By a number of metrics, 2021 was the best year for renewable energy on record. The energy industry added as much as 37GW of new solar and wind capacity last year. 2022 isn’t looking nearly as promising, with the rate of renewable growth steadily falling. In 2020, at the height of the novel coronavirus pandemic, it seemed that renewable energy was finally getting its chance to rise to the top of the global energy sector and reset the world’s trajectory toward a genuine green energy transition. COVID-19 had provided an unprecedented interruption to the status quo and given the world a unique window of opportunity to reset the industrial rules of engagement with intentionality and future-thinking optimism. Oil prices bottomed out, it seemed that the era of peak oil was finally upon us , and renewable energy was receiving more column inches and investor attention than ever before. And […]