Efficiency

Energy-Eficient Building

E.ON to Reduce Buildings’ Energy Consumption by 20% As Winter Approaches

German electric utility company E.ON has announced efforts to reduce its energy consumption, which are expected to reduce energy use from its buildings by at le…

Net Zero Emission

Saudi Aramco Unveils $1.5BN Sustainability Fund

It will initially focus on sectors such as carbon capture and storage, hydrogen, greenhouse gas emissions and energy efficiency.

Solar Power Panel

More Space Between Solar Panels Can Increase Efficiency – Study

Latest analysis from the US National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has shown that spacing solar panels further apart can increase efficiency and improve ec…

Solar Cell

Nanotech Breakthrough Sets World Record for Solar Cell Efficiency

In a new Nature Nanotechnology paper, scientists say they’ve cleared 31% efficiency in solar cells.

Smart City

Holographic Digital Twin Aids Infrastructure Planning in Florida

New holographic digital twin technology has been announced for three counties in the state of Florida to better enable utility infrastructure planning and decis…

Smart Grid

Digitalising Europe’s Energy Sector – The Strategy

The European Commission has released its action plan for digitalising the region’s energy sector to improve efficiency and renewables integration.

Will Bioenergy Ever Be Competitive?

New research found that miscanthus and sorghum – both C4 plant species – occupy a distinct niche of the leaf economics spectrum (LES), with greater photosynth…

Energy Saving

Nights in and Packed Lunches - Britons Seek Savings to Cover Energy Bills

Britons are spending more nights in, taking packed lunches to work and eschewing new clothes and treats to ensure they can cover rising energy bills this autumn…

Australia

ARENA and Shell Energy to Demonstrate Commercial Flexibility in Australia

Shell Energy’s ‘Commercialising Smart Energy Hubs’ project will recruit at least 40 commercial and industrial (C&I) customer sites to demonstrate flexible de…

Iberdrola’s Information Campaign to Spur 11mn Customers to Reduce Energy Use

Through intelligent algorithms, the Spanish utility will produce 90 million communications with personalised advice for an information campaign to help househol…

Energy Saving

Industry Leaders Unite Behind Cogeneration in Letter to EU Commission

COGEN Europe, the European Association for the Promotion of Cogeneration, has presented the European Commission with an open letter calling for cogeneration to …

New Electrode Technology Boosts Efficiency of Power-to-Gas Production

Tokyo-based Toshiba Corporation has developed new technology that helps to improve the efficiency and potentially the commercial viability of Power-to-Gas (P2G)…

Japan

Enhancing the Energy Efficiency of the Internet

A team of researchers from Nagoya University in Japan has devised a potential solution to one of the Internet of Energy’s most pressing issues: energy efficien…

Smart Grid

Iberdrola Taps EIB for €220M Smart Grid Development

The European Investment Bank (EIB) and Iberdrola have agreed to increase the green loan signed in 2021 with a top up of €220 million ($215 million) to strength…

Virtual Energy Management Pilot Coordinates Commercial Energy Use

With the hopes of allowing businesses in the US to optimise how and when their buildings use energy, a utility, a grid modernisation tech developer and a digita…