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Evolve Energy Makes Energy Management Automatic in Texas with New AI-Based Platform

Evolve Energy Sells Wholesale Energy and Enables Consumers to Optimize Energy Use, Decrease Carbon Footprints and Save Money Seamlessly.

Microgrid

After PG&E Blackout, California Homeowners Shift to Solar and Batteries

The Northern California blackouts this month, coming after years of increasingly destructive wildfires, showed millions of people how fragile their power grid c…

FlixBus Plans Hydrogen Fuel Cell Test Fleet Of Electric Buses For Clean Long Distance Travel

FlixBus is to Europe what Greyhound is to America, except that its buses are clean and modern whereas Greyhound’s fleet looks like it it is left over from the …

96% Australians Are Growing Increasingly Concerned about the Rising Energy Costs

As we head into summer, Australians are growing increasingly concerned about rising electricity costs – but our misuse of air conditioners could see us racking…

Distributed energy

European Investment Bank to Stop Financing Fossil Fuel Projects

The European Investment Bank (EIB) will end financing for fossil fuel energy projects from the end of 2021 in a move to aligning all its financing activities wi…

Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Israel Launches Energy Efficiency Plan in Factories And Municipalities

Israel has launched a plan to streamline energy consumption and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the Ministries of Economy, Energy and Environmental Protection …

World's Largest Green-hydrogen Plant Begins Operation in Austria

The 6MW facility in Linz, running Siemens electrolysers, will provide clean H2 for steel production.

Geothermal Energy for Heating Supply to help Fight Smog in Pyrzyce, Poland

Several groups, supported by the government of Poland sign agreement for the development of a roadmap for the utilisation of geothermal energy for heating in th…

Draft Tasmanian Renewable Hydrogen Action Plan Open for Public Comment

A new analysis by Hydro Tasmania has shown the state is in a unique position to lead Australia in the production of green hydrogen from clean energy sources.

Coal-Fired Power Plants

South Korea to Close 6 Older Coal-Fired Power Plants by 2021, from Planned 2022

South Korea’s six older coal-fired power plants will be retired by 2021, a year earlier than previously planned, as part of the country’s ongoing efforts to c…

Power Construction

Could the Nation’s Fridges Rebalance the UK Grid?

A new deal between the UK’s National Grid and Asda will see the supermarket giant provide around 13MW of ‘virtual battery power’ from its air-conditioning an…

Results of Research Project Highlight Available Geothermal Potential in Frankonia, Germany

Results of an extensive 2D seismic campaign in the region of Frankonia in Bavaria/ Germany show a promising potential for geothermal energy utilisation.

Market Analysis

Papua New Guinea Emerges as a World-Leading Market for Mobile Pay-Go Solar

Papua New Guineans are embracing mobile pay-go, aka PAYG, solar, which is proving to be a potent, if small-scale, agent of change in terms of improving energy a…

"Ice battery" at Retreat Lowers Energy Costs

"He told me about a 3 megawatt ice storage system they had outside, an ice battery, that he thought didn't work," said Casella.

Nuclear Power Plant

Chinese Nuclear Heating Project Starts Up

China's first commercial nuclear heating project has begun operating at the Haiyang nuclear power plant in Shandong province. The plant's two AP1000 units will …