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    Research
    April 5, 2018

    A Global Database of Power Plants

    Climate
    North America
    News
    April 25, 2024

    STATEMENT: U.S. EPA Issues Strong Pollution Standards for New and Existing Power Plants

    • power plants
    • U.S. Climate Policy-Clean Power
    • power plants
    • U.S. Climate Policy-Clean Power
    Climate
    Insights
    May 25, 2023

    4 Shifts Needed to Create a Carbon-free Power System

    • GHG emissions
    • Climate Equity
    • climate change
    • power plants
    • renewable energy
    Wind turbines and solar power panels
    • GHG emissions
    • Climate Equity
    • climate change
    • power plants
    • renewable energy
    Business
    Africa
    Update
    November 29, 2022

    P4G’s Partnership of the Year Demonstrates the Power of Rural Electrification Through Hydro Plants

    • Business
    • Freshwater
    • power plants
    A river flows through Masai Mara Nature Reserve in Kenya
    • Business
    • Freshwater
    • power plants
    Freshwater
    Technical Perspectives
    December 9, 2021

    With Power Generation Vulnerable to Climate Impacts, Investors Must Understand Physical Risks

    • climate change
    • power plants
    • Aqueduct
    A power plant on a sea shore with smoke emerging from the towers.
    • climate change
    • power plants
    • Aqueduct
    Freshwater
    Asia
    Insights
    August 26, 2021

    How Water Challenges Threaten India’s Energy Security

    • water risk
    • renewable energy
    • power plants
    • drought
    • floods
    • Aqueduct
    Power plant in dry land
    • water risk
    • renewable energy
    • power plants
    • drought
    • floods
    • Aqueduct
    Climate
    Insights
    May 25, 2021

    What Is Carbon Lock-in and How Can We Avoid It?

    • GHG emissions
    • fossil fuels
    • infrastructure
    • power plants
    • National Climate Action
    • COP26
    A power plant with wind mills and a smoke column in the center.
    • GHG emissions
    • fossil fuels
    • infrastructure
    • power plants
    • National Climate Action
    • COP26
    Climate
    Africa
    Update
    April 1, 2021

    Morocco: Ensuring A Large-scale Renewable Installation Benefits Local Communities

    • JT Sector: Renewables
    Large scale solar panel installation
    • JT Sector: Renewables
    Climate
    Asia
    Update
    April 1, 2021

    India: A Large-scale Solar Park on Drought-prone Agricultural Land

    • JT Sector: Renewables
    Solar panels
    • JT Sector: Renewables
    Climate
    Latin America
    Update
    April 1, 2021

    Uruguay: Leveraging Partnerships to Create Green Jobs and Ensure a Just Transition

    • JT Sector: Renewables
    Windows with air conditioning units
    • JT Sector: Renewables
    Climate
    Asia
    Update
    April 1, 2021

    Philippines: A Whole-of-government Approach to Creating Green Jobs

    • JT Sector: Renewables
    Person walking on beach next to windmills
    • JT Sector: Renewables
    Climate
    Latin America
    Update
    April 1, 2021

    Mexico: Policymaking to Ensure Energy Justice in Renewables Development

    • JT Sector: Renewables
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Equity & Governance
    Windmills
    • JT Sector: Renewables
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Equity & Governance
    Climate
    Europe
    Update
    April 1, 2021

    Hungary: Converting the Mátra Power Plant into a Diversified Hub of Green Energy and Industry

    • JT Sector: Fossil fuels
    • JT Sector: Fossil Fuel Extraction
    • JT Sector: Renewables
    View of forest, agricultural fields, and industrial power generation
    • JT Sector: Fossil fuels
    • JT Sector: Fossil Fuel Extraction
    • JT Sector: Renewables
    Climate
    Europe
    Update
    April 1, 2021

    European Union’s Just Transition Mechanism: Transnational Funding and Support for a Just Transition

    • JT Sector: Fossil fuels
    • JT Sector: Fossil Fuel Extraction
    • JT Sector: Finance
    • JT Sector: Renewables
    Flags
    • JT Sector: Fossil fuels
    • JT Sector: Fossil Fuel Extraction
    • JT Sector: Finance
    • JT Sector: Renewables
    Asia
    Insights
    December 2, 2019

    China Faces 4 Big Risks if it Continues Building More Coal Plants

    • Energy
    • fossil fuels
    • power plants
    • renewable energy
    • Energy
    • fossil fuels
    • power plants
    • renewable energy
    Energy
    North America
    Insights
    October 10, 2019

    Pennsylvania is Joining RGGI. Here’s Why That Matters

    • Energy
    • electric grid
    • GHG emissions
    • power plants
    Appalachian Trail in Pennsylvania
    • Energy
    • electric grid
    • GHG emissions
    • power plants
    Climate
    Data
    November 7, 2018

    47% of World's Thermal Power Capacity is in Highly Water-Stressed Areas

    • Energy
    • fossil fuels
    • power plants
    • Freshwater
    • water risk
    • Energy
    • fossil fuels
    • power plants
    • Freshwater
    • water risk
    Cities
    Initiatives
    November 6, 2018

    Power Explorer

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