Rating: High school and post-secondary Summary: Markham interviews Joanna Kyriazis, senior policy advisor, about Clean Energy Canada’s new report, “Taking the Wheel,” which argues that Canada isn’t moving fast enough to develop its electric vehicle [Read more]
Rating: High school and post-secondary Summary: Markham interviews economist Werner Antweiler from the Sauder School of Business about how cheap renewables (solar and wind) are poised to begin displacing fossil fuels (coal, oil, natural gas), [Read more]
Rating: High school and post-secondary Summary: Markham interviews Ben Kujala, director of power planning for the Northwest Power and Conservation Council based in Portland, Oregon. They discussed the extent to which natural gas should be [Read more]
By Maxwell Hayes and Sara Hoff This article was published by the US Energy Information Administration on May 18, 2020 Pairing renewable energy generators with energy storage, particularly batteries, is increasingly common as the cost of [Read more]
This article was published by the International Energy Agency on May 3, 2020. As governments focus on dealing with the Covid-19 health emergency, they are increasingly turning their attention to the impact of shutting down [Read more]
Equinor along with Masdar announced they have installed Batwind, an onshore battery system that will capture electricity produced by the world’s first floating offshore wind farm. Equinor photo. Batwind will allow energy produced from an [Read more]
Oil demand peaks soon after coal, with demand decline from transport: electric vehicles are 40% of new passenger car sales by 2030 By Caroline Lee, IEA Energy and Climate Change Policy Analyst All around the world, [Read more]
The Toyota EV motor magnet will use lanthanum and cerium which are cheaper than neodymium, demand of which is expected to exceed supply after 2025. Toyota EV magnet development expected to be in use in [Read more]
CATL EV battery factory located in a small southeast China city will have enough capacity to surpass Tesla output. Bloomberg photo by Qilai Shen. Contemporary Amperex Technology Ltd., leader in EV battery market in China Contemporary [Read more]
RNC Minerals looking to build Dumont mine near Amos, QC Canadian mining company RNC Minerals is planning to build the world’s largest nickel and cobalt project next year. The company is currently lining up commodity [Read more]
Science and data suggest electric vehicles will diffuse slowly, affect oil demand gradually Laszlo Varro is the chief economist of the International Energy Agency. Safe to assume he has a pretty clear view of the [Read more]
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