Experts say world is ‘past peak fossil power’ but warn against uneven development of energy projects

Experts say world is ‘past peak fossil power’ but warn against uneven development of energy projects

Nuclear power generation is likely to break records in 2025 as more countries invest in reactors to fuel the shift to a low-carbon global economy, while renewable energy is likely to overtake coal as a power source early next year, data has shown.

China, India, Korea and Europe are likely to have new reactors come on stream, while several in Japan are also forecast to return to generation, and French output should increase, according to a report on the state of global electricity markets published by the International Energy Agency (IEA) on Wednesday.

Electricity demand is also expected to increase around the world, fuelled largely by the move to a low-carbon economy. Electric vehicles and heat pumps, as well as many low-carbon industrial processes, require electricity rather than oil and gas.

  • sus
    33·
    10 months ago

    Did you even read your own articles?

    CBS:

    its delayed disclosure of the meltdowns at three reactorswas tantamount to a cover-up

    NYT:

    Culture of Complicity Tied to Stricken Nuclear Plant

    Mainichi:

    then TEPCO president Masataka Shimizu had ordered the company not to use the term “meltdown” to describe what had occurred

    None of these support anything close to the kind of cover up needed to result in a “nobody can know how many people died” level of lack of information. They’re mostly about failing to report the disaster fast enough and downplaying it by using certain wording and having a lax security culture. Not about the government preventing investigations or giving gag orders or something like that.