EV

U.S. Presidential Election: Climate Is A Top Priority

Another climate action “first” this year will be the 2020 U.S. Presidential election. Never before has climate change featured as a top priority for American …

Plant-Microbial Fuel Cell Powered IOT

A trio of researcher groups have developed a way to power tiny sensors with plants, including Harwell who specialize in extremely low powered IoT devices.

Electric Car

Fuel cell EVs Expected to Be The Cheapest Commercial Vehicles within 10 Years

At the CES 2020 trade show, Ballard Power Systems and Deloitte China announced the release of a joint White Paper that projects fuel cell EVs to be less expensi…

Microsoft Promise to Sequestered More Carbon Than It Has Ever Emitted by 2050

Tech giant Microsoft has today unveiled one of the most sweeping sustainability strategies in corporate history, promising it will become a 'carbon negative' or…

Photoelectrochemical Water-Splitting Efficiency Hits 4.5%

Solar-to-fuel conversion offers a promising technology to solve energy problems, yet device performance could be limited by undesired sunlight absorption.

Uganda Made New Energy Policy to Promote Solar And Geothermal Power

Under a new planned national energy policy, Uganda plans to promote development of solar and geothermal projects while also increasing demand for and better aff…

Nuclear Power Plant

How Drawing Digital Insights from Nuclear’s Past can Create a Safer Industry

Nearly a decade after the major earthquake and tsunami that irreversibly damaged four of Fukushima Daiichi’s nuclear reactors in Japan, China and India are rea…

A System That Leverages Radiative Cooling with High Efficiency

SkyCool Systems has developed a system that leverages radiative cooling to improve the efficiency of refrigeration and air conditioning – and even to generate …

Electric Vehicle Charging

​Moixa And Honda Launch Smart EV Charging Project in London

Moixa, a smart battery and electric vehicle (EV) charging software developer, and Honda are unveiling a smart EV charging project with Islington Council to opti…

Climate Change Is a Planetary Emergency — How Can We Avert Disaster?

We have already crossed a number of 'tipping points' in the Earth system; vital thresholds beyond which irreversible and catastrophic consequences for all life …

Energy storage technology

Energy Storage: A Necessary Part of Decarbonising, Smart Electricity Systems

2019 illustrated electricity systems’ requirement for greater flexibility, which energy storage technologies are ideally suited to provide. Two events in Great…

Ukraine to Boost Renewables And Energy Efficiency with EU's Help

Ukraine can focus in developing the country’s renewable energy sector and improve the much-delayed energy efficiency now that the former Soviet republic has co…

Solar And Wave-Powered Cleanup System for Collecting Plastics And Other Marine Debris

Calgary-based Technika Engineering is developing technology for collecting plastics and other marine debris from water surfaces powered by solar and wave energy…

World's First Small Hydropower Technical Guidelines Published

The International Small Hydropower Federation and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization officially published the international standard "Techni…

Coal Power

Germany Plans to Phase Out The Use of Brown Coal

Germany has reached an agreement with the regions most affected by a plan to phase out the use of brown coal, or lignite, for its power plants by providing abou…