As China's push to reach carbon neutrality by 2060 draws increased attention toward wind power, experts say moving wind farms to deeper waters could eliminate some of the challenges to offshore wind power and help expand the fleet of turbines. Offshore wind power is expected to account for 10 percent of total power generation in 2050, and 70 percent of the technical potential is in deeper waters suited to wind farms floating on the ocean surface rather than digging into the ocean bed, said Dolf Gielen, director of the International Renewable Energy Agency Innovation and Technology Center.

How green is wind power? It’s not a simple question. Of course the wind blows without carbon emissions, but catching it isn’t easy. They won’t run out of material — the International Renewable Energy Agency predicts that we’ll have to deal with a cumulative 78 million metric tons of antiquated solar panel waste and tens of millions of tons of old turbine blades by 2050.

Electricity generated from renewable sources represented almost three quarters of new power capacity added in 2019, the International Renewable Energy Agency said in a report.

The power companies from the Gulf Cooperation Council nations are planning to further invest in the global $10 trillion renewables market, expanding outside their region as demand for cleaner energy gathers pace around the world. The gulf region could save 354 million barrels of oil equivalent from adopting renewable energy by 2030, according to a 2019 study from the Abu Dhabi-based International Renewable Energy Agency.

As well as being less risky, more cost-effective and helping to create jobs, renewable energy solutions deliver a better result for the environment. According to the International Renewable Energy Agency, the cost of renewables continues on a downward trajectory and are now most frequently the cheapest source of energy generation, weakening the case for nuclear power.

South Africa’s state-owned power utility, which relies on coal to generate most of the nation’s electricity, issued a request for bids to build its first battery-energy storage system, according to a tender document seen by Bloomberg. Battery storage can save fuel costs and reduce grid congestion, according to the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). It can also balance a greater use of renewable sources that provide intermittent power.

"Green hydrogen" refers to hydrogen produced by electrolyzing water with the power of renewable energy such as wind power and sunlight. Francesco La Camera, Director-General of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), insisted at an online seminar titled "Competition for Net Zero" on November 16th last year.

Talk about changing times. An old gasification plant in West Terre Haute, Indiana is getting a new life. It will use petroleum coke and biomass to produce hydrogen for power. It will also capture and sequester the resulting CO2. Just how realistic is this pursuit and just how clean is the process? The International Renewable Energy Agency says that energy losses occur when hydrogen is produced and transported: as much as 70% of the energy content may get lost, although that figure is less consequential if the hydrogen is created from solar power that is abundant and free.

The International Renewable Energy Agency and the Cop28 presidency also on Monday called for the tripling of renewable power capacity and the doubling of energy efficiency by 2030 to reach the goals of the Paris deal.

Investment in wind and solar power is expected to surpass fossil-fuel power in coming years, despite dropoff in subsidies. Today, Asia accounts for nearly half of global renewable-energy capacity, according to the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA).

Companies that provide clean off-grid electricity to the poor in developing nations are searching for ways to stay afloat - and keep life-saving power on - through the coronavirus pandemic, as the economic fallout from the crisis empties customers’ pockets. The International Renewable Energy Agency and African Union Commission agreed last week to cooperate on projects such as helping rural health centres and communities deal with COVID-19 by using renewable power to run critical services.

Now the real challenge begins: sector by sector, country by country, the battle is over competitiveness. The latest testimony comes from the report that Irena, the international agency for renewable energy, published just as Parliament was preparing to vote on the future of the climate.

Advocates for the energy transition are concerned ahead of the COP28 summit in Dubai about the high cost of capital available to make change happen, as policymakers ratchet up their rhetoric on the need for tight monetary policy.

The International Renewable Energy Agency suggests the world's deployment of renewables must reach 1000GW annually to keep alive the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5°C .

Governments could chart a path to a fully decarbonised energy system by the middle of the century and revive economies hit by the coronavirus if they tailor stimulus packages to boost clean energy technologies, according to a report published by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA).

The Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM) highlighted substantial growth in the use of rooftop photovoltaic power stations in Indonesia. "The International Renewable Energy Agency or IRENA recorded that solar power plant investment costs had declined by more than 80 percent in the last decade," Kusdiana pointed out.

Spain closed the year with 59,108 non-polluting MW, a figure that places our country as the eighth with the highest renewable capacity in the world. According to the annual report of the International Renewable Energy Agency, the 'greens' totaled 261 gigawatts (GW) in the year of the Covid, which represented 82% of the new electricity capacity added on last year.

Every industry can be part of the solution — or part of the ongoing problem. The world doles out $634 billion per year in direct energy subsidies, estimates International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA).

Inner Mongolia is home to large coal mines and fossil fuel-powered plants that have raised concerns about cryptocurrency’s environmental impact. Bitcoin miners are increasingly looking to environmentally-friendly alternatives, with recent projections from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) finding that renewable energy sources are becoming more cost-efficient than fossil fuels.

In the midst of a global pandemic, it’s clear that we are up against enormous challenges, and progress in key areas is slow or regressing, as the recent Sustainable Development Goals report shows. Investments in recovering from COVID-19 also need to focus on sustainable jobs and sectors. The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) estimates that decarbonizing the world economy by 2050 would boost cumulative global GDP gains by US$98 trillion between now and 2050, quadrupling renewable energy jobs to 42 million, with higher gender parity than traditional sectors.

The corona crisis raises the question of whether the global expansion of renewable energy is in danger. The International Renewable Energy Agency has now presented a report, according to the results of which trillion investments should be worthwhile.

The International Renewable Energy Agency commits to getting the Global South the financing it needs to green up — a pivotal element to reach 11,000 gigawatts by 2030. The agency will, therefore, focus on physical infrastructure, policy and regulation, and institutional and human capacity.

The price tag is eye-watering: Investment in energy-transition technologies were $1.3 trillion last year, according to the International Renewable Energy Agency, an intergovernmental group, and that needs to at least quadruple to avoid a level of warming that scientists say would be catastrophic.

Some 1.3 million people worldwide already work in the wind sector, but five times as many will be needed as the shift to renewable energy gathers pace. Job prospects are increasing as the sector picks up worldwide. According to the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), most employees in the wind sector work in Asia, especially in China (550,000) and India (40,000). In Europe, there are roughly 340,000 people employed in the industry, most of them in Germany, the UK, Denmark and the Netherlands.

The global energy transition received a significant boost recently when G20 leaders in New Delhi adopted the International Renewable Energy Agency’s (IRENA’s) recommendations on the need to triple global renewable energy capacity by 2030.