It’s official: The big hydrogen techlash is now history. For decades, there was an undeniable and growing animus towards anything hydrogen by the investing universe, with the technology relegated to niche corners […]
The Methane Math for Gas Tankless Water