Greentech Frontiers

05/06/2026

BloombergNEF comments that "Annual additions of energy storage, excluding pumped hydro, reached 112 gigawatts in 2025 – up 48% from 2024 – with 307 gigawatt-hours of batteries added worldwide. It only took four years for energy storage to increase annual additions to more than 100 gigawatts from 10 gigawatts, whereas it took roughly eight and 15 years for solar and wind, respectively. This record underscores growing market momentum and increased industry maturity."

05/06/2026

BloombergNEF in its just published New Energy Outlook 2026 states that as the "adoption of solar modules, batteries, heat pumps, electric vehicles, and other technologies accelerates, nations that are dependent on fossil fuels stand to improve their energy security under our base case."

The New Energy Outlook is BNEF's annual report focused on long-term energy and climate scenarios for the energy transition.

28/05/2026

Jeffrey Sachs: "On the other side of China’s current account surplus is the world’s largest investment needs. Emerging markets and developing economies require an unprecedented era of green capital formation to electrify their economies, modernise their grids, build storage and long-distance transmission, electrify their transport sectors and develop the mineral supply chains on which global decarbonisation depends. China’s saving is key to financing these investments."

The IMF assumes China should save less. China’s saving is key to financing the developing world’s need for green infrastructure.

26/05/2026

IRENA's "analysis shows that the cost of firm renewable electricity has declined rapidly across all major technologies and markets. In high-quality solar and wind resource regions, co-located hybrid systems can already deliver round-the-clock electricity at costs competitive with - and in many cases below - those of new fossil-fuel generation. China currently defines the global cost floor, while costs in Brazil, India, South Africa, Australia, and the Gulf region are declining rapidly towards fossil-fuel cost parity."

This report explores the rapidly changing economics of co-located renewable and battery energy storage systems delivering round-the-clock electricity.

21/05/2026

"We need to take a portfolio approach to solving climate change and to set priorities within the portfolio, starting with the “big rocks” first."

Four charts provide valuable insights into the spectrum of climate solutions.

08/05/2026

McKinsey on BESS: "Recent technology innovations also allow BESS to provide crucial services, including voltage and frequency regulation and even synthetic inertia to stabilize grids. The global BESS market is now growing rapidly and is expected to reach a value of $120 billion to $150 billion by 2030."

As the electric grid grows more complex, battery-energy storage systems (BESS) are growing. Here’s how developers can succeed in a rapidly evolving market.

06/05/2026

"Johan Rockström explains the “Planetary Boundaries” framework. These boundaries refer to the stability of the Earth, and ultimately its capacity to support human life as we know it. Rockström concludes: “Staying within planetary boundaries isn’t a constraint. It’s an opportunity to redefine progress – towards a world that is stable and just, where we’ll live healthily within the means of our only home.”

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23/04/2026

CATL has developed a battery capable of allowing an electric vehicle to drive 1,500km on a single charge. "CATL also released an upgrade to its Shenxing, which can charge from 10 per cent to 98 per cent in six-and-a-half minutes, an improvement from the previous edition which charged from 5 per cent to 80 per cent in 15 minutes."

Chinese group also slashes charging time in race against BYD for electric vehicle battery supremacy

19/04/2026

Authors in this Nature article developed a framework that, for example, shows that "one tonne of CO2 emitted in 1990 caused US$180 in discounted global damages by 2020 ($40–530) and will cause an additional $1,840 through 2100 ($500–5,700)." and that "US emissions since 1990 caused $500 billion ($180–1,300 billion) of damage in India and $330 billion ($110–820 billion) in Brazil."

A new framework links specific emissions to monetized, location-specific climate damages, showing that future harms from past CO2 emissions far exceed historical damages and that delayed carbon removal cannot fully offset these losses.

18/03/2026

"More than 100,000 pages of documents related to the Trump administration’s illegally created “Climate Working Group,” which were released by court order to the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), are now posted online and freely available to the public."

EDF and UCS have posted the documents received under the court order on this webpage, along with instructions for searching through them.