Axios: Clean energy gets Iran boost

 Clean energy gets Iran boost
 
Illustration: Gabriella Turrisi/Axios

There’s new evidence that the Iran war is boosting global clean energy uptake, Axios’ Ben Geman reports.

🇨🇳 China’s solar exports soared in March, per think tank Ember and energy research firm Bloomberg NEF. South Korea’s domestic EV sales more than doubled last month year over year, Bloomberg reports. Solar panel imports were up nearly 140%.

🇪🇺 March EV sales also surged in the EU, with larger year over year growth than in either of the prior two months.

European leaders say they’re going to get even more aggressive on electrification.

Reality check: Solar and EVs were already growing fast in many places, making it tough to suss out the war’s true impact.

Coal is also rising in some places, like South Korea. 

Some countries are sticking with oil and gas, but importing it from regions outside the Gulf.

Norway is reopening North Sea gas fields, while U.S. oil and petroleum exports have surged amid the war.

The bottom line: Tatiana Mitrova, a fellow at Columbia’s Center on Global Energy Policy, tells Axios that it’s “still too early to say that the Iran war is clearly accelerating the whole transition.”

“But there are already concrete signs that it’s making solar, storage and electrification-related choices more attractive through an energy-security lens.”Go deeper.
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Life event that changes all: Horse riding accident in Zimbabwe in 1993, a fractured skull et al including bipolar anxiety, chronic fatigue …. co-morbidities (Nietzche 'He who has the reason why can deal with any how' details my health history from 1993 to date). 17th 2017 August operation for breast cancer (no indications just an appointment came from BreastCheck through the Post). Trinity College Dublin Business Economics and Social Studies (but no degree) 1997-2003; UCD 1997/1998 night classes) essays, projects, writings. Trinity Horizon Programme 1997/98 (Centre for Women Studies Trinity College Dublin/St. Patrick's Foundation (Professor McKeon) EU Horizon funded: research study of 15 women (I was one of this group and it became the cornerstone of my journey to now 2017) over 9 mth period diagnosed with depression and their reintegration into society, with special emphasis on work, arts, further education; Notes from time at Trinity Horizon Project 1997/98; Articles written for Irishhealth.com 2003/2004; St Patricks Foundation monthly lecture notes for a specific period in time; Selection of Poetry including poems written by people I know; Quotations 1998-2017; other writings mainly with theme of social justice under the heading Citizen Journalism Ireland. Letters written to friends about life in Zimbabwe; Family history including Michael Comyn KC, my grandfather, my grandmother's family, the O'Donnellan ffrench Blake-Forsters; Moral wrong: An acrimonious divorce but the real injustice was the Catholic Church granting an annulment – you can read it and make your own judgment, I have mine. Topics I have written about include annual Brain Awareness week, Mashonaland Irish Associataion in Zimbabwe, Suicide (a life sentence to those left behind); Nostalgia: Tara Hill, Co. Meath.
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