Does the Economic Crisis Shift the Clean Energy Calculus?

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🗓️ 3 April 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

This week: The coronavirus shockwave brings staggering losses of lives, jobs, and money.

So many applied for unemployment last week – 5 times more than ever before – that it was hard for graphic artists to draw a Y-axis that would fit them in historical comparisons. We’re now at 10 million unemployment claims.

With so much turmoil and uncertainty, we are going to dig back into some of the big themes of the week.

First, we’ll have a recap of stimulus activity. The day after the unprecedented unemployment numbers, the federal government approved a boost to the economy twice as large as any before in the history of the United States. What’s in it? What’s coming next?

Then, essential workers in energy: how grid operators are making sure that all-important juice keeps flowing to your home or essential workplace.

And finally, how the oil price shock may – or may not – impact renewables investment from fossil fuel majors.

Mentioned on the show:

Gail Tverberg: Our Infinite World
DSIRE: The database of renewables
Energy Storage News: Editor’s Blog

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0:52.0	This week, the coronavirus shockwave continues with
0:55.4	staggering losses of lives, jobs, and money. So many people applied for
1:00.5	unemployment last week, five times more than ever before.
1:03.4	It was hard for graphic artists to draw a Y-axis that would fit them all.
1:07.3	We saw more claims this week. We're now at 10 million unemployment claims.
1:12.3	With so much turmoil and uncertainty, we're going to dig back into some of the big themes of the week. First a recap of stimulus activity. The day after we saw this huge jump in unemployment numbers the federal government
1:24.0	approved a boost to the economy twice as large as any before in the history of
1:28.5	the US what was in that package what comes next then essential workers in energy, how grid operators and
1:34.8	utilities are making sure that all-important juice keeps flowing to your home or
1:39.6	essential workplace, and finally how the oil price shock may or may not impact renewables
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