⭕ NEW: The first-ever Global Renewables Summit to drive action on global #3xRenewables target has been announced by a powerful cross-sectoral coalition In September, the Global Renewables Alliance (GRA) and Bloomberg Philanthropies, in partnership with the Government of Barbados and Kenya, the European Commission, the COP28 UAE and COP29 Azerbaijan Presidencies, the International Energy Agency (IEA), the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL), and the Center on Global Energy Policy, will host the Global Renewables Summit in New York #GRS24. GRS24 will be the first-ever public-private summit where leaders from industry, government, intergovernmental organisations, NGOs, philanthropy, and COP presidencies convene to discuss the progress, opportunities, and challenges of tripling renewable energy globally by 2030, aiming to accelerate the clean energy transition. Held in New York during the 79th UN General Assembly High-Level Week in September, GRS24 is set to be the firing gun of a race to the top on the global achievement of the #3xRenewables target. “At COP28, a coalition of private sector, civil society, governments, and multilateral organisations collectively secured a global target to triple renewables by 2030. Now, it’s time for action,” said Bruce Douglas, CEO of GRA. “Renewable technologies are mature and competitive, and the industries are ready to deliver, but the right policy frameworks and implementation are now urgently required. We are honoured to co-host this unique public-private summit with some of the leading organisations in the world to ignite a worldwide race to the top, accelerating action on finance, permits, grids, and supply chains to unleash the full potential of renewables.” ▶️ For updates, follow the Global Renewables Alliance Find out more about #GRS24: https://lnkd.in/dg8QJf-R 🌎 The Global Renewable Summit 2024 Organisers Global Renewables Alliance and Bloomberg Philanthropies Partners The Government of Barbados, Kenya, the European Commission, COP28 UAE, COP29 Azerbaijan, the International Energy Agency (IEA), the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL), and the Center on Global Energy Policy, GRA Founding Members Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC), Global Solar Council (GSC), International Hydropower Association (IHA), Long Duration Energy Storage Council (LDES Council), International Geothermal Association and Green Hydrogen Organisation - GH2.
About us
The Global Renewables Alliance (GRA) was established by the Global Wind Energy Council, Global Solar Council, International Hydropower Association, Green Hydrogen Organisation, Long-Duration Energy Storage Council and the International Geothermal Association to unify the global bodies representing the clean technologies required for a net zero world by 2050. Collectively we strengthen the private sector’s voice on accelerating the energy transition, and are calling for action to deliver on the global #3xRenewables target agreed at COP28. #Time4Action #3xRenewables
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https://globalrenewablesalliance.org
External link for Global Renewables Alliance
- Industry
- Renewable Energy Power Generation
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- Brussels
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- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 2023
- Specialties
- Renewable Energy, Wind Energy, Solar Energy, Hydropower, Green Hydrogen, Energy Storage, Geothermal Energy, Clean Energy, Green Power, and Energy Transition
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Brussels, GB
Employees at Global Renewables Alliance
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Charlie Rudkin
Starter | Connector | Advisor | Leader
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Julia Souder
Chief Executive Officer @Long Duration Energy Storage Council | Chair Global Renewables Alliance | Doer Who Loves 2 Solve the Impossible in an…
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Ben Backwell
CEO at Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC), scaling up the wind industry as a key climate solution.
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♻️ Trigya Singh
Senior Coordinator | Speaker and Moderator | B.Sc Biotechnology, MBA Marketing, M.Sc Sustainable Development
Updates
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🕑 24/7 carbon-free electricity: what, why and how? Join GRA's senior coordinator and corporate sourcing specialist ♻️ Trigya Singh at Climate Group's The Hub Live 2024 #ClimateWeekNYC, where she will dive into the key challenges and solution to match carbon-free electricity (#CFE) around the clock with a stellar panel of CFE experts. Register to follow the livestream: https://lnkd.in/dwVV7Gyp 🇰🇷 Want to gain more insights on corporate sourcing and meet other energy buyers and producers? Join GRA's flagship Corporate Sourcing event during the #APACWindEnergySummit in South Korea ➡ https://lnkd.in/dYN6iexj #Time4Action #247CFE
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Participants from 14 countries across Africa and Latin America joined GRA member Green Hydrogen Organisation - GH2 for their Green Hydrogen Policy Accelerator Training Course in Cairo. See more ⤵
