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Waste recycling and disposal

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7/8/2024 Feature / Mark Victory

Market outlook for pyrolysis oil, as a recycling process that reduces crude oil demand for plastics and fuels

Pyrolysis oil growth will fundamentally reshape the waste management, chemical, fuel and plastic landscape, according to Mark Victory, Senior Editor of recycling, at ICIS.*

Net zero / decarbonisation / energy transition

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7/8/2024 Feature / Will Dalrymple

Peak uncertainty – what the current debate about peak oil demand says about the energy transition

Several recent reports suggest that global oil demand either has peaked, or will peak, before 2030. On the other hand, oil supplier group OPEC+ vigorously rebuts these forecasts. Despite radically diverging visions, both sides do seem to agree about the fields of the coming battle: in emerging economies and between addition versus substitution. New Energy World Senior Editor Will Dalrymple investigates.

Thermal energy

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7/8/2024 Comment / James Macnaghten

How solar thermal storage can decarbonise industrial heat

While the growth of solar power for electricity generation has been spectacular, the use of solar-generated power to produce and store heat for industrial users is at a much earlier stage. But the technology and potential is there, writes James Macnaghten, CEO of the UK-based energy storage supplier Caldera.

VIDEO OF THE WEEK

7/8/2024 News

What’s behind the UK’s electricity grid?

Tune in to a new four-part video series from National Grid that takes people behind the scenes of the UK’s electricity system.

Renewables

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7/8/2024 News

Wind and solar outstrips fossil fuels in China, Europe and the UK

China’s energy landscape is undergoing a transformative shift as wind and solar power capacities have collectively surpassed coal for the first time, according to market analyst Rystad Energy. Meanwhile, the latest analysis from think tank Ember shows wind and solar overtaking fossil fuel power for the first time in the European Union (EU), and UK government statistics confirm new renewable power generation records.

Energy policy

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7/8/2024 News

UK government unveils record budget for renewables auction, while raising oil and gas windfall tax

The new Labour government has announced that a record £1.5bn will be available to clean energy projects under this month’s renewables auction round, with £1.1bn on offer to offshore wind developers. It has also raised the Energy Profit Levy (also known as the oil and gas windfall tax) and extended it to 2030.

Batteries

7/8/2024 News

Global battery investments dip for first time since 2020

Following four consecutive years of significant growth, this year is set to see a sizeable decline in global battery investments for the first time since 2020, according to new Rystad Energy research.

Wind

7/8/2024 News

TotalEnergies and RWE to develop 795 MW wind project in North Sea

RWE and TotalEnergies are to jointly deliver the OranjeWind offshore wind farm in the Netherlands, with TotalEnergies acquiring a 50% equity stake in the project from RWE.

Net zero / decarbonisation / energy transition

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31/7/2024 Comment / Nick Wayth

Getting real about the energy transition

Chief Executive of the Energy Institute Nick Wayth CEng FEI concludes his three-part series on the global energy transition by making some suggestions for improvement.

Energy transition

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7/8/2024 Feature / Tiffanie Chan,Jodi-Ann Wang

The critical role of finance in delivering just transition pathways

The question of a just transition is not about whether we will have a just or unjust transition. Rather, it is about how justice is contemplated, articulated and implemented in the transition to low greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and climate-resilient development. Implementing climate policies requires policymakers to grapple with crucial questions of whose justice is being affected and how, write Tiffanie Chan, a Policy Analyst at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics, and Jodi-Ann Wang, a Global Policy Analyst at the Just Transition Finance Lab, which is hosted by the same Institute.

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Market outlook for pyrolysis oil, as a recycling process that reduces crude oil demand for plastics and fuels

Peak uncertainty – what the current debate about peak oil demand says about the energy transition

How solar thermal storage can decarbonise industrial heat

What’s behind the UK’s electricity grid?

Wind and solar outstrips fossil fuels in China, Europe and the UK

UK government unveils record budget for renewables auction, while raising oil and gas windfall tax

Global battery investments dip for first time since 2020

TotalEnergies and RWE to develop 795 MW wind project in North Sea

Getting real about the energy transition

The critical role of finance in delivering just transition pathways