The Era of ‘Super Hybrid’ Renewables?
Energy Gang
Wood Mackenzie
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🗓️ 7 August 2020
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode of The Energy Gang: big energy companies are putting together bids for multi- renewable power -- and it’s merchant.
Global investment in offshore wind more than quadrupled in the first half of this year. More new wind farms were approved at the height of the pandemic than during all last year.
Some of offshore projects include storage, and even hydrogen. Some of them include floating solar panels. Is this what the future of projects looks like for oil & gas majors?
Then, is green hydrogen here to stay? One Saudi project unveiled last month is at gigawatt scale. Another major utility is getting out of America’s largest coal plant and making investments in solar-generated hydrogen. Bloom Energy is even making electrolyzers. What does this activity tell us?
And last, there’s a reason Henrik Fisker hasn’t gone away, even after the demise of the Fisker Karma. We dive into the new Fisker Ocean SUV and a spate of other electric car announcements and ask: Does parity on EV prices even matter?
Join us with guest co-host Melissa Lott of the Columbia Center on Global Energy Policy.
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| 1:05.0 | Green Tech Media, this is the Energy Gang. Weekly debates and discussions about the fast-changing world of energy. I'm Stephen Lacy. I'm a contributing editor at |
| 1:24.2 | GTM. Welcome to the show. This week are we entering the era of the renewable |
| 1:29.4 | super-hybrid. Global investment in offshore wind more than quadrupled in the first half of this year. |
| 1:34.8 | More new wind farms were approved at the height of the pandemic during this year than all of last |
| 1:39.7 | year. |
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