It may only be mid-spring but right now although little #electricity is being generated by #wind (2.5 GW or 7.8% of #UK demand) a very healthy 8.6 GW or 26.6% is being met by #SolarEnergy. #Gas is down at 5.7 GW or 17.6%.
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It may only be mid-spring but right now although little #electricity is being generated by #wind (2.5 GW or 7.8% of #UK demand) a very healthy 8.6 GW or 26.6% is being met by #SolarEnergy. #Gas is down at 5.7 GW or 17.6%.
#RishiSunak is such a scumbag. He's happy to play fast and loose with the climate for the sake of some grubby vote grabbing.
#UK #Politics #Tories #Environment #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #FossilFuels
It's a nice #SunnyDay outside and it really feels like spring. The #bees are busy making use of the #flowers, while the flowers are busy making use of the bees.
The #UK #ElectricyDemand is currently 32 GW and of that, 25.2% is coming from #SolarEnergy, 17.1% is coming from #WindEnergy, 16.8% is coming from #NuclearEnergy and 9.9% is coming from #Biomass and only 7% is coming from #Gas. There is also a fair amount coming from continental Europe through the various interconnections.
https://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/
#Environment #Electricity #FossilFuels #GreenhouseGases Renewables #RenewableEnergy
#GreenhouseGases #Environment #Pollution #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #Corporations
Right now, less that 5.5% of the #UK's #ElectricityDemand is being provided by #Gas and nearly 46% by #WindEnergy and 13.4% by #SolarEnergy.
https://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/
#GreenhouseGases #Energy #Renewables #RenewableEnergy #FossilFuels
#Environment #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #FossilFuels #Corporations
Right now, #FossilFuels are accounting for just 5.9% of the #UK's #Electricity generation. #WindEnergy is contributing 45.5%, #SolarEnergy 19.0% and #NuclearEnergy 13.9%. The rest comes from interconnects from continental #Europe and small amounts from #Hydropower and #Biomass. Some is also being exported to #Ireland.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/20/fossil-fuels-oil-and-gas-clean-energy
#Environment #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #Pollution #GreenhouseGases
Mozambique is in danger of being locked in to a fossil fuel future by corporate courts which can bully the government and override the local justice system #Africa #ISDS #FossilFuels
https://www.bilaterals.org/?billion-dollar-exposure-investor
2023 was the hottest year on record
#ClimateChange #FossilFuels #capitalism
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/09/2023-record-world-hottest-climate-fossil-fuel
Over the past ten days or so, #WindEnergy has provided a large fraction of the #UK's #Electricity demand, often above half of it. Even now, it is providing 47% and keeping #Gas down to single figure in percentage terms. There was a lull overnight but the new #storm, #Gerrit is currently the main source.
Biden has a chance to show that the world’s biggest exporter of oil and gas is actually going to change its ways. It’s not clear if he’ll take it
More than 200 nations pledged last week in Dubai that they would be “transitioning away from from fossil fuels”. Some cheered and some scoffed; we’ll soon know if the world’s biggest producer of oil and gas – the United States – meant what it signed, or if it was just more (literal) hot air.
That’s because the US Department of Energy (DoE) must decide whether to stop rubber-stamping the single biggest fossil-fuel expansion on earth, the buildout of natural gas exports from the Gulf of Mexico. So far they have granted every export license anyone has requested, and as a result the US has become the biggest gas exporter on planet earth. If they keep it up, the veteran energy analyst Jeremy Symons says that before long US liquefied natural gas exports will produce more greenhouse gases than everything that happens on the continent of Europe.
They should have stopped long ago – in part because of the damage these giant terminals are doing to the people, the fish and the air of Louisiana and Texas. But if the DoE keeps approving these licenses now, it will fly in the face of their promise in Dubai. “Transitioning away from fossil fuels” doesn’t mean stopping all use of coal, gas and oil tomorrow; sadly, that’s impossible. But it clearly means not building new infrastructure to expand the production and sale of hydrocarbons.
That’s why 230 groups, including the ones we represent, have called on the DoE to pause all new export licenses until they fully revamp their procedures for figuring whether these permits are, as the statute requires, in “the public interest”. At the moment, the government uses a 2014 standard for making that determination – but since 2014 the price of renewables has dropped like a rock, and the temperature has soared higher than any time in human history.
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#Biden #fossilFuels #oil #environment #climateChange #climateCrisis
IEA report says demand is expected to grow in India, China but decline in United States, European Union.#Climate #ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels #Africa #Asia #AsiaPacific #China #Europe #India #MiddleEast #US&Canada
Global coal use to reach record high in 2023, energy agency says
A contentious fossil fuels agreement stirred up anger while states found to be falling behind on climate commitments.#BusinessandEconomy #Climate #ClimateCrisis #Environment #FossilFuels #Politics #Sustainability
COP28 Dubai is over: Four key highlights from the UN climate summit
While latest COP28 draft text avoids phrase 'phase out', campaigners say it is an improvement on the last one.#Economy #Climate #ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels #UnitedNations #MiddleEast #UnitedArabEmirates
New UN climate deal calls for ‘transitioning away’ from fossil fuels
Australia's government struggles with climate contradictions as it commits to damaging fossil fuel projects.#Features #Climate #ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels #AsiaPacific #Australia
Australia is preparing to burn – more fossil fuels
Flurry of shuttle diplomacy under way at UN-led negotiations in UAE as countries fight over wording of potential deal.#Climate #ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels #UnitedNations #MiddleEast #UnitedArabEmirates
COP28 climate talks go into overtime amid standoff over fossil fuels