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Onshore Wind Power Now as Affordable as Any Other Source, Solar to Halve by 2020
The cost of generating power from onshore wind has fallen by around a quarter since 2010, with solar photovoltaic (PV) electricity costs falling by...
Manufacturing Transformation Set to Create a Two-Speed World
A new report launched today by the World Economic Forum reveals that only 25 countries are in the best position to gain as production...
European Union Can Meet Ambitious Renewable Energy Targets
In November 2017, the European Parliament's Committee on Industry, Research and Energy recommended that by 2030 a minimum of 35% of all energy consumed...
Cybersecurity Threats Outpacing Abilities of Governments and Companies
Cybersecurity threats are outpacing the ability to overcome them unless all stakeholders begin to cooperate. The increasingly networked, digitized, and connected world is vulnerable...
Financing and Managing Nuclear Energy Risks: The UK Model
Nuclear Power Plants (NPPs) have long lifetimes and low running costs, but they require high up-front capital expenses and a long planning and construction...
The clean energy transition requires action on electricity demand
Authors: WEO Energy Analysts Stéphanie Bouckaert, Timothy Goodson and Brent Wanner
As a fundamental rule, electricity supply and demand must be balanced at all times....
To Resist the Robots, Invest in People
A knitting factory in Bangladesh brings together the past, present, and future. On one floor, workers knit by hand. On another, people and machines...
Building innovation networks to transform the energy landscape
The ‘three Ds’ of renewable energy — decarbonisation, decentralisation and digitalisation — are bringing new opportunities and transforming the energy sector. Innovations in technology,...
Buckle up for the new passenger economy
A hundred years ago, few thought that the clunky automobile that broke down so often would ever replace a horse. In the 1970s, people...
5 things to know about connected cars
If you could go back in time and tell people that in the near future there would be a handheld device that would allow...