OREC .. Organization of Renewable Energy Countries
Tiny bit more complex to sit at a table and decide what wind and solar quotas are going to be for next year.
>*A clean power alliance would enable countries to cooperate to source components more cheaply, boost the expansion of wind, solar and other forms of low-carbon power, and potentially to share or export electricity across connected grids.*
>*Denmark, the Netherlands, Austria, Portugal, Costa Rica and Kenya are potential partners, and Miliband will be drumming up further support at the Cop27 UN climate summit, which he is visiting for several days. Labour is committed to 100% low-carbon electricity by 2030.*
>*“This potential clean power alliance is like an anti-Opec,” said Miliband, referring to the group of oil-producing countries. “I say anti-Opec because Opec is a cartel, a group of countries that works together to keep prices high. This would be a way in which countries join together to be the vanguard and say, ‘We’re going to deliver on clean power and it will help to cut prices, not just for us but for others’.”*
>*He said the plunge in the price of renewable energy over the last decade was “the biggest source of optimism we should all have” about the climate crisis. “It is now cheaper to save the planet than to destroy it,” Miliband said in an interview with the Guardian at Cop27. “That is a message we should be shouting from the rooftops, because the implications of that message are profound”.*
Miliband on point as usual.
This current government is short sighted. The quicker the grown ups get to the table the better.
>*He pointed out that, since hosting th lauded Cop26 climate summit, where nations agreed to limit global temperature rises to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels, the government had returned – briefly – to fracking, mooted a new coalmine, granted new oil and gas licences, given tax breaks to fossil fuels, kept the ban on onshore wind, slashed aid to poor countries, failed on insulation and then snubbed Cop27, until Rishi Sunak, the prime minister, U-turned and came for a day.*
This seems like a sensible step.
We should be throwing absolutely everything into renewables and replacing fossil fuels right now. We should be treating it like a war effort or like the way that America treated the Manhattan Project.
Getting off fossil fuels is the absolute best way to alleviate the cost of living crisis, clean up our air and also avoid the worst effects of climate change.
It’s win/win/win. We should be pulling out all of the stops!
China makes 90+% of world’s solar panels , majority of the world’s wind turbines , majority of the world’s battery capacity and they have higher capacity of nuclear power under construction than the entire EU+US combined
So his plan essentially requires the Chinese communist party on board
What the master intends to do and what he will are as different as black Bishop to white knight
Green energy is already cheap. That we don’t have enough is why we’re struggling with the gas price problem.
>‘anti-Opec’ alliance
Jesus! Isn’t that what Gadhafi wanted to do and link the whole thing to the Euro rather than the Dollar before the West turned against him and started a 14 sided civil war in Libya?
Another cartel to control the cost of green energy?
the fact we have opec is why oil is expensive… Either a free market OR regulation is the only way to keep energy prices down
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OREC .. Organization of Renewable Energy Countries
Tiny bit more complex to sit at a table and decide what wind and solar quotas are going to be for next year.
>*A clean power alliance would enable countries to cooperate to source components more cheaply, boost the expansion of wind, solar and other forms of low-carbon power, and potentially to share or export electricity across connected grids.*
>*Denmark, the Netherlands, Austria, Portugal, Costa Rica and Kenya are potential partners, and Miliband will be drumming up further support at the Cop27 UN climate summit, which he is visiting for several days. Labour is committed to 100% low-carbon electricity by 2030.*
>*“This potential clean power alliance is like an anti-Opec,” said Miliband, referring to the group of oil-producing countries. “I say anti-Opec because Opec is a cartel, a group of countries that works together to keep prices high. This would be a way in which countries join together to be the vanguard and say, ‘We’re going to deliver on clean power and it will help to cut prices, not just for us but for others’.”*
>*He said the plunge in the price of renewable energy over the last decade was “the biggest source of optimism we should all have” about the climate crisis. “It is now cheaper to save the planet than to destroy it,” Miliband said in an interview with the Guardian at Cop27. “That is a message we should be shouting from the rooftops, because the implications of that message are profound”.*
Miliband on point as usual.
This current government is short sighted. The quicker the grown ups get to the table the better.
>*He pointed out that, since hosting th lauded Cop26 climate summit, where nations agreed to limit global temperature rises to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels, the government had returned – briefly – to fracking, mooted a new coalmine, granted new oil and gas licences, given tax breaks to fossil fuels, kept the ban on onshore wind, slashed aid to poor countries, failed on insulation and then snubbed Cop27, until Rishi Sunak, the prime minister, U-turned and came for a day.*
This seems like a sensible step.
We should be throwing absolutely everything into renewables and replacing fossil fuels right now. We should be treating it like a war effort or like the way that America treated the Manhattan Project.
Getting off fossil fuels is the absolute best way to alleviate the cost of living crisis, clean up our air and also avoid the worst effects of climate change.
It’s win/win/win. We should be pulling out all of the stops!
China makes 90+% of world’s solar panels , majority of the world’s wind turbines , majority of the world’s battery capacity and they have higher capacity of nuclear power under construction than the entire EU+US combined
So his plan essentially requires the Chinese communist party on board
What the master intends to do and what he will are as different as black Bishop to white knight
Green energy is already cheap. That we don’t have enough is why we’re struggling with the gas price problem.
>‘anti-Opec’ alliance
Jesus! Isn’t that what Gadhafi wanted to do and link the whole thing to the Euro rather than the Dollar before the West turned against him and started a 14 sided civil war in Libya?
Another cartel to control the cost of green energy?
the fact we have opec is why oil is expensive… Either a free market OR regulation is the only way to keep energy prices down