Clean electricity could trigger climate 'positive tipping points', report finds

Something to cling to and promote the hell out of: leveraging POSITIVE TIPPING POINTS www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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"However, the transition to clean power is being impeded by slow planning and grid expansion...and a severe lack of investment elsewhere. Africa receives less than 2% of global clean energy investment despite possessing 60% of the world’s best solar resources..." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey has signed an executive order requiring data centers over 25 MW to meet 100% of their electricity demand with clean energy. They must provide the power themselves, fund new nearby generation or pay into a ratepayer protection fund.

There’s something encouraging about the idea of ‘positive tipping points’. We’ve seen clean energy go from niche to mainstream surprisingly fast. The question really is whether we can push those changes quickly enough to stay ahead of climate change damage. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“The analysis focuses on ‘positive tipping points’ – thresholds beyond which a sustainable technology or practice becomes increasingly cheap, widespread or politically popular, allowing progress to become self-propelling. It identifies clean electricity as the ‘highest-leverage’ transition…”

A rapid global shift to clean electricity could trigger a “cascade” of progress towards repairing the damage to the planet by the #climate crisis, according to a report identifying the environmental solutions most likely to bring about change. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Climate solutions most likely to reach ‘positive tipping points’ revealed by scientists - Global shift towards clean electricity and more could trigger ‘cascade’ of progress #climatecrisis Story by @matthewpearce.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Most of America’s electricity grid, for the better part of a century, has been "renting" its power one fuel shipment at a time. Clean energy resources are the closest thing the grid has to home ownership. Read my latest: www.jayinslee.com/p/clean-ener...

"Germany has almost halved its use of fossil fuels for electricity generation in the past eight years." www.cleanenergywire.org/news/germany... via @cleanenergywire.bsky.social's @benjwhereman.bsky.social 🔌💡

Encouraging new report on positive tipping points that could be achieved in energy, commodities, marine protection, forest protection, climate adaptation, etc. The problem, as ever, is we know how to fix the market failures, and yet we continually fail to do so. www.businessgreen.com/news/4535520...

“Clean power improves the economics of electric vehicles, heat pumps and cleaner industrial processes, while reducing air pollution and stimulating further demand for renewable electricity.”

Massachusetts requires large data centers to power themselves with 100% clean energy, spurring investment in renewable generation and protecting ratepayers from costs.

Coal power is falling in Chinese industrial centers such as Hunan and Shandong, an analysis finds. The shift comes even as companies look to electricity, not fossil fuels, to power industrial processes.

New poll shows that most Americans don't believe that renewable energy drives down their electricity costs. BUT on who to blame for rising costs, just 31% of voters blame renewables, whereas 58% blame new data centers, 55% blame oil and gas, and 48% blame rising electricity demand.