Interesting stats on EVs and energy use in the US, developments in wind and tidal power, a plastic recycling microfactory, and an "unprecedented collapse" in EU fossil fuel generation.
TransitionZero is an organization that uses satellite imagery, energy transition data, and computer modelling to provide policy makers and stakeholders with the information they need to accelerate the transition to a green energy future.
The company has just published a detailed report that claims building out transmission grids could save $3 trillion in the global transition to a green energy future. The report calls transmission grids "net-zero lifelines" and points out that many countries could leverage their "vast wind and solar resources" to become net exporters of energy to other countries.
I like what the report says about creating “corridors of clean energy flow” and the regional maps showing where these corridors could be developed.
Of course to make this vision a reality, we'll need international cooperation and multilateral investment all around the world. Do you think we'll be able to overcome the current trend towards increasing isolationism and protectionism and make it happen?
(My guess is yes. Maybe not in the next few years – nor without the occasional pendulum backswing. But eventually. And inevitably.)
The IEA-OES has released a roadmap on how the world's leading nations can develop 300 GW of ocean energy by 2050 – creating 680,000 jobs and removing over 500 million tonnes of carbon emissions in the process.