🌍 Last week in Cairo, we hosted a Green Hydrogen Policy Accelerator Training Course with participants from 14 countries across Africa and Latin America. Key insights included the importance of securing reliable offtake agreements, developing critical infrastructure, and ensuring robust legislative frameworks for green hydrogen projects. Our visit to the Suez Canal Economic Zone highlighted Africa's potential in leading the green energy transition. Thank you again to our partners International Solar Alliance and Nile University without whom this training would not have been possible. Read all about the training course in our Weekly Wrap below ⬇ Joe Williams | Jonas Moberg | Simran SINHA | Bénédicte De Caro | Sam Bartlett | Vanina Morrison | Caroline Biotteau | Nishaanth Balashanmugam | Parth Sharma | Global Renewables Alliance #GreenHydrogen #Sustainability #EnergyTransition
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Don’t miss this Eurelectric #PowerChat featuring GRA's CEO, Bruce Douglas! Kristian Ruby and Bruce will be discussing our #3xRenewables campaign, what to expect from COP29 in Baku, and the critical need to invest in grids for delivering clean electricity. Join us live on LinkedIn and YouTube on 12 September at 10 AM CET. Click 'Attend' to receive notifications in advance 👇
#PowerChat is back! This time, we're honoured to welcome Bruce Douglas, who will discuss the Global Renewables Alliance's mission to triple global renewable energy capacity and double energy efficiency by 2030. Kristian Ruby will be asking him about the global 2030 targets, what we can expect from COP29 in Baku, and the critical need to invest in grids to deliver clean electricity. Let us know in the comments what topics you'd like them to cover. Join us live on LinkedIn and YouTube on 12 September at 10 AM CET. Don't forget to click 'Attend' to receive notifications in advance 👇 #energy #renewables #electricity #electrification #decarbonisation
Tripling renewables: time to invest in the grid's future
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🎯 Time to strategise! Heading into the second half of 2024 with an agenda packed with groundbreaking opportunities to transform the global energy system, GRA’s Steering Committee reunited in Lisbon to turn ambition into action. Focused on the critical milestones at #GRS24, #CEM15, and #COP29, our leadership team explored how the private sector can forge powerful collaborations with governments, institutions, and organisations to accelerate policy development and industry growth, as the world strives to realise the #3xRenewables target. We extend our gratitude to the external experts Erik Solheim, former Minister of the Environment and International Development of Norway, Pedro Amaral Jorge, CEO of APREN - Associação Portuguesa de Energias Renováveis, and Hugo Costa, Portugal Country Manager of EDP Renewables, for contributing with valuable insights. Now, it’s #Time4Action. GRA Steering Committee Ben Backwell Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) | Sonia Dunlop Global Solar Council (GSC)| Eddie Rich International Hydropower Association (IHA) | Julia Souder Long Duration Energy Storage Council (LDES Council) | Jonas Moberg Green Hydrogen Organisation - GH2| Marit Brommer International Geothermal Association | Bruce Douglas
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⭕ #GRS24 COUNTDOWN - one month to go! “At COP28, a coalition of private sector, civil society, governments, and multilateral organisations collectively secured a global target to triple renewables by 2030. Now, it’s time for action to deliver on this target”, highlights Bruce Douglas, CEO of GRA, as the first-ever Global Renewables Summit approaches. The high-level summit is set to ignite a worldwide race to the top, conveying governments, the private sector, philanthropy, international organisations, and academia to accelerate action on finance, permits, grids, and supply chains to unleash the full potential of renewables. Follow the Global Renewables Alliance for updates from the summit ✅ 🌎 The Global Renewables Summit 2024 https://lnkd.in/dT7ZeKSD Co-hosts Global Renewables Alliance and Bloomberg Philanthropies Partners The Government of Barbados, the Government of Kenya, the European Commission, COP28 UAE, COP29 Azerbaijan, the International Energy Agency (IEA), the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL), and the Center on Global Energy Policy Event Partners Green Grids Initiative (GGI), Planning for Climate Coalition (PCC), Breakthrough Agenda (BA), Industrial Transition Accelerator (ITA) - Mission Possible Partnership, The Powering Past Coal Alliance (PPCA), the International Labor Organization (ILO), and the Utilities for Net Zero Alliance (UNEZA) GRA Members Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) Ben Backwell | Global Solar Council (GSC) Sonia Dunlop | International Hydropower Association (IHA) Eddie Rich | Long Duration Energy Storage Council (LDES Council) Julia Souder | Green Hydrogen Organisation - GH2 Jonas Moberg | International Geothermal Association Marit Brommer | Bruce Douglas Kindly note that the Summit is invite only and has reached maximum capacity. #Time4Action #3xRenewables
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Bruce Douglas, CEO of GRA, had a meeting this week with Ann Mettler, Vice President, Europe at Breakthrough Energy 🤝 ⤵ Read more about their insightful discussion on #energystorage below.
Vice President, Europe at Breakthrough Energy. Previously, Director-General at European Commission. Views are my own, often rooted in 20+ years of experience in public policy.
Great way to kick off la rentrée: Strategizing about a clean technology that’s ready for prime time at COP29 How wonderful that my first meeting after the summer holiday was with Bruce Douglas, CEO of the Global Renewables Alliance and one of the key architects of the ‘Tripling Renewables’ target launched at #cop28. Luckily, it is now dawning on Leaders across the globe that such a target needs to be complemented with sizeable increases in #energystorage. This is not a ‘nice to have’ but one of the foundational pillars for achieving a fully renewable power grid, and therefore a successful #energytransition. That is why Bruce and many others are now working towards a global energy storage target to be launched at #cop29. What’s genuinely puzzling is that the EU lacks a dedicated #storage strategy - this despite making renewables the backbone of its energy transition. Has it not occurred to anyone that the wind may not always blow and the sun not always shine? Knowing that for many observers ‘storage tech’ is a broad, indiscriminate bucket, it’s important to realize that there are different approaches, all of which deserve policy attention, funding, demand and offtake. Using some of the Breakthrough Energy Ventures portfolio companies as examples, here is an overview: ➡️ Mechanical Storage: Quidnet Energy is advancing geomechanical pumped storage, which stores energy in underground reservoirs, offering scalable solutions for diverse locations. ➡️ Electrochemical Storage: Form Energy is pioneering iron-air batteries that provide 100 hours of electricity, enhancing grid resilience. ESS, Inc. is developing flow batteries with long-duration capabilities, while Our Next Energy (ONE) is pushing the boundaries of lithium-ion batteries, vital for short-term, rapid-response storage. ➡️ Thermal Storage: Malta Inc. is revolutionizing energy storage with molten salt technology, converting heat back into electricity on demand. Rondo Energy, Antora Energy, and Fourth Power are leading with high-temperature heat storage solutions for industrial use. ➡️ Chemical Storage: Chemical storage technologies convert surplus renewable energy into chemical forms, like hydrogen or synthetic gas, for long-term storage and flexible use, playing a critical role in balancing the energy grid. At COP 28, the EU was instrumental in driving the ‘tripling renewables target’. For COP29, there’s talk of calling for a six-fold (!) increase in global storage capacity. Given that these technologies are more nascent and less widely deployed, there's a lot of catching up to do. Even in the absence of a storage strategy of its own, the EU should embrace this target wholeheartedly. The benefits will extend beyond #climate because new, sizeable #markets will be built, #resilience be strengthened and #innovation be powered. Sounds to me like the perfect hallmark for the forthcoming Clean Industrial Deal? 🤔
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⏰ The ‘Internationalisation of Hourly Matching’ webinar is now available online! In partnership with Climate Group, GRA organised a webinar with corporate experts discussing corporate sourcing of 24/7 carbon-free energy (CFE). Watch the recording here: https://lnkd.in/dSXw4z7m Ahead of #GRS24, #CorporateSourcing of #247CFE is a topic that renewable energy stakeholders must be informed about. Its goal is to make clean energy available to energy buyers all the time, everywhere. That is essential for the clean energy transition, and a series of actions are needed to reach that. Here are the main takeaways from the webinar: ▶️ Achieving high-impact corporate sourcing of renewable energy through hourly matching can push additional renewables capacity into the energy system. ▶️ 10 to 15% of new renewable energy capacity is triggered by corporate sourcing. ▶️ Transitioning from yearly matching to hourly matching is a gradual process, in which one should focus first on strategic areas for improvement. ▶️ A first priority should be local sourcing, to match energy consumption to renewable energy production within the same grid and to promote local renewables deployment. ▶️ Starting with measuring granular data is also crucial. “24/7 CFE is really for everyone, not just for big companies. Start today, you can start small by first collecting data and measuring your local and hourly procurement to see what your baseline CFE score is. That is what Google did first, and back then we had to do a lot of it ourselves. Now, there are so many amazing data and software partners, like LevelTen Energy and Granular Energy, who can help in simplifying that data collection, aggregation and calculation”, said Savannah Goodman, from Google. For more detailed explanations and examples from around the world of adoption of #HourlyMatching, watch the recording and hear the valuable inputs from: 🔵Savannah Goodman, Data and Software Climate Solutions Lead at Google 🔵Katie Soroye, VP of Granular Procurement Solutions at LevelTen Energy 🔵Natalie Valentin, North America Commercial Lead at Granular Energy We will put corporate sourcing in the spotlight at our flagship event ‘Time 4 Action: Corporate Sourcing’ during GWEC's APAC Wind Energy Summit 2024, in South Korea. For more information and registration, visit: https://lnkd.in/dYN6iexj GRA members Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) Ben Backwell | Global Solar Council (GSC) Sonia Dunlop | International Hydropower Association (IHA) Eddie Rich | Long Duration Energy Storage Council (LDES Council) Julia Souder | Green Hydrogen Organisation - GH2 Jonas Moberg | International Geothermal Association Marit Brommer | Bruce Douglas
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🖐️ What are the five key enablers to accelerate a clean energy transition? Francesco La Camera, Director-General of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), highlights key takeaways from the joint report by IRENA, COP28 UAE and GRA. 📑 Read the full report here: https://lnkd.in/dnavfWvG
The energy transition is not on track to limit global warming to 1.5°C. So, the next natural question is: what can we do to accelerate progress? 👇
Five Key Enablers to Accelerate the Energy Transition
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