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Category: Renewables

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  • Energy Storage

GAC Group announces that its Aion V, sporting a graphene battery, will start production in September 2021

GAC Group recently announced “a major achievement in battery technology”. GAC stated that it achieved breakthrough progress with its graphene-based super-fast-charging battery and has now entered the phase of actual Continue Reading

Posted On : 3 Mar 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Geothermal
  • USA

Can Abandoned Oil Wells Be Used To Generate Geothermal Power?

“The decade of geothermal” is a phrase that is becoming increasingly common in media and energy industry gatherings as the international zero-emission push comes to include one of the most Continue Reading

Posted On : 2 Mar 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage

New Battery Tech Could Make Solar Energy Storage Even Cheaper

US-based engineers have joined forces to develop high-voltage reference batteries for behind-the-meter energy storage applications, based on a bipolar technology that uses silicon wafers in traditional lead batteries. The wafers Continue Reading

Posted On : 2 Mar 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Hydrogen
  • Japan

Toyota’s New Fuel Cell Module Could Be A Gamechanger For Hydrogen

Toyota Motor Corporation has developed a fuel cell system module and looks to start selling it after the spring this year in a bid to promote hydrogen use and help Continue Reading

Posted On : 27 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Hydrogen

Toyota develops packaged fuel cell system module for sale

Toyota Motor Corporation has developed a product that packages a fuel cell (FC) system into a compact module; the company plans to begin selling it in the spring of 2021 Continue Reading

Posted On : 27 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Germany
  • Hydrogen

Germany receives 200 hydrogen project applications in IPCEI call

Germany’s energy ministry has received around 200 hydrogen project proposals seeking funding under the Important Projects of Common European Interest (IPCEI) program, it said Feb. 25. The IPCEI call was Continue Reading

Posted On : 27 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Biofuels
  • United Kingdom

UK introducing E10 fuel nationwide in September

E10 gasoline blends (10% ethanol) will be introduced at gasoline stations across the UK in September 2021. Its introduction on UK roads could cut transport carbon dioxide emissions by 750,000 Continue Reading

Posted On : 27 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Aviation
  • Renewables

Biggest U.S. Airlines To Discuss Renewable Fuels With White House

The chief executives of the biggest airlines in the United States are set to meet virtually with the White House National Climate Adviser and an economic adviser to the President Continue Reading

Posted On : 26 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage

QuantumScape (QS) Stock Soars After Company Reports on Battery Advance

QuantumScape Corp., an electric-vehicle-battery startup, soared as much as 12% in late trading after saying it cleared a key hurdle in the development of its technology. The company, which is attempting Continue Reading

Posted On : 26 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Wind

Europe adds 14.7 GW wind capacity in 2020, led by Netherlands

Some 14.7 GW of wind power capacity were installed in Europe last year, down 6% on 2019 and 19% below forecast, sector association WindEurope said Feb. 25. Not registered? Receive Continue Reading

Posted On : 26 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • France
  • Hydrogen

France launches hydrogen council, 3.2 GW of electrolyzer projects seek IPCEI funding

France’s national hydrogen council has presented initial plans for 3.2 GW of large-scale electrolysis capacity to key ministers, the council said Feb. 25. The projects, which require some Eur8 billion Continue Reading

Posted On : 26 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Ammonia

Ammonia-fueled tanker coalition gains new members; now called The Castor Initiative; first tanker by 2025

Little more than a year after a Joint Development Project (JDP) to develop an ammonia-fueled tanker design was launched by LR, MISC Berhad, MAN Energy Solutions and Samsung Heavy Industries Continue Reading

Posted On : 25 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Hydrogen
  • India

Fuel for Thought: For green hydrogen to catch up with blue, it’s a long ride in India

India has unveiled a national hydrogen mission to accelerate plans to generate the carbon-free fuel from renewables, but analysts said that green hydrogen will struggle to compete with fossil fuel Continue Reading

Posted On : 25 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Waves

BOEM Issues First Wave Energy Lease Off West Coast

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has issued a lease for the first wave energy research project in federal waters off the U.S. West Coast. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Continue Reading

Posted On : 25 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Solar

Scientists Warn That Filling The Sahara With Solar Panels Is A Bad Idea

Two years ago, a team of Finnish scientists estimated that the world needs to get 69 percent of its primary energy from solar farms in order to achieve its ambitious Continue Reading

Posted On : 24 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage

FutureBridge expects cost-parity between solid-state and Li-ion batteries by 2025

Market analysis firm FutureBridge expects that cost-parity between Li-ion and solid-state batteries could be achieved in another five years. Solid-state batteries (SSBs) promise a leap forward, compared to incremental gains Continue Reading

