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Solar Power Panel

Dutch Startup Kicks Off Sales of World First Solar Electric Car, Worth $265,000

A Dutch company is starting deliveries of the world’s first production-ready solar car to customers later this year, promising months of charge-less driving in…

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-Eficient Building

Smart Buildings on the Frontline in the Battle Against Climate Change

This is how a mind-bogglingly large greenhouse gas (GHG) contributor may get lost in the periphery – buildings.

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…

Wind Farm

Octopus Energy Got Attracted to German Winds

The British energy supplier has invested in a 35MW onshore wind farm in Hessen, near Frankfurt

Energy Storage Battery

Gravity Storage: The Obvious Missing Component in Battery Tech

Gravity storage is a tech that has already produced trains and trucks capable of traveling huge distances and carrying heavy loads without needing any energy in…

Electric Vehicle Battery

The World Is Scrambling for Lithium Supply

As a crucial component in EV batteries, lithium prices have skyrocketed.

Net Zero Emission

Google and Unilever Among Firms Testing New Framework for Carbon Credit Claims

A provisional code of practice that aims to "bring integrity to corporate claims made about voluntary use of carbon credits" is to be road-tested by a host of l…

Nuclear Power Plant

Germany Remains Firmly Anti-nuclear Despite Energy Crisis

Germany’s government has no intention of changing its policies on nuclear energy even as worry about a halt to Russian gas supplies intensifies among politicia…

Coal-Fired Power Plants

Australia’s AGL Coal Plant Outage Extended to September

AGL Energy said on Friday it expects a unit down since April at one of its power stations will restart in late September.

Electricity Transmission

Australian State to Invest $850 Mln in Power Grid

Australia's New South Wales state on Friday said it would invest A$1.2 billion in new transmission lines over 10 years.

Hydrogen Production

UK Approves Second Waste Plastic to Hydrogen Plant

The 13,500 tonne West Dunbartonshire facility will use Powerhouse Energy's technology to create sustainable hydrogen from non-recyclable plastics.

Wind Turbine

Vestas Wins Wind Turbine Contracts in Italy and Germany

ERG's order for 24 V136-4.2 MW wind turbines follows a contract for 64 V235-15.0 MW wind turbines for EnBW’s 900 MW He Dreiht offshore wind projectIt's been a …

Distributed Grid

Next-Generation Energy Technologies for Us Utilities

Four emerging technologies and issues are occupying regulators as utilities seek to modernise the electricity distribution system in the US.

Net Zero Emission

The UK Must Provide More Certainty to Investors as It Pushes Forward With Decarbonisation and Energy Security

New research from Cornwall Insight and law firm Womble Bond Dickinson has laid out what the UK government must do to achieve an affordable, sustainable and secu…