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Tag: Energy Transition

Pie chart for business desire on right, with summary quote on left: 97% of businesses globally believe their governments should transition away from fossil fuels to a renewable-based electricity system, with 44% advocating for this change within 5 years and an additional 34% within 10 years.
April 23, 2025 Jim McClelland

Tipping point for business attitudes to renewables

News: Poll shows 97% business leaders back shift from fossil fuels to renewables, warning majority will relocate if governments fail to act.

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Rusted industrial extraction fan in external wall.
June 19, 2024 Jim McClelland

Is the global energy transition starting to stall?

News: Despite record renewables, report warns energy transition is stalling, held back by regional disparities and inaction on heat and fuel.

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Offshore wind turbine floating out at sea on three-column yellow platform.
April 23, 2024 Jim McClelland

Scotland green-lights floating offshore wind farm

News: Planning approval has been granted for what is set to become the world’s biggest floating offshore wind farm off the coast of Scotland.

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Multiple solar arrays cover woodland hilltops, with mountains in distance.
March 28, 2024 Jim McClelland

Record, but inequitable, growth in renewables

News: Global growth in renewables broke new records last year, however, this transition success story plays out very unevenly worldwide.

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Workers in safety gear and hard hats on solar panel roof at sunset, with wind turbine in background.
December 6, 2023 Jim McClelland

Energy transition to add 40 million jobs by 2050

News: Energy transition set to create 40 million more jobs by 2050, but they will be unevenly distributed worldwide without policy change.

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Graphic shows wind turbines and solar panels linked to energy storage for vertical farm, set in landscape of countryside with mountains behind.
June 14, 2023 Jim McClelland

LDES: ‘Future of Energy’ in The Times

Future of Energy: Article for report in ‘The Times’ newspaper explores innovation and investment in Long Duration Energy Storage (LDES).

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Red wheeled modular transporters carrying enormous cylindrical steel component, viewed end-on, with heavy metal chains in foreground.
June 6, 2023 Jim McClelland

Workhorse of heavy industry goes electric

News: Innovation in green transportation sees SPMT workhorse of heavy industry switch to electric power, cutting CO2 and NOx, noise and waste.

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Smiling installation operative in yellow high-vis jacket presses button on Kensa Shoebox heat pump unit, pictured indoors with copper pipes above.
May 23, 2023 Jim McClelland

Sustainability will be measured in heat pumps

Heat pumps have become the new metric of success for sustainability in the built environment, argues Jim McClelland in this opinion piece.

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Aerial shot of wind turbines dotted along winding road through beautiful rural landscape.
March 30, 2023 Jim McClelland

Call to invest $35 trillion in transition tech by 2030

News: Global energy transition is off-track, with trillions of Dollars of investment needed to maintain 1.5°C climate target, reports IRENA.

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Multi-storey commercial building exterior, showing both Fortum and Microsoft logos.
March 22, 2022 Jim McClelland

Recycling waste heat from data centres in Helsinki

News: New clean-energy data centre region in Finland plans for recycling waste heat into existing 900km district network with 250,000 users.

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