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PowerGrid Technology

​Low-Cost Monitoring Breakthrough Could Pay Off for DNOs

Western Power Distribution (WPD) and 42 Technology announced the successful completion of the first UK field trials for FuseOhm, a breakthrough in low-cost moni…

Energy Storage Material

​Beyond Lithium: Alternative Materials for the Battery Boom

While lithium has long been touted as the future of advanced batteries, the technology’s limitations and accidents at lithium facilities have encouraged manufa…

Wind Power Project

World's First Mono-Buckets Head for Wind Plant off Germany

The pair of next-generation mono-bucket foundations being deployed at Northland Power’s Deutsche Bucht wind farm off Germany are en route from steel fabricator…

EDC Increases Revenues with Better Performance of Geothermal Plants

EDC reports geothermal revenues of $514m for first three quarters of 2019 contributing around 34% of total revenues of its mother company First Gen. Better perf…

Coal Power

Trump Energy Pick to Face Questions on Coal, Nuclear Power

President Donald Trump’s pick to run the Energy Department, Dan Brouillette, will face questions at his U.S. Senate confirmation hearing on Thursday on issues …

Hydrogen Fuel Technology Could Help Combat Dangerous India Air Pollution Levels

The Indian government wants to use hydrogen to help alleviate the crisis.

South Korea has Big Plans to Create Hydrogen Cities

The East Asian nation has big plans to build three hydrogen cities by 2022. South Korea is working hard to be seen as a world leader in green technology and is …

Study Proposes Agenda for US Decarbonisation

Achieving net-zero emissions in the USA by 2050 will require action across society, a new report from the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES) has con…

Nuclear Power Plant

One Nuclear Power Project Delayed; Three Leap Forward

The long-overdue Olkiluoto 3 nuclear power plant (NPP) in Finland has been delayed again, but nuclear projects in Russia, Canada, and Iran achieved important mi…

Microgrid

Bushfires Should Make us Think About Energy Resilience and Microgrids

The largest known cause of Australian bushfires is accidents caused by humans. Second is — unfortunately, inexplicably — arson. Lightning strikes come a dista…

Market Analysis

Study Finds Climate Impact of Hydropower Varies Widely

A new study by a team at Environmental Defense Fund finds that the climate impact of hydropower facilities varies widely throughout the world and over time, wit…

Storing Energy in Hydrogen 20 Times More Effective Using Platinum-Nickel Catalyst

Catalysts accelerate chemical reactions, but the widely used metal platinum is scarce and expensive.

Microgrid

Sunverge Distributed Energy Resource Control and Aggregation Platform

Sunverge distributed energy resource control and aggregation platform supports LG’s home energy storage solution.

EV Market

Volkswagen Breaks Ground on $800M Expansion for MEB-based EV Production in US

This is a big, big moment for this company. Expanding local production sets the foundation for our sustainable growth in the US. Electric vehicles are the futur…

Crude

China Oct Refinery Output Rises 9.2% from Year Ago to Second-Highest Ever

China’s crude oil throughput in October rose 9.2% from a year earlier to the second-highest on record, as refineries in the world’s second-biggest oil consume…