Chile’s Renewable Energy Sector Surges with Photovoltaic Solar Leading the Way
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The Chilean Association of Renewable Energy and Storage (Acera) has released its latest monthly report, revealing impressive strides in the country’s renewable energy sector. According to the report, electrical energy generation from Non-Conventional Renewable Energy (NCRE) sources soared to 38.2% in February 2024, marking a notable 7.9% increase compared to the previous month.
Leading the charge in renewable energy generation is photovoltaic solar, which accounted for 22.9% of total generation during February. However, this represented a decrease of 11.3% from the preceding month’s figures.
Spills of raw sewage into England's rivers and seas are worst on record
Wednesday 27 March 2024 12:44, UK
Spills of raw sewage into England's rivers and seas reached their worst on record last year.
Discharges of untreated sewage by water companies doubled from 1.8 million hours in 2022 to a record 3.6 million in 2023, according to new Environment Agency data.
The number of individual spills also soared by 54% - from 301,000 incidents in 2022 to 464,000 in 2023.
Water companies partly blamed the huge jump on last year's wet weather - 2023 was England's sixth wettest on record - following the drought during 2022.
Because rain and sewage wash down the same pipes in the UK, sewers are fitted with so-called storm overflows, which act as safety valves during heavy rain, to stop sewage backing up into people's homes.
Surge of new US-led oil and gas activity threatens to wreck Paris climate goals
Thu 28 Mar 2024 06.00 GMT
The world’s fossil-fuel producers are on track to nearly quadruple the amount of extracted oil and gas from newly approved projects by the end of this decade, with the US leading the way in a surge of activity that threatens to blow apart agreed climate goals, a new report has found.
There can be no new oil and gas infrastructure if the planet is to avoid careering past 1.5C (2.7F) of global heating, above pre-industrial times, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has previously stated. Breaching this warming threshold, agreed to by governments in the Paris climate agreement, will see ever worsening effects such as heatwaves, floods, drought and more, scientists have warned.
But since the IEA’s declaration in 2021, countries and major fossil fuel companies have forged ahead with a glut of new oil and gas activity. At least 20bn barrels of oil equivalent of new oil and gas has been discovered for future drilling since this point, according to the new report by Global Energy Monitor, a San Francisco-based NGO.
Last year, at least 20 oil and gas fields were readied and approved for extraction following discovery, sanctioning the removal of 8bn barrels of oil equivalent. By the end of this decade, the report found, the fossil-fuel industry aims to sanction nearly four times this amount – 31bn barrels of oil equivalent – across 64 additional new oil and gas fields.
The US, which has produced more crude oil than any country has ever done in history for the past six years in a row, led the way in new oil and gas projects in 2022 and 2023, the report found. Guyana was second, with countries in the Americas accounting for 40% of all new oil sanctioned in the past two years.
