The boost in renewables will allow to slash the capacity of natural gas-fired power plants to 3.8 GW in 2030 from 5 GW now, "moving towards their banning from 2040, provided security of supply is ensured", it said. The government raised the onshore wind target to 10.4 GW from 9 GW forecast earlier, while setting the capacity on offer in the first offshore wind auction later this year at 2 GW. New electrolyser capacity to produce green hydrogen should hit 5.5 GW by 2030, up from 2.5 GW forecast previously. Solar capacity is expected to reach 21 GW in 2030, up from 9.3 GW in the previous plan and eight times above last year's level. Portugal aims to generate 85% of its annual electricity usage from renewable sources by 2030, up from around 60% in 2022, which was already one of the highest ratios in Europe. The EU is at risk of failing to meet its 2030 climate change targets, owing to uncertainty over whether sufficient funds are being invested in the low-carbon transition, the European Court of Auditors (ECA) had said in a report last month. That will require an estimated 75 billion euros ($81.80 billion) of investment in green energy projects, mostly private.
The government forecasts that the overall installed renewable energy capacity will rise to 42.8 gigawatts (GW) by 2030, up from a target of 27.4 GW in the previous plan, and 2.5 times more than the capacity in operation last year. It is also studying the possibility of becoming carbon neutral five years earlier than its original commitment. Google claims net zero carbon footprint over its entire lifetime, aims to only use carbon-free energy by 2030 TechCrunch Climate Google claims net zero carbon footprint over its entire. Portugal now aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 55% by 2030 from 2005 levels, while its previous plan envisaged a 45%-55% cut. A public hearing will follow and the final plan is due by June next year. The new targets are part of an updated draft of the energy and climate goals that Portugal sent to Brussels on Friday - the deadline for all European countries to submit revamped plans on how they expect to help further EU renewable energy objectives. The proportion varied by facility, with carbon-free sources fulfilling 96% of hourly power needs at Google’s wind-swept Oklahoma data center compared with 3% at its gas-reliant Singapore operation.LISBON, July 3 (Reuters) - Portugal has more than doubled its 2030 goals for installed capacity of solar energy and electrolysers to produce green hydrogen, as it aims to decommission natural gas-fired power plants by 2040 and possibly become carbon neutral by 2045. Wind, solar and other renewable sources accounted for 61% of Google’s global hourly electricity usage last year. Wildfires burning a record area in the western United States this month have increased public awareness of climate change, Pichai said, and Google wants to bring further attention through its new goal as well as product features. “We’re one small player in this but we can set an example.” “The problem is so immense, many of us need to lead the way and show solutions,” Pichai said.
The “stretch goal,” as CEO Sundar Pichai described it, will force Google to move beyond the tech industry norm of offseting carbon emissions from electricity use and require technological and political breakthroughs to achieve. FILE PHOTO: The Google logo is spelled out in heliostats (mirrors that track the sun and reflect the sunlight onto a central receiving point) during a tour of the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System in the Mojave Desert near the California-Nevada border February 13, 2014.
0 kommentar(er)
