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Author: Marc Eglon

Marc Eglon

Mobilise: introducing our innovative platform for securing wind technicians

Quadrupling global wind capacity to 3TW this decade means adding tens of thousands of new wind technicians to handle installations and O&M. Our new software platform Mobilise helps overcome the scaling challenges by helping clients find compliant, work-ready technicians – and helping contractors find opportunities and manage their work life.

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1.4 TW of Offshore Wind by 2050 – OREAC

On World Oceans Day, OREAC (Ocean Renewable Energy Action Coalition) outlines a vision for offshore wind to grow from 30GW today to 1,400 GW by 2050, enough to power 10 per cent of global electricity demand whilst reducing CO2 by 3 billion tonnes per year.

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Carbon Capture – A Primer

There are two general approaches to keep warming to below a certain level – reducing emissions and removing previous emissions from the sky. We need to do both.

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Wind and Solar Overtake Coal in EU

Climate think-tank Sandbag’s sixth annual report, “The European Power Sector in 2019” highlights the rise in EU solar and wind, which overtook coal for the first time in 2019.

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PV cells that generate power at night?

One of the biggest challenges of solar is balancing load using storage to deliver power when the sun isn’t shining. But what if we could run PV cells in reverse and generate electricity at night? Turns out we can.

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Record US renewables investment: $55.5B in 2019

Despite a conservative start to 2019, the US hit a record $55.5bn in renewable energy investments in 2019, eclipsing 2018. The figure is the result of a late-2019 surge in offshore wind financing as the Production Tax Credit winds down in 2020.

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Blackrock embraces sustainability

Laurence D Fink, CEO of Blackrock – the world’s largest asset manager with almost $7 trillion invested – announced that the company will divest from investments that ‘present a high sustainability-related risk’.

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