Shifting policies and an unstable economy have put energy storage on an unsure footing. Beside a sprawling solar panel factory in the eastern Chinese city of Suzhou stands a drab two-storey building that few people ever enter. Inside, stark rows of batteries store cheap electricity while the city sleeps each night. In the morning, when energy use and prices go up, the batteries release their power to the factory next door, reducing its electricity bill....... Read More

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Climate change and environmental degradation are an existential threat to Europe and the world. To overcome these challenges, Europe needs a new growth strategy that transforms the Union into a modern, resource-efficient and competitive economy where there are no net emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050 economic growth is decoupled from resource use no person and no place is left behind The European Green Deal is our roadmap for making the EU's economy sustainable. This will happen by turnin

China's new energy law emphasizes the development of new energy, marketization, further opening the energy sector, and international cooperation on environmental protection. It matches the development paces of both the nation and the world, and shows China's determination to participate in global climate control, an analyst said on Friday. Read More