January 28 Green Energy News

Headline News:

• “How Pakistan Should Meet Clean Energy Challenges” • Both wind and solar technologies produce electricity in ways that are intermittent with the former having a capacity factor in the range of 30% and the later 20%. Through installing wind/solar hybrid plants, however, the cumulative capacity factor can be increased up to 50%. [DAWN.com]

Solar plant in Pakistan

• “China’s End-2018 Renewable Power Generation Capacity Up 12% From 2017” • China’s total renewable power generation capacity climbed to 728 GW in 2018, up 12% from the end of 2017, the country’s energy administration said. China connected 20.59 GW of wind power capacity and 44.3 GW of solar to its grid in 2018. [ETEnergyworld.com]
• “A Worrying New Report Has Revealed The Three Biggest Threats To The Global Population” • Obesity, malnutrition, and climate change are the three biggest threats to populations globally, a report by the Lancet Commission on Obesity said. Funding and strategies targeting food policy and production are needed urgently. [NEWS.com.au]
• “To Fix Climate Change, Fix The Obesity And Starvation Epidemics, Reports Say” • The world needs to come up with solutions to fight three interrelated pandemics – obesity, starvation and climate change – and it needs to do it fast before the planet is “burning,” according to a report released Sunday in The Lancet. [CNN]
• “TEPCO Unveils Device For Handling Nuclear Debris” • The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has unveiled a device that could become the first to directly handle fuel debris inside one of the facility’s crippled reactors. TEPCO showed the device to the media ahead of a survey scheduled for next month. [NHK WORLD]

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