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The West to Build Energy Future without China, Russia

December 6, 2022 By Jeremy Jones, CFA

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The developed world is working to carve out an energy future that isn’t reliant on Russian oil and gas or on Chinese solar panels. Camilla Hodgson reports in the Financial Times:

Solar power is undergoing a boom as the energy crisis drives a shift to renewable energy following the war in Ukraine and is expected to surpass coal power by 2027, the International Energy Agency has forecast.

Renewable energy overall will become the largest source of global electricity generation by early 2025, the IEA said, and the world will add twice as much renewable capacity from 2022 to 2027 as in the previous five years.

Not only were countries driving “the expansion of new renewables” to achieve climate goals, but energy security and the need to “diversify” renewables supply chains away from China had become increasingly important, IEA executive director Fatih Birol said in an interview.

“There is a strong competition between the largest economies of the world to have a pole position when it comes to the next chapter of the industry sector,” he said, whether in solar, wind power, batteries or electric vehicles.

The rush to replace the oil and gas that is no longer coming from Russia, and to build domestic renewables sectors, has led to a push for industry incentives and subsidies.

The US is forging ahead with its landmark climate package, the $369bn Inflation Reduction Act, which includes incentives for solar manufacturing through $10bn allocated for tax credits for clean energy overall and $27bn set aside in a “green bank” to support clean energy projects in communities.

Between 2022 and 2027, global renewable power capacity will increase by 2,400 gigawatts, an amount equal to China’s power capacity today, the IEA estimated in its latest annual report on renewable energy. This is 30 per cent higher than the IEA had forecast a year ago.

The US and India are expected to lead diversification of the solar manufacturing supply chain, the IEA said, reducing China’s dominance. Solar investment by the two countries is expected to reach almost $25bn between 2022 and 2027, a sevenfold increase from the past five years.

China, however, will remain a “dominant player”, the IEA said, with its market share estimated at around 75 per cent in 2027 compared with 90 per cent today.

The IEA warned in June that China’s hold on the solar panel supply chain could slow the global shift to cleaner energy. The country will account for almost half of newly added renewable power in the years to 2027, helped by policies included in China’s latest five-year plan, the agency said this week.

The solar boom is expected to pick up pace in the next two years. Iberdrola, a leading European renewable energy company, planned to “more than double our global solar capacity to 10.6 gigawatts by the end of 2025”, said Xabier Viteri Solaun, director of the sustainable energy business.

Solar projects can be developed and built more quickly than other renewable sources, he added, and the company is “seeing an increase in solar capacity being added to new and existing wind farms”.

Even faster growth can occur if European countries make it easier to obtain permits for new projects, improve incentives for rooftop solar installations and offer better terms in renewable energy auctions, the IEA noted.

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Jeremy Jones, CFA, CFP® is the Director of Research at Young Research & Publishing Inc., and the Chief Investment Officer at Richard C. Young & Co., Ltd. CNBC has ranked Richard C. Young & Co., Ltd. as one of the Top 100 Financial Advisors in the nation (2019-2022) Disclosure. Jeremy is also a contributing editor of youngresearch.com.
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