Tag: Renewable Energies
Nearly a third of electricity was from renewable sources worldwide in 2023
It’s a first. In 2023, the world will have crossed the threshold of 30% electricity production from renewable sources, according to the Ember energy research center. Globally, renewable energies have…
Bruno Le Maire wants solar panels “made in France”
“We must now accelerate, to move to 6 GW of additional capacity per year – that is to say double what we do today.” The visit to a photovoltaic park…
A park stopped in Loire-Atlantique after the fire of a wind turbine
A wind turbine at Derval park, in Loire-Atlantique, caught fire Thursday morning. According to firefighters, the fire broke out around 8 a.m. in a wind farm located on the edge…
France will be able to meet its electricity needs, promises RTE
France seems to be attacking the year 2024 more calmly in terms of energy. Plagued by electricity supply difficulties due to corrosion problems on several reactors for two years, the…
Azerbaijan chooses former oil company executive as president
He is certainly the current Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of the country. But in Azerbaijan, Mukhtar Babayev is best known for having been one of the managers of…
61% of the country’s electricity from renewable sources in 2023, a record
The production of renewable energies in Portugal reached a new historic record in 2023, and provided 61% of the electricity consumed in the Iberian country, the manager of national energy…
Holidays, good weather and the return of nuclear power… France was able to export a record volume of electricity on Friday
France had energy to spare on Friday. The country exported a record volume of electricity to its neighbors on December 22, the electricity network manager, RTE, announced on Tuesday. Export…
Renewable energies exceed 50% of electricity consumption, a first
It’s a first. This year, in Germany, renewable energies represented more than half of electricity consumption, according to industry figures published on Monday. A step forward as the government plans…
If you don’t understand everything about the agreement adopted in Dubai, you’ve come to the right place
“Unprecedented”, “historic”, “disappointing”, “insufficient”. Since the closing of COP28 in Dubai on December 13 (one day after the date initially planned), everyone has used their own adjective to characterize the…
Between battles over fossil fuels and activists, the best of this Sunday’s declarations
Declarations are pouring out at COP28 this weekend. To better navigate this Big-Mic-Mac, 20 minutes offers a best-of of the most essential information for this Sunday. Fossil fuel advocates For…