measures as well as announced targets and ambitions by region and country. These take a variety of forms, such as fuel economy standards, CO2 emissions standards, deployment roadmaps, and EV sales or stock targets and ambitions.
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Check out this regularly updated compendium of global low-carbon hydrogen projects and their status by Pillsbury
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The Renewable Energy Policies for Cities: Experiences in China, Uganda and Costa Rica series of reports by IRENA aims to provide much-needed knowledge regarding the deployment of renewable energy in medium-sized cities, focusing on the challenges faced and successes achieved to date.
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Power Africa is a U.S. Government-led partnership that brings together the collective resources of over 170 public and private sector partners to double access to electricity in sub-Saharan Africa.
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As urbanization and use of renewables continue to rise, the smart renewable city (SRC) concept is increasingly taking hold. In its seminal report Renewables power smart cities, Deloitte developed an SRC framework to identify and classify cities globally that are deploying solar and/or wind power in connection with their smart city plans.
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As per IRENA’s latest release on renewable energy statistics, at the end of 2020, global renewable generation capacity amounted to 2,799 GW. Hydropower accounted for the largest share of the global total, with a capacity of 1,211 GW. Check out the key highlights of the report and the full publication that presents renewable power generation capacity statistics for the past decade.
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GWEC Market Intelligence released the preliminary rankings for the world’s top five wind turbine original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). Danish manufacturer Vestas held the title as the world’s largest supplier of wind turbines in 2020 across onshore and offshore wind, thanks to the manufacturer’s wide geographic diversification strategy, with new installations in 32 markets last year, and strong performance in the US, Australia, Brazil, Netherland, France, Poland, Russia and Norway.
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Solar energy in the United States is booming. Along with Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables and The Solar Foundation, the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) has highlighted the key trends and trajectories in the solar industry that demonstrate the diverse and sustained growth of solar across the country.
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The International Renewable Energy Agency’s (IRENA) Renewable Energy Statistics 2020 provides data sets on power-generation capacity for 2010-2019, actual power generation for 2010-2018 and renewable energy balances for over 130 countries and areas for 2017-2018.
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EY’s Renewable Energy Country Attractiveness Index (RECAI), May 2020 indicates that COVID-19 will have a short to mid-term impact, but the long-term drivers for investment in renewables remains strong, making the sector a safer haven for investment.
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At the end of 2019, global renewable generation capacity amounted to 2,537 GW. Hydropower...
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