Posted On : 24 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage

Investment In Battery Tech Exploded In 2020

Last fall Swedish lithium-ion battery maker Northvolt announced that it had raised $600 million in equity to invest in capacity expansion, research and development, and large-scale recycling. The capital raise Continue Reading

Posted On : 23 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Wind

Offshore Wind Industry Looks To Add Nearly 1 Million New Jobs

The Covid-19 downturn has once again caused employment rates to plummet in the oil and gas industry. Even though some uptick is expected when the recovery arrives, employment will never Continue Reading

Posted On : 22 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Geothermal

Big Oil Invests In Geothermal Energy Breakthrough

BP and Chevron, this Tuesday, announced plans to invest heavily in geothermal energy through a new innovative start up. The new technology introduced by Canadian startup Eavor, pronounced “ever”, provides Continue Reading

Posted On : 19 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Hydrogen

Global hydrogen projects accelerating with $300 billion proposed investment: report

Hydrogen initiatives are accelerating globally, the Hydrogen Council said Feb. 17 in a report co-authored with consultancy McKinsey. Receive daily email alerts, subscriber notes & personalize your experience. Register Now Continue Reading

Posted On : 19 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Hydrogen
  • Japan

Japan’s liquefied hydrogen transport from Australia likely to take place July-August

Japan’s transport of liquefied hydrogen from Australia, which will be the first in the world, now looks to be taking place around July-August from a previous target of end-March because Continue Reading

Posted On : 19 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Hydrogen

Texas has resources, infrastructure to become global hydrogen hub: speakers

Texas is well-poised to become a global hydrogen hub, given that it already has significant production, demand and infrastructure, webinar speakers said Feb. 18 Receive daily email alerts, subscriber notes Continue Reading

Posted On : 19 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Wind

Vestas Looks at Wind Turbines Made of Wood With Startup Stake

Vestas Wind Systems A/S bought a minority stake in a Swedish startup that builds turbine towers out of wood. The move by the world’s largest manufacturer of wind turbines could help Continue Reading

Posted On : 19 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage

QuantumScape (QS) Stock Soars After Company Reports on Battery Advance

QuantumScape Corp., an electric-vehicle-battery startup, soared as much as 12% in late trading after saying it cleared a key hurdle in the development of its technology. The company, which is attempting Continue Reading

Posted On : 18 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Hydrogen
  • United Kingdom

U.K. Homes Heated by Just Hydrogen Could Be Everywhere by 2050

Heating U.K. homes with just hydrogen could be mainstream in a few decades as the government expect technology costs to plunge just like they have for wind energy. To accelerate the Continue Reading

Posted On : 17 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Geothermal

Big Oil Invests in Startup That Drills for Clean Energy

Companies including the venture arms of BP Plc and Chevron Corp. invested $40 million in a startup that aims to use the fossil fuel industry’s drilling experience to expand a technology that harvests Continue Reading

Posted On : 16 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Hydrogen

Will Green Hydrogen Save the Planet or Become a Costly Detour?

The world is on the brink of what may turn out to be its most important energy experiment. If proposals to build a new industry producing so-called green hydrogen succeed, we may have Continue Reading

Posted On : 16 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Renewables

Oil companies don’t want to be known for oil anymore

In a speech to his board of directors on Monday, Patrick Pouyanné, the CEO of French oil giant Total, announced that the company planned to change its name to TotalEnergies. Continue Reading

Posted On : 16 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage

UNIST team develops new electrolyte additive for high-energy-density Li-ion batteries

Researchers at the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) in Korea have developed an innovative electrolyte additive that enables a high-energy-density Li-ion battery to retain more than 80% Continue Reading

Posted On : 15 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • USA
  • Wind

Biden Sets The Stage For An Offshore Wind Energy Boom

The U-turn of the U.S. Administration’s energy policies under President Joe Biden sets the stage for a flourishing U.S. offshore wind industry, as the federal government looks to speed up Continue Reading

Posted On : 15 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Shipping
  • Wind

Michelin to ship tires on sail-powered cargo ships

The Michelin Group recently signed a transport commitment with the French shipping line NEOLINE . NEOLINE’s decarbonized shipping service relies on wind energy as the main propulsion for its 136m Continue Reading

Posted On : 15 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage

Uppsala team develops composite polymer dots for efficient, stable H2 production from water and sunlight

Researchers at Uppsala University have developed photocatalytic composite polymer nanoparticles (“polymer dots”) that show promising performance and stability for the production of hydrogen from water and sunlight. An open-access paper Continue Reading

Posted On : 15 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage

Utility-Scale Batteries Return 82% Of Stored Electricity

The utility-scale batteries operating in the United States had an efficiency of retrieving the stored electricity at 82 percent in 2019, data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) showed Continue Reading

Posted On : 13 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Hydrogen

HyDeal Ambition to deliver green hydrogen across Europe at the price of fossil fuels; 3.6Mt green H2/year by 2030

After 2 years of research and confidential preparation, a group of 30 European energy players has launched HyDeal Ambition with the aim of delivering 100% green hydrogen across Europe at Continue Reading

Posted On : 13 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Tidal

The Most Overlooked Energy Source On Earth

About a month ago, a report by clean energy watchdog Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) confirmed that the renewable energy sector has remained the most resilient to the ravages of Continue Reading

Posted On : 12 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Hydrogen

C-Zero raises $11.5M Series A to produce clean hydrogen from natural gas via methane pyrolysis

C-Zero Inc., a pioneer in natural gas decarbonization, recently raised $11.5 million in a Series A funding round co-led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures and Eni Next, with participation from Mitsubishi Continue Reading

Posted On : 12 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Solar
  • Wind

Solar and Wind Are Reaching for the Last 90% of the U.S. Power Market – Bloomberg

Three decades ago, the U.S. passed an infinitesimal milestone: solar and wind power generated one-tenth of one percent of the country’s electricity. It took 18 years, until 2008, for solar Continue Reading

Posted On : 12 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Wind

Making Wind Turbines Greener Could Also Make Them More Expensive

The world’s biggest wind turbine manufacturers have committed to eliminating their net emissions of greenhouse gases, but reducing the carbon footprint of their production process may mean customers have to Continue Reading

Posted On : 12 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage

Corporate Investment In Battery Tech Has Exploded

At a time when the Covid-19 pandemic continues to decimate the global transport sector, the EV trajectory has remained incredibly bullish. S&P Global has reported that global EV sales expanded Continue Reading

Posted On : 11 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Solar
  • United Arab Emirates

UAE Aims To Triple Its Solar Installations By 2025

The installed renewable capacity of the United Arab Emirates, which until recently was nearly non-existent, concluded 2020 at 2.3 gigawatts (GW), around 91% of which comprises of solar PV projects, Continue Reading

Posted On : 10 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Taiwan
  • Wind

Jumbo completes transportation part of its largest job: T&I for Yunlin offshore wind

Representing a significant milestone in the largest job in its history, Jumbo has completed the transportation element of its Transport & Installation contract for the Yunlin offshore wind farm in Continue Reading

Posted On : 10 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Hydrogen

Air Liquide and Siemens Energy to develop a large-scale electrolyzer partnership for sustainable hydrogen production

Air Liquide and Siemens Energy have signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the objective to combine their expertise in PEM (Proton Exchange Membrane) electrolysis technology. They intend to focus their Continue Reading

Posted On : 10 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Hydrogen

The Hydrogen Economy Is No Longer A Pipe Dream

The fifth World Energy Forum, hosted by the Atlantic Council as part of the Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week, occurred virtually late last month. In conjunction, Atlantic Council released a first Continue Reading

Posted On : 9 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Wind

Amazon Moves On Its Largest Renewable Project

Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) has reached a deal for its largest renewable energy project yet—one that will allow it to purchase 380 MW of wind energy. Hollandse Kust Noord—a wind farm Continue Reading

Posted On : 9 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • USA
  • Wind

Offshore Wind Farms, Big in Europe, Could Boom in U.S. Under Biden

Developers of offshore wind farms, long awaiting their moment in the U.S., are pushing the Biden administration to cut through red tape that has for years stymied the industry’s domestic Continue Reading

Posted On : 8 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage
  • Europe

EC approves second major battery innovation project; €2.9B (US$3.5B) from 12 member states

The European Commission has approved , under EU State aid rules, a second Important Project of Common European Interest (IPCEI) to support research and innovation in the battery value chain. Continue Reading

Posted On : 8 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • South Korea
  • Wind

South Korea To Build World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm

South Korea will invest some $43 billion in constructing what is to be the world’s largest offshore wind farm, Reuters reports , adding that the project should be completed by Continue Reading

Posted On : 6 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage
  • Renewables

Energy storage must present itself as a solution to renewable integration woes: McCarthy

Highlights Climate adviser eyes more innovation, faster deployment Storage must be built into system along with generation Must communicate ‘that we have solutions’ The energy storage industry must craft a Continue Reading

Posted On : 6 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Renewables

How the race for renewable energy is reshaping global politics

While the world was locked down by coronavirus last year, Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest, chairman of Fortescue Metals Group, was on the move. The billionaire mining magnate and his entourage toured Continue Reading

Posted On : 5 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Denmark
  • Wind

Denmark to build North Sea island to serve as wind power hub

Denmark has agreed to build an island in the North Sea that would gather and distribute electricity from wind energy farms. The 210-billion kroner ($34 billion) artificial island will be Continue Reading

Posted On : 5 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple

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