Technology

Electric Vehicle Charging

Tesla and Partners Install Europe’s Most Powerful EV Chargers in Oxford

As calls to speed up the electrification of the transport system intensifies to meet carbon emissions reduction goals, there is a need for more collaboration be…

Coal-Fired Power Plants

G7 Countries Agree to Stop International Funding for Coal-Fired Power

Coal is considered unabated when it is burned for power or heat without using technology to capture the resulting emissions, a system not yet widely used in pow…

Energy Storage Technology

Ammonia Is Promising for Energy Storage

Ammonia is a promising energy carrier for long-term and large-scale energy storage due to its high hydrogen content, high energy density, facile storage/transpo…

Power Cable

UK Project Explores Increasing Array Cable Voltage

OWA’s Hi-VAS project aims to understand costs, benefits and technology challenges

Nuclear Technology

Tech Deployment Delays Put Heat on Asia's Nuclear Momentum

China seeks to raise total nuclear capacity to 58GW by 2020, but whether this target will be hit or not relies on the pace of equipment upgrades and capacity ov…

Nuclear Technology

Sellafield Employs Digital Imaging to Monitor Stored Nuclear Material

Scientists at the National Physical Laboratory have deployed their High Accuracy Inspection System to Sellafield Ltd to carry out regular routine inspections of…

Nuclear Power Plant

Petrozavodskmash Atarted Manufacturing Pump Sets for Xudapu NPS

First spherical blanks have been through the incoming inspection by ultrasonic testing.

Energy Storage Battery

Harvard team develops long-life Li-metal solid-state battery

A team at Harvard has a developed a design for a solid-state battery that uses a hierarchy of interface stabilities, to achieve an ultrahigh current density wit…

Power Construction

Iberdrola and 50Hertz Agree on Construction of Baltic Sea Offshore Substation

Iberdrola and 50Hertz have signed an agreement to cooperate with regard to the construction, installation and commissioning of an offshore substation for Baltic…

Nuclear Technology

Electrochemical Cell Leverages Next-Generation Nuclear Heat

An electrochemical cell that converts gaseous carbon dioxide into valuable compounds could take advantage of high-temperature technologies including next-genera…

Solar Power Plant

Maxeon Releases Line of Flexible Silicon-Based Solar Panels

Maxeon Solar Technologies will release a new line of glass-less, flexible silicon-based solar panels this summer called Maxeon Air.

Net Zero Emission

IEA Report is a ‘Rallying Cry for Governments’

IEA has released its much anticipated 2050 net zero emissions roadmap for the global energy sector, calling for the immediate and massive deployment of all avai…

Smart Grid

National Grid Electricity Transmission Applies Smart Wires Technology

NGET is using innovative and transformational technology to unlock 1.5GW of network capacity – enough renewable energy to power 1 million homes and supporting …

Wind Turbine Blade

New Coalition to Commercialise Solution for Wind Turbine Blade Recycling

A coalition of industry and academic leaders has developed a new technology to enable circularity for thermoset composites, the material used to make wind turbi…

LNG

Samsung Heavy Industries Completes LNG Pilot Test Facility

Samsung Heavy Industries has started to pursue a "super-gap strategy" in LNG technology by completing an integrated LNG pilot test facility.