Ems

Data From Space to Aid Hydropower Planning

Researchers generally have reliable water level measurements for a few thousand lakes around the world, but little or no data on some of the planet’s important…

Solar Power Panel

Surging Temperatures Are Good for Solar Panels, Right? The Answer Is: It’s Complicated

Many would think the scorching heat of the past few days would represent the ultimate sweet spot for solar photovoltaic systems. But it’s more complex than tha…

Energy Storage Battery

Dutch Battery Projects Combat Grid Bottleneck

Grid operator Liander and GIGA Storage, developers of large-scale battery systems, have started pilots in the Dutch cities Amsterdam, Alkmaar and Lelystad with …

United States

Wärtsilä to Deliver Five Solar + Storage Projects in the US

Image credit: 123rf.comTechnology group Wärtsilä is delivering a 500MW/2GWh portfolio of solar energy and storage systems to clean energy developer an…

Energy Storage Project

Wärtsilä Signs Contract for Solar-Plus-Storage Projects

The technology group Wärtsilä is delivering a 500-MWac/2-GWh portfolio of energy storage systems to clean energy developer and operator Clearway Energy Group.…

Net Zero Emission

Time for Nuclear To ‘Stage a Comeback’ To Meet Net Zero Goals – IEA

Nuclear power should play a significant role in helping meet net-zero goals globally, and building clean energy systems will be harder, riskier and more expensi…

IEA: “Building Sustainable Energy Systems Will Be Riskier Without Nuclear”

Nearly 63% of current nuclear power capacity is more than 30 years old, according to a report

Electric Car

How Battery Management Systems Influence Electric Vehicle Performance

In recent years, electric vehicles have improved in performance, dependability, and efficiency. The batteries used in electric vehicles are becoming increasingl…

Floating Solar Project

‘Floatovoltaics’: Are They the Future of Renewable Energy?

Floatovoltaics is a relatively new, but rapidly growing industry. It stems from the desire to decarbonize global economies by 2050 as a solution to tackling cli…

Australia

Western Australia Putting 1,000 PV-Plus-Battery Standalone Power Systems Into Remote and Rural Areas

The government of Western Australia has begun a drive to deploy at least 1,000 renewable energy off-grid power systems aimed at bringing resilient electricity s…

Amazon and Equinor Join Bill Gates to Back Ex-Tesla and First Solar Execs’ ‘Industrial Scale’ Green Hydrogen Tech

US start-up Electric Hydrogen draws stellar list of backers as it looks to deploy 100MW-plus electrolyser systems aimed at decarbonising heavy industry

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 …

Smart Meter

Placing Consumers at the Heart of Smart Metering

Chairperson of the South African Metering Industry Association, stated during that consumers should become more of a priority when utilities develop and install…

Energy Storage Battery

Solid-State Battery Company Ion Storage Systems Raises US$30 Million in Series A

Ion Storage Systems (ION), a company that has developed a solid-state lithium-ion battery technology, has raised a US$30 million Series A to expand its producti…

Nuclear Power Plant

Bechtel Ties up With Toshiba on Poland’s First Nuclear Plant

Bechtel signs MoU with Toshiba America Energy Systems and Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions to build Poland's first nuclear power station.