The Climate Group
Business has a huge opportunity to drive innovative solutions on renewable heating and cooling, and must be supported by ambitious government policy, the Climate Group says today.
“With heating and cooling accounting for 75% of industrial energy use it’s vital we adopt cleaner and smarter solutions globally. Businesses and governments can – and must – lead the way.
“Leading companies are setting long-term goals for renewable heating and cooling, and rolling out innovative sourcing models. State and regional governments are also making clean energy a top priority, with renewables accounting for almost half of reported electricity use last year.
Global renewable energy bodies Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) and Global Solar Council (GSC) have jointly called on the Government of Mexico to restore the country’s transition to clean power.
GWEC and GSC issued a joint statement in response to the reversals to key parts of the Electricity Act, called Ley de la Industria Electrica (LIE), approved by the lower parliamentary chamber earlier this week.
The bill potentially further relegates renewable energy supply to the “back of the queue” in Mexico, unwinding the progress made in its energy transition over the last decade and reversing the “landmark” liberalisation of the energy market in 2015, the bodies said.
Mexican government called on to reboot energy transition
Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Image: The White House/Wikimedia Commons
The Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) and Global Solar Council (GSC) have called on Mexican lawmakers to prevent changes to the country’s Electricity Act, Ley de la Industria Electrica (LIE), which pose what they call “an unequivocal threat” to private investment in clean energy.
The groups issued a joint statement this week, responding to controversial reforms that Mexico’s lower house of Congress approved on Wednesday (24 February). Currently, the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) has to buy renewable energy through auctions, but if the reforms are passed through the upper house, this would no longer be required.
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