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Across the world, employment in renewable
energy grew by 5% in 2015, boosted
by supportive Government policies and
subsidies including tax credits in the US,
although jobs in renewables fell in Europe.
“Even without a price on carbon, renewable
energy is competing with dirty energy and
winning,” said Ben Schreiber, at Friends of
the Earth US. “The question isn’t whether
renewable energy supplants fossil fuels,
but whether fossil fuel companies can
delay the transition long enough to destroy
the climate.”
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G7 Leaders Declaration – 2016
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The G7 nations have for the first time
set a deadline for ending most fossil fuel
subsidies, saying Government support for
coal, oil and gas should end by 2025.
The leaders of the UK, US, Canada, France,
Germany, Italy, Japan and the European
Union encouraged all countries to join
them in eliminating “inefficient fossil fuel
subsidies” within a decade.
“Given the fact that energy production and
use account for around two-thirds of global
greenhouse gas emissions, we recognise
the crucial role that the energy sector has
to play in combating climate change,” said
the leaders at the end their summit in
Japan.
3rd International Sustainable Energy
Summit 2016
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As of February 2016, SEDA Malaysia had
approved a total of 8,796 Feed-In-Tariff
(FiT) applications with a total capacity of
1,185.85MW, of which 334.03MW has
achieved commercial operation up to 2018.
The economic, social and environment
benefits expected to be gained from
FiT implementation include the total
investment worth billions, a total of 23,823
green jobs created and the green house
gas (GHG) Emission Avoidance estimated
at 3.5 million tonnes.
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In line with our strategic thrust to
decarbonise the energy sector under the
11th Malaysian Plan, we have embarked
on two new initiatives to scale up the
generation of renewable energy (RE)
in the country through the net energy
metering (NEM) and large scale solar (LSS)
mechanisms.
These two initiatives will contribute an
additional 1,500MW of RE by 2020. Under
these initiatives, coupled with the FiT
mechanism that was introduced in 2012,
RE installed capacity in 2020 is expected
to reach 2,080MW or 7.8% of the overall
installed capacity.
Innovative Flywheel Energy Storage Freiburg, Germany
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A flywheel at a tram terminal loop is being
tested as a means of energy storage in the
city of Freiburg. The flywheel stores the
braking energy of arriving trams and gives
it back to departing trams. Up to 250,000
kWh of electric energy is expected to be
saved this way.
In a one-year project, the municipal
transport company Freiburger Verkehrs AG
(VAG) is testing a flywheel energy storage
system at a terminal loop. Right now
Freiburg’s trams are already feeding the
electric energy network while braking, but
when no other tram is around this energy
is lost.
This often happens on lines with low
frequency and near terminal stations. For
this reason, a terminal loop in Landwasser
was chosen for a new flywheel energy
storage system. Whenever energy for
acceleration of a tram is needed the
flywheel system sends it back to the
overhead wire.
SOURCE
BOAO Asia Forum
Ministry of Plantations Industries & Commodities
(MPIC) media statement 31.5.2016
The Guardian