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Carbon emissions from energy to peak in 2025 in ‘historic turning point’, says IEA

This article was written by Jasper Jolly and originally published in The Guardian on October 27, 2022. Global carbon emissions from energy will peak in 2025 thanks to massively increased government spending on clean fuels in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, according to analysis by the world’s leading energy organisation. The International Energy Agency (IEA) said that…

Alberta’s ‘Quiet’ Transition to Renewables Moves Faster than Planned

This article was originally published in The Energy Mix on January 3, 2022. Alberta’s quiet transition to renewable energy from coal is moving faster than planned—fast enough that the province could hit its target of generating 30% of its electricity from renewables seven years ahead of its 2030 target. “Renewables have gone from being a…

Surging generation from solar, wind on track to push renewable market share to 30 percent by 2026

This article was written by Dennis Wamsted and Seth Feaster and originally published by the Institue for Energy Economics and Analysis and published on October 4, 2021. Data for the first eight months of this year show that wind generation has risen more than 25 percent since 2019 (pushing its market share to almost 9…