Siobhan Hall
Senior editor, EU energy policy 
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February 5, 2019 06:30 UTC 
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Renewables are the big winners in the European Union’s new power market rules, which are designed to help the grid cope with ever increasing shares of variable sources such as wind and solar. This is part of the EU’s long-term push to cut its greenhouse gas emissions and reduce fossil fuel imports. |
Neil Ford
Freelance consultant and journalist
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March 20, 2018 00:01 UTC
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Morocco is taking a lead in the promotion of renewable energy in North Africa, aiming to develop wind and solar to meet both domestic electricity demand and export power to Europe. Interconnectors to Spain and Portugal are under consideration. |
Robert Perkins
Senior writer/editor 
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March 5, 2018 04:10 UTC
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Exactly when the world’s thirst for oil starts to ebb as a shift to cleaner, renewable energy gathers pace is increasingly occupying forecasters on both sides of the debate. The booming growth of renewable energy and high hopes for electric cars are seen equally as a challenge or a panacea by the producers of fossil fuels and environmental groups alike. |
Diana Kinch
Editor-in-Chief, Steel Markets Daily 
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December 12, 2017 17:30 UTC
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Offshore wind is “on a high” with costs having fallen by around 50% since 2015, the Global Wind Energy Council said in its Wind Energy Outlook 2016: Wind Power to Dominate Power Sector Growth document. GWEC outlines scenarios where wind, offshore and onshore, could supply 20% of global electricity by 2030, generating 2,110 GW, creating 2.4 million new jobs, reducing CO2 emissions by more than 3.3 billion metric tons/year and attracting annual investment of some EUR200 billion. Download full report — Steel for windpower: a burgeoning market |
Andrew Moore
Managing editor, Platts Coal Trader 
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June 30, 2017 16:59 UTC
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Over lunch at a recent energy conference, a fellow attendee asked where I worked and what I did, and I explained that I lead coverage of the US thermal coal market for S&P Global Platts. The gentleman, who worked for a group that finances renewable energy projects, had several questions about coal, and each answer seemed to only increase his incredulity. “So, let me understand,” said the gentleman finally. “You are bullish on coal?” |
John Kingston
Director of Global Market Insights |
June 28, 2017 05:01 UTC
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It’s been called Sayre’s Law: The idea that the viciousness of battles in academia is in inverse proportion to the importance of the issue at the center of the fight. That’s not the case, however, with the conflict that is raging over the issuance of two papers by the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science (PNAS) in the United States. It speaks to the question that many advanced countries are facing as several trends merge and, in some cases, collide: How much of a country’s power needs can be supplied by intermittent renewable sources of energy given trends in lower costs of generation, the pace of technological change in storage and the costs of adaptation? And what are the costs to get there? |
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Neil Ford
Freelance consultant and journalist |
June 27, 2017 00:01 UTC
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Further evidence that the tide is moving quickly in favor of renewables in the Middle East and North Africa is being provided by the rejuvenation of the sector in Egypt. |
Jeff Ryser
Reporter
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June 8, 2017 05:01 UTC
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Four big US utilities have each reported in recent days substantial carbon dioxide emission reductions over the past few years due principally to an increase in the use of natural gas, renewable generation and to the sale or closure of coal-fired assets. The four utilities — Duke Energy, Southern Company, American Electric Power and Xcel Energy — have reported CO2 reductions of between 28% and 37% over an 11-year period starting in 2005. Each of the four have made changes to their generating portfolios to take advantage of lower-price renewables that attract federal and state-level subsidies but which also, the utilities say, increasingly appeal to their customers. |
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Neil Ford
Freelance consultant and journalist
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February 21, 2017 05:01 UTC
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Kenya is proving an excellent testing ground for initiatives that prove successful elsewhere in Sub-Saharan Africa. It was the home of the pay-as-you-go model of mobile telecoms services and still has the highest penetration of mobile banking anywhere in the world. |
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Neil Ford
Freelance consultant and journalist
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February 8, 2017 05:01 UTC
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Reports on the success of Kenya’s electrification program seem too good to be true. Official figures suggest that the proportion of the population with access to electricity at home has increased from 27% in 2013 to 55% this year, putting the country on course to achieve its goal of 95% electrification by 2021. |
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