Energy

Net Zero Emission

Task Force Launches to Promote Space Applications for Energy

The European Space Agency (ESA), EPRI and other founding members have launched the Task Force for Innovation in Energy Through Space.

Energy Storage Project

Grid Booster: World’s Largest Storage-as-Transmission Project Gets Green Light

Fluence Energy and TransnetBW have announced future deployment of the Grid Booster project, touted as the world’s largest battery-based energy storage-as-trans…

Electric Car

Volvo’s First Bi-Directional EV Brings the Customer to the Grid

The upcoming fully electric Volvo EX90 will be the first Volvo car to be hardware-ready for bi-directional charging capabilities, alleviating the grid of unnece…

Offshore Wind Power

RWE Bids for Offshore Wind Seabed Permit in Poland

Poland is going ahead with its offshore wind build-out programme by starting a competitive process for an offshore wind seabed permit within 53.E1 area in the P…

Oil&Gas Drilling

‘New North Sea Oil and Gas Projects at Odds with UK Climate Goals’

New oil and gas fields cannot alleviate the financial pressure caused by rising energy bills, according to a report

United Kingdom

UK Government Launches £20M Hydrogen Competition

The money will be given to businesses and innovators looking at easier ways to implement hydrogen into the energy mix

Energy Storage System

Wärtsilä Reaching Final Commissioning for Netherland’s Largest Energy Storage System

Wärtsilä is completing the commissioning of its first energy storage project in the Netherlands, which is the country’s largest system to date.

Energy Storage Battery

Equinor Reaches Final Investment Decision for UK Battery Storage Project

Blandford Road is a 25MW project in Dorset and is the first commercial battery storage asset for the Norwegian energy company

Wind Turbine

Danish Company to Build World’s Tallest Onshore Wind Turbine

Vestas, a Danish wind energy firm, announced in September that it would be establishing an onshore wind turbine tower with a hub height measuring 199 meters.

Geothermal Power Plant

Europe Is Betting Big On Geothermal Energy

Europe’s geothermal market is set to receive a major b oost in the coming years.

Nuclear Fusion

DoE Scientists Reveal New Process At Tokamak Fusion Reactor

Department of Energy scientists confirmed a new process that can help protect the interiors of tokamak fusion reactors.

Austria

Austria’s OMV Targets Expansion of Low Carbon Business

Vienna-headquartered energy company OMV says that it will be focusing on geothermal energy as an essential part of its strategy.

Energy Storage Technology

Sustainable Energy Storage Derived From Seaweed

Finding suitable energy storage solutions saves surplus energy from becoming waste and has a positive environmental impact by generating a cleaner, greener ener…

Novel Inexpensive Wind Energy Harvester

Nanyang Technological University researchers (NTU Singapore) have developed a low-cost device that can harness and store wind energy as benign as a light breeze…

Crude Oil

U.S. Sells Oil from Emergency Reserve to Marathon, Equinor, Others

The United States has sold a 10.15 million barrel batch of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to eight companies, the Department of Energy said on Friday.…