Ultrafast charging, the Holy Grail of batteries, has been elusive for years. It is one big reason—perhaps the biggest—why electric cars have not taken off the way they should have and the […]
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Green hydrogen breakthrough uses energy from the sun, water from the air
Australian researchers have found a way to combine solar PV and water harvested from the air to produce low-cost green hydrogen, and are gearing up to put the zero-emissions fuel to the […]
Massive Aussie green hydrogen project moves step closer
Phase one work for the $300 million Arrowsmith Hydrogen Project will be carried out by global energy consultancy Xodus Group, which was selected this week by the project’s developer Infinite Blue Energy. […]
Managers Of $40 Trillion Make Plans To Decarbonize The World
European New Exchange Technology in Amsterdam is the largest stock exchange in Europe, one of the … [+] cogs in a global financial system needing to be harnessed to address global issues […]
As Renewables Surge, Australia Ponders Options for Demand Response Market
Australian energy chiefs have welcomed the release today of two reports setting out options for the country’s future electricity market makeup. A post-2025 market design consultation paper from the Energy Security Board […]
The One Big Problem With Green Hydrogen
From a rarely mentioned, modest member of the renewable energy family to a headline-hogging clickbait, hydrogen has quickly turned from a prop to a star. There is a good reason for it: […]
Brown coal generators must now dance to the tune of rooftop solar
Victoria’s ageing brown coal generators are being forced to learn new tricks in the latter stages of their lives – dancing around the huge changes in grid demand caused by rooftop solar. […]
Energy giant to close biggest coal generator in Germany after just five years
The coal plant Moorburg in Hamburg, with a capacity of 1.6 gigawatt, only started operations in 2015 after years of struggle with local environmental groups. Hall said that the Moorburg plant had […]
Newest coal generators rank amongst Australia’s worst for reliability
Queensland’s newest and most ‘modern’ coal-fired generators have ranked amongst some of Australia’s least reliable, in a new assessment that raises yet more questions around the judgement of the Morrison government, which […]
The Trillion-Dollar Reason Joe Biden Won’t Ban Fracking
Water tanks, sand tanks, and compressors surround a natural gas well during hydraulic fracturing … [+] operations on a Chesapeake Energy Corp. drill site in Bradford County, Pennsylvania, in 2010. Photographer: Daniel […]