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Energy Storage Battery

New Energy-Dense Lithium-Sulfur Battery Works at Extreme Temperatures

As part of their research into next-generation battery technology, scientists at University of California, San Diego are exploring designs that can function at …

Hydrogen Technology

CSIRO Launches Virtual Hydrogen Knowledge Centre

An online centre consolidating Australian hydrogen research and industry activities has been launched by CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, aimed at s…

Singapore

NUS’ New Hydrogen Research Institute Starts Operation

The Centre for Hydrogen Innovations has received S$25m investment.

Some European Gigafactory Projects ‘Revising Plans’

Some anticipated lithium-ion battery gigafactory projects in Europe are quietly revising their plans and may not open at all, according to the head of energy st…

Smart Grid

Global Community Smart Grid Collaboration Kicks Off

The International Community for Local Smart Grids research initiative is aimed to champion the relationship between communities and smart grids.

Geothermal Power Plant

First Underground Laboratory Set Up for Research on Deep Geothermal Energy

Locally available, emission-free and baseload-capable: geothermal energy is an essential component of the energy transition.

Solar Technology

Bright Future for Australian Solar Research With $45M Funding Boost

The funding will extend operations of the Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics in conducting solar research to 2030

Solar Power Panel

$45 Million for Solar PV Research

The Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics (ACAP) is set to receive up to $45 million in funding from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) for t…

Australia

Australian PV Researchers Get $31.1M Gov’t Funding

This will enable them to extend their solar research activities to 2030.

Geothermal Power Plant

Underground Geothermal Research Facility to Be Put Up in Germany

A partnership led by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology will be putting up the GeoLaB, an underground research facility that seeks to understand fundamental …

Nuclear Reactor

First Plasma Propels Zap Energy’s Plans for Garage-Sized Fusion Reactors

Nuclear fusion is an incredibly complex scientific problem that researchers are coming at from all sorts of angles, and Zap Energy is starting to make waves thr…

India

New Report Shows That India Will Require $223 Billion to Meet RE Goals

​India will require $223 billion of investment in order to meet its goal of wind and solar capacity installations by 2030, according to a new report by researc…

Sandia Researchers Test Explosives for the Expansion of Geothermal Energy

Geothermal energy has a lot of promise as a renewable energy source that is not dependent on the sun shining or the wind blowing, but it has some challenges to …

Solar Power Panel

New Thermophotovoltaic Cells Turn Heat Into Electricity More Efficiently Than a Steam Turbine

Jennifer Chu at MIT describes new research, in collaboration with NREL, that has led to a prototype solid-state heat engine that can operate at up to 2,400 deg…

United Kingdom

EDF Renewables Progresses With Two UK Solar Projects

Two consented projects that EDF Renewables UK added to its solar portfolio in March 2021 have progressed to the site preparation and construction stage.