Dr. Amani Abou-Zeid is the current African Union (AU) commissioner for Energy and Infrastructure. She believes that cross-border approaches are critical for clean energy affordability. Credit: Aimable Twahirwa/IPS by Aimable Twahirwa (abu dhabi) Wednesday, April 17, 2024 Inter Press Service ABU DHABI, Apr 17 (IPS) – Investors, regulators, researchers, policymakers, and …
Read More »Dangerous Scramble for Renewable Energy Resources
Opinion by Jomo Kwame Sundaram (kuala lumpur, malaysia) Wednesday, September 20, 2023 Inter Press Service KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Sep 20 (IPS) – The growing and changing material requirements for new technologies have triggered natural resource scrambles for strategic minerals, generating dangerous rivalries fought out in the global South. Scrambles for resources …
Read More »Leveraging Africa’s Renewable Energy Potential: A Call for Global Partnership
Over half the people in Africa still don’t have electricity access — a major contributor to persistent poverty. Credit: Energy 4 Impact Senegal Opinion by Philippe Benoit, David Sandalow (washington dc) Wednesday, July 19, 2023 Inter Press Service WASHINGTON DC, Jul 19 (IPS) – Africa is caught in the crosshairs of …
Read More »Cooperatives in Argentina Help Drive Expansion of Renewable Energy
A picture of photovoltaic panels in the solar park in the small town of Armstrong, in the Pampa region, the heart of Argentina’s agricultural production. The park belongs to an electric cooperative, which until 2017 only bought energy to distribute, but now generates electricity as well. CREDIT: FARN by Daniel …
Read More »UN chief calls for renewable energy ‘revolution’ for a brighter global future
“Only renewables can safeguard our future, close the energy access gap, stabilize prices and ensure energy security,” he said in a video message to the 13th Session of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) Assembly, taking place this weekend in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. “Together, let’s jumpstart a renewables …
Read More »Rural Backlash Against ‘Renewable’ Energy: 67 Rejections of Solar in U.S. Over Past 11 Months
By Robert Bryce for RealClearPolitics The hype about wind and solar energy keeps colliding with the hard reality of land-use conflicts. Nowhere is that more obvious than in Ohio, where 41 townships have rejected or restricted the expansion of wind and/or solar projects since last November. In addition, at least …
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