Renewables Set To Dominate...Hopefully

Submitted by larryf13 on Thu, 06/30/2016 - 11:04am

There is little doubt that renewables are here to stay. There is simply no other way of preventing our environment from heating to a point where life for future generations will be very different in a most significant negative way. 

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory's (NREL) Renewable Electricity Futures Study (RE Futures) is an initial investigation of the extent to which renewable energy supply can meet the electricity demands of the continental United States over the next several decades.

The first version of the Global Atlas was released at the third Assembly of IRENA. The platform enables to search for hotspots and acts as a repository of the existing works at international, national and sub-national level. It is displaying a number of datasets from the contributing partners, and has yet limited functionalities to exploit those datasets.

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Electric vehicles can meet drivers’ needs enough to replace nearly 90 percent of vehicles now on the road. Could existing electric vehicles (EVs), despite their limited driving range, bring about a meaningful reduction in the greenhouse-gas emissions that are causing global climate change?

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