‘HSBC, whose global assets total more than $2 trillion, announced Friday that as the climate change crisis deepens, it will no longer finance new coal-fired power plants (with a few targeted exceptions), Arctic drilling or new oilsands projects, including pipelines.’

Source: Europe’s biggest bank retreats from the oilsands | National Observer

‘A group of 131 representatives and 39 senators signed a resolution introduced Wednesday that calls for Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt to resign.’

Source: 170 lawmakers sign resolution calling for Pruitt’s resignation | TheHill

“A critical parameter for installing fixed-tilt panels is the tilt angle, since PV panel output increases with increasing exposure to direct sunlight. Energy modelers also need to know the optimal tilt angle of a panel for calculating regional or global PV output in a given location or worldwide.”

Source: World estimates of PV optimal tilt angles and ratios of sunlight incident upon tilted and tracked PV panels relative to horizontal panels

‘Solar photovoltaic and wind power are rapidly getting cheaper and more abundant – so much so that they are on track to entirely supplant fossil fuels worldwide within two decades, with the time frame depending mostly on politics. The protestation from some politicians that we need to build new coal stations sounds rather quaint.’

Source: Solar PV and wind are on track to replace all coal, oil and gas within two decades

‘Report from global renewables agency REN21 highlights just how dramatic the global energy transition will be, as the cost of wind and solar continue to fall, and storage continues its rapid adoption.’

Source: This is how baseload gets replaced by renewables and storage