Featured in Solar springs eternal – 09-2023

The revolution will be sanitized

A clean energy revolution is at hand, with analyst BloombergNEF expecting more than 500 GW of new renewables generation capacity per year as early as 2025. But how clean is the transition? Tristan Rayner previews our fourth-quarter UP Initiative coverage.

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Tristan Rayner

07 Sep 2023

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The amount of energy solar power delivers, compared to what is required to get it generating – PV’s energy return on investment (EROI) – is at least 10 times higher, according to a paper published in the journal “Sustainability” last year.What about solar’s carbon footprint, from the extraction of raw materials to the energy-intensive production …

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