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Tesla and PG&E Launch Virtual Power Plant Programme

Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) and Tesla Inc. have launched a pilot programme that creates a virtual power plant (VPP) to help support electric grid re…

Gastech Unveils 2022 Programme and Speakers

Gastech, with co-hosts Baker Hughes, Chevron, Eni, and Tellurian, has announced the conference programme for its 50-year anniversary edition, Gastech 2022 in Mi…

Carbon Emissions

Vattenfall’s Wind Power Reduces Carbon Footprint

The carbon footprint of Vattenfall’s wind power has now been reduced to 13 grammes per kilowatt hour generated, compared to 15 grammes in 2016, and the reducti…

Electric Vehicle Battery

Green Energy Transition: Upcycling EV Batteries Into Graphene Oxide

Sales of electric vehicles (EVs) are soaring, and this means that in the coming decades, there will be a sudden influx of spent batteries which will overwhelm c…

Solar Blanket: Sustainable, Self-Sufficient Renewable Energy

A recent graduate of the MA Material Futures at Central Saint Martin’s (CSM), London, Mirielle Steinhage has conceived of a solar-powered blanket that could gr…

Smart Meter

Isle of Man: 50,000 Smart Meter Replacements Underway

A plan to upgrade 50,000 meters into smart meters on the Isle of Man has begun, with the island’s 8,000 key meters as the starting point.

Minigrids Expanding Energy Access in Burkina Faso, Liberia and Zambia

The Beyond the Grid Fund for Africa (BGFA) programme has signed four further agreements with off-grid energy service companies in Burkina Faso, Liberia and Zamb…

Geothermal Power Plant

Slovakia Makes EU Funds Available for Geothermal Exploration Drilling

With the new European funding program, Slovakia has made EU funds available for geothermal exploration drilling, thus addressing the riskiest phase of developme…

Mexico

Mexico Senate Identifies Geothermal As Critical to Energy Transition

Having recognized geothermal as fundamental for clean energy transition, legislators in Mexico have requested a report on the programs for geothermal exploratio…

Electric Car

Smart Grid Integration of EVs Pilots in Germany

Northeast German DSO Mitnetz Strom and Volkswagen subsidiary Elli have launched a nationwide electric vehicle (EV) grid integration pilot.

United Kingdom

Ofgem Injects £20.9BN Into UK’s Energy Grid Upgrade

Ofgem has announced a five-year vision, from 2023 to 2028, to transform UK energy grids to support the transition to a low-carbon energy system.

Energy Storage Project

IESA: India ‘Needs at Least 160GWH of Energy Storage’ to Meet 2030 Renewable Energy Target

​To integrate a targeted 500GW of non-fossil fuel energy onto its networks by 2030, at least 160GWh of energy storage will be needed in India by that time, acc…

CCS

‘UK’s Largest’ Carbon Capture Plant Opens

Carbon dioxide captured from power generation emissions will be used as raw material in the manufacture of pharmaceutical grade sodium bicarbonate

Energy Transition

Greece to Mobilise €1.63BN Investment for ‘Just’ Climate and Energy Transition

Its plan will benefit from grants of €1.38bn from the EU’s Just Transition Fund Programme.

South Africa

South Africa: Opportunities to Expand the Renewable Energy Market Do Exist

While the revival of the REIPPP programme in 2021 holds great promise to expand South Africa’s large-scale renewable energy market, grid constraints in the cou…