Energy

Solar Technology

Current and Future Prospective for Battery Controllers of Solar PV Integrated Battery Energy Storage Systems

Solar photovoltaic (PV) microgrids have gained popularity in recent years as a way to improve the stability of intermittent renewable energy generation in syste…

Electric Car

Why EVs Aren’t a Climate Change Panacea Unless People Change Their Behaviors, We Won’t Hit 2050 Net Zero Emissions Targets

Teslas in a parking lot after arriving at a port in Yokohama, Japan. TORU HANAI/BLOOMBERG/GETTY IMAGESElectric cars will not save the climate. It is completely …

Solar Power Plant

Solar Wadi to Build 100MW Solar PV Plant in Oman

Once completed, the plant will provide the tenants of Suhar Industrial City with a cheaper source of electricity, while also allowing them to meet their decarbo…

Electric Car

Government Launches New Intake Model for Zero-Emission Vehicles Infrastructure Funding

Reducing pollution from the transportation sector is critical to Canada achieving its climate targets while creating good jobs and making life more affordable f…

Energy Subsidies

EU Must Answer U.S. Clean Energy Subsidies, Commissioner Says on Washington Visit

European Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton speaks at a news conference in Brussels, Belgium, September 19, 2022. REUTERS/Yves Herman/File PhotoWASHING…

Energy Storage System

Milestone for Major Pumped Hydro Storage Project in Wyoming

A Utah-based company is developing a pumped hydro energy storage project in the heart of coal country, one of several renewable energy deployments being sited i…

Geothermal Power Plant

Geothermal ‘Battery’ Repurposes Abandoned Oil and Gas Well in Illinois, Researchers Report

A conceptual schematic of the type of advanced geothermal energy storage system demonstrated in this study. Credit: Tugce Baser and Renewable EnergyResearchers …

Hydrogen Production

Germany and Australia to Strengthen Energy Cooperation

Germany’s Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection and Vice-Chancellor Robert Habeck and the Australian Minister for Energy and Climat…

Energy Technology

Stability of Perovskite Solar Cells Reaches Next Milestone

In the control perovskite layer (left), the microcrystals are not perfectly ordered and voids can form. In the new variant (right), the dipolar polymer cushions…

Wind Turbine

Norway Just Greenlit This Vertical-Axis Floating Wind Turbine

Swedish wind turbine maker SeaTwirl got the go-ahead to test its 1 megawatt (MW) S2X vertical-axis floating offshore prototype in Norway.Vertical-axis floating …

Wind Farm

Capital Energy Will Install a Wind Farm and a Photovoltaic Plant in Almería

The agreements are subject to the development of the Peregiles wind farm and the La Rambla photovoltaic plant, which will be located in the aforementioned munic…

Nuclear Reactor

Ukrainian Cabinet Approves Start of Work on New Khmelnitsky Reactors

Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers has given the green light for work to begin to develop project documentation for the construction of two Westinghouse AP100…

Microgrid

Husk Power Systems Proves Rural Minigrids Can Be Profitable

There is a common belief that profit-building minigrids are impossible in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. Husk Power released financial data today that illus…

Geothermal Power Plant

Le Chesnay-Rocquencourt, France to Be Supplied With Geothermal Heating by 2025

Mignot Hospital, Le Chesnay-Rocquencourt, Yvelines, France (source: Département des Yvelines / flilckr, Creative Commons)A geothermal heating project in …

Nuclear Reactor

GE Hitachi Signs Contract for the First North American Small Modular Reactor

GE Hitachi BWRX-300 small modular reactor.GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH), Ontario Power Generation (OPG), SNC-Lavalin and Aecon have signed a contract for the …