Youtube documentary bbc renewable energy

Allan Little investigates the best way to capture, store and redistribute the renewable sources of energy freely available all over the world – wind, solar and hydro.

The sun gives earth enough potential power in one hour to provide the total energy needs of the globe for a year – if only we could catch and store it.

From a purely economic angle, the costs of renewables are now cheaper than fossil fuels.

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High inside the Arctic circle, the archipelago of Svalbard is one of the fastest warming places on Earth.

What are the challenges the world faces in the transition to renewable energy – and what are the possible solutions?

The push towards renewable energy and the quest for greater efficiency mean that we need to find more ways of storing energy.

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So what is holding us back from harnessing the power of the sun and wind to secure our net-zero future? Vested interests in traditional energies for one, but also local controversies over the disruption involved in building big, renewable power stations; they’re often unwelcome and unwanted.

Allan heads to one of the windiest places on earth, the Shetland Islands, north-east of the Scottish mainland. A remote, beautiful, isolated collection of archipelagos, Shetland is leading the way for transitioning out of fossil fuels to on and off-shore wind farms,