renewable-energy

When John Kurz left Alaska’s North Slope in 2009, he was staring at a grim future for what had once been the country’s premiere oil field. Crude production had plummeted to 567,000 barrels per day, barely more than a quarter of the roughly 2 million barrels pumped daily at the field’s peak two decades earlier. The decline stoked concerns that the Trans Alaska Pipeline System, built to carry the s…

Birmingham researchers have developed a new method for producing hydrogen fuel that costs less than existing approaches. Hydrogen has long been hailed as a key fuel for a low-carbon future, capable of powering everything from heavy industry to transportation without producing carbon emissions at the point of use. Yet there is a major contradiction at [...]

Deep beneath some of the oldest rocks on Earth, scientists have discovered a surprising source of clean energy slowly building up underground: natural hydrogen gas. Researchers from University of Toronto and University of Ottawa have, for the first time, directly measured hydrogen escaping from ancient rocks in the Canadian Shield, a massive geologic region that […] The post Hidden “White Hydroge…

The Port of Long Beach aims to become an assembly hub for floating offshore wind turbines, while the state awaits a more favorable federal administration for their deployment.

Department for Transport is understood to back reducing levy, which critics have called a ‘pavement tax’ Business live – latest updates Government officials considered cutting the VAT charged on electricity used at public EV chargers from 20% to 5% at the last budget, but the Treasury under chancellor Rachel Reeves rejected the proposal amid disagreement between departments. Officials in the Depa…

SolarSquare could be valued at up to $500 million in the financing expected to close next month.

Abstract Solar energy has emerged as a leading player in current scenarios promoting the decarbonization of energy matrices. Among the methods of harnessing this energy potential, concentrating collectors stand out as the most well-established technology, with the parabolic trough collector (PTC) dominating the market. Among the research efforts aimed at enhancing the heat transfer of PTCs, the d…

They blew up a van full of banknotes. They sold high-end Ukrainian vodka to Selfridges. Now art duo Hilary Powell and Dan Edelstyn are auctioning their past works – to launch their most ambitious project to date This Saturday, artists Hilary Powell and Dan Edelstyn are auctioning off their work from the past decade and a half. The reason? To help fund a community-led renewable power station in Ni…

A closer look at the natural processes that produce hydrogen provides promise of a clean energy source.

Figure: Yearly interprovincial and interregional transmission for ECG, 2022. China’s East China Grid (ECG)—covering Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, and Fujian—sits at the center of one of the country’s most economically important and electricity-intensive regions. As demand continues to grow, renewable penetration increases, and extreme weather risks become more frequent, policymakers face a …

If hydrogen becomes widely available to fuel the world's transportation networks and power grids, it...

This research investigates the improvement of photovoltaic (PV) solar panel efficiency using a low-cost water cooling system. High operating temperatures significantly reduce the electrical performance of solar panels, especially in hot climate regions such as Saudi Arabia. The proposed cooling system circulates water behind the photovoltaic panel to decrease thermal accumulation and enhance ener…

This is the report on an exercise conducted as part of the Osemosys training program

<div class="section abstract"> <div class="htmlview paragraph">Solar seasonal thermal energy storage technology is an important means to solve the problem of seasonal uneven distribution of solar resources, and as the core component, the thermal storage capacity of the water pit directly affects the performance of the whole system. Accurately mastering the water pit temperature is ess…