Spain and Portugal needs over 40 GW of flexibility to reach 100% renewables at...
The report Atlas of 100% Renewable Energy, recently launched by Wärtsilä, modelling over 145 countries and regions, shows that power systems with high levels of renewables need a significant amount of flexibility, through energy...
World adds record new renewable energy capacity in 2020
Global renewable energy capacity additions in 2020 beat earlier estimates and all previous records despite the economic slowdown that resulted from the COVID-19 pandemic. According to data released today by the International Renewable Energy...
Cities are trailblazers in the race to renewables
The Renewables in Cities 2021 Global Status Report from REN21 shows that more than 1 billion people – about 25% of the urban population – live in a city with a renewable energy target...
Fast-track energy transitions to win the race to zero
Proven technologies for a net-zero energy system already largely exist today, finds the preview of World Energy Transitions Outlook by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). Renewable power, green hydrogen and modern bioenergy will...
2020, the year with the ‘greenest’ energy thanks to record wind and solar photovoltaic...
Renewables produced 44% of the total energy generated in Spain last year, making 2020 the greenest year since national records began in 2007. In total, 110,450 GWh were generated from natural and inexhaustible resources...
Municipalities and citizens: key energy agents thanks to LECs
Greenward has been working for some time so that Spain’s Government incentivises, accompanies and enhances the participation of citizens in the energy system. Specifically, this should take place within the municipal environment, due to...
Energy transition investmen hit $500 billion in 2020 for first time
A new, broad measure of ‘energy transition investment’, compiled by BloombergNEF (BNEF), shows that the world committed a record $501.3 billion to decarbonization in 2020, beating the previous year by 9% despite the economic...
Corporate clean energy buying grew 18% in 2020, despite mountain of adversity
Corporations purchased a record of 23.7 GW of clean energy in 2020, up from 20.1 GW in 2019 and 13.6 GW in 2018, according to new research published by BloombergNEF (BNEF). The increase came...
Global investment in renewables to bounce back in 2021 to pre-COVID levels
Global CAPEX spending on renewables is poised to bounce back in 2021, rising 8.5% to $255 billion—in line with 2019 levels, according to IHS Markit Energy. Annual spending is expected to remain at those...
Ingeteam achieves 100 percent growth in O&M services for renewables in the United Kingdom
For Ingeteam, 2020 has been the year in which the company has strengthened its renewables business in the United Kingdom, winning contracts that have allowed it to double its maintained power in as little...
