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Energy Taxation

Fuel Tax Exemptions Make No Sense – For the Climate or the Economy

Petrol and Diesel pumps at a service station in Sydney. (AAP Image/James Gourley)Revising the generous fuel tax credits given to businesses should be a priority…

Energy Storage Technology

The Novel Chemistry Behind Ultra-High Power Density Batteries

Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering Mohammad Asadi. Credit: Illinois Institute of TechnologyMohammad Asadi, assistant professor of chemical engineering …

EV Market

America Has Come a Long Way From an Early Electric Car Casualty

Chelsea Sexton at Fully Charged LIVE, Austin, TX, Feb ,1 2020. Credit: BenjaminNelson via YouTubeTwenty-two years ago, Chelsea Sexton was laid off from one of h…

Germany

German E.ON to Invest EUR 210 Million in Power Business in Romania

E.ON earmarked EUR 375 million for capital expenditure by 2023 in Romania, of which EUR 210 million is for the electric power division. It is also developing en…

Nuclear Technology

Can New Cheap, Frequent “Laser” Monitoring of Critical Components Extend Nuclear Plant Lifetimes by Decades?

A new way to assess radiation damage in reactors. Engineers designed a tool that enables faster measurements of the condition of some nuclear reactor components…

Solar Technology

New Rules, Incentives Shaping Solar-Plus-Storage Market

An evolving regulatory environment, expanded tax credits, and moves for more reliability and resilience in the power space are impacting the growth of solar-plu…

Pumped Storage

Jinzhai Pumped Storage Hydro Plant Connects All Units to the Grid

Image credit: GE Renewable EnergyAll four units of the 1.2GW Jinzhai pumped storage hydro plant have been connected to the grid and completed 15 days of trial o…

Coal Production

Ramaphosa: South Africa Will Not Ditch Coal ‘Just Like That'

Coal-rich but energy-starved South Africa will not immediately abandon its fossil-fuelled electricity generating plants as it transitions to cleaner forms of po…

Biofuel

Biorefinery Uses Microbial Fuel Cell to Upcycle Resistant Plant Waste

Graphical abstract. Credit: ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering (2022). DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.2c03667When nature designed lignin—the fibrous, woody ma…

Energy Technology

A Way to Produce Hydrogen Directly From Untreated Sea Water

Schematic diagram of three-electrode configuration for seawater electrolysis. Note that the pH meter was placed 1.0 cm from the electrode surface to measure the…

Solar Cell

New Type of Solar Cell Is Being Tested in Space

Nanowires in three materials imaged by a scanning electron microscope. A thread is a thousand times thinner than a strand of hair. The red and blue colour shows…

Thermal Plant

Duke Energy’s N.C. Coal Plants More Expensive to Run Than Building New Solar Farms, Report Finds

The Allen coal plant just west of Charlotte, North Carolina. Credit: Murr Rhame / Creative CommonsBy Elizabeth Ouzts, Energy News NetworkDuke Energy spends twic…

Hydrogen Technology

Enapter to Supply Electrolysers for South Korean Hydrogen Pilot

Green Hydrogen Pilot Model, credit: EnapterEnergy technology firm Enapter, together with partner YEST, will deliver two AEM electrolysers with a total capacity …

Net Zero Emission

World Utilities Congress

WORLD UTILITIES CONGRESSTaking place in Abu Dhabi from the 8th-10th May, the second edition of the World Utilities Congress, hosted by TAQA will be uniquely sit…

Energy Storage Battery

Scientists Illuminate Barrier to Next-Generation Battery That Charges Very Quickly

This artist’s rendition shows one probe bending from applied pressure, causing a fracture in the solid electrolyte, which is filling with lithium. On the …