Energy & Clean Tech - Issue #10 - 2019 in Review: A Critical Year for our Future and for the Climate

2019 promises to be an exciting year for renewable energy. An increasing number of countries, companies and regions are embracing new technologies and establishing markets for renewables and storage. Here are 6 renewable energy trends to watch in the coming year.

To tackle global warming countries need to decarbonize their energy systems. These are the nations that are doing the most to embrace the transformation.

Due to climate change, the choice of which energy technology to use is no longer a binary one that pits the cost of renewables against the status quo. There is now a third reference point, which is the future.

China announced the first batch of clean energy projects that will be built without financial support from the government, putting renewable power on a path to compete with existing coal and gas-fired generation.

Hauwa, from Borno State in north-eastern Nigeria, fled her home village of Adamari with her husband and four children in March, when violence struck. Now, she is in the relative safety of a UN-run camp but, with little electricity available at night, lighting is scarce, and darkness can mean danger. However, thanks to a solar-energy initiative from the UN migration agency IOM,

The urgency to meet environmental targets hits the stark reality that inventing new technologies, bringing them to market, and deploying them at scale takes time. A new generation of technology incubators is helping cleantech startups become more attractive to investors, write Richard Adams, David Garfield, and Kate Moore of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.

Innovative clean technology will have a huge role to play in addressing the climate crisis, but many new products and services are foundering in an unfriendly lab-to-market ecosystem. Here are four ways to remove some of the biggest barriers to successful commercialization

The founders of Clean Energy Venture Group on picking the right startup, managing employees, and surviving a recession.

Business Insider - Google is looking for 8-10 startups to launch its new program to help startups working on sustainability areas.. Read more at businessinsider.sg

2019 was a year of consolidation rather than breakthroughs for clean energy technologies. Will 2020 be different?