Erg

India Moving Towards Hybridised Power Utilities to Achieve Rural Growth

India's state-run power utilities or DISCOMs are badly in debt despite repeated bail-outs, and are failing in their mandate to deliver reliable, quality power t…

Distributed Generation

Better Grid Integration Beats Coal Plant Ramping to Reduce Wind, Solar Curtailment

Wind and solar curtailment is worst where these renewables are poorly integrated into the grid. The further their energy can reach the more regions they can ser…

Grid-Interactive Buildings Solutions

According to U.S. figures, up to 80% of peak electricity demand comes from buildings. So designing them to be energy efficient, with their own generation (e.g. …

Solar Power Panel

Using Thin Films for Solar Panels

To keep up with energy demands, scientists are striving to make solar cells more efficient so that more electricity can be generated from the same amount of sun…

Energy storage technology

Are Nanomaterials Key to Energy Storage?

When it comes to making the switch from using fossil fuels to cleaner renewable energy, one of the difficulties encountered is the storage and distribution of e…

European Parliament Declares Climate Emergency

The European Parliament has today declared an environment and climate emergency, ahead of next week's UN climate talks in Madrid, COP25.

Oil & Gas Trade

The Parties Discussed Russian-Ukrainian Cooperation in the Gas Sector, Russian Energy Ministry Said

"The parties discussed Russian-Ukrainian cooperation in the gas sector — settlement of mutual claims for the implementation of contracts, the terms for the tra…

IRENA Continues to Drive Forward Green Hydrogen Cause

The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) continues to explore the potential of green hydrogen in the future renewable energy mix and its scale up, with…

Oil&Gas Drilling

Russia’s Oil Companies Propose Postponing Extension of OPEC+ Deal Until March

At a meeting at the Ministry of Energy on Thursday, representatives of the Russian oil industry proposed that the current quotas for reducing production within …

Navajo Nation to Convert Methane into Hydrogen for Power

The Navajo Nation announced this week it has signed a contract with renewable energy companies to convert methane vented from its oil producing operations in so…

Power Construction

Germany: TenneT Completes Substation Reboot

State secretary Jens Deutschendorf, from the Hessen Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy joined TenneT Managing Director Tim Meyerjurgens to visit the upgrad…

EU Urged to Raise 2030 Climate Target

Orsted and six other European energy companies have stated their support for a carbon-neutral bloc by 2050 in an open letter to European environment and climate…

EV Market

Ford Goes After Tesla With All-Electric Crossover

Ford is coming for Tesla, announcing an all-electric crossover that's inspired by the Mustang.

Bui Power Authority Completes 45kW Tsatsadu Micro Hydropower Project in Alavanyo-Abehenease

Ghana is set to commission its first micro-hydropower plant to be known as the Tsatsadu Generating Station (TGS) under the Ministry of Energy’s renewable energ…

Tariffs and Tenders Drive Southeast Asia's Renewables Boom

The share of renewables in the region’s power mix could rise from 14.3% to 43% by 2040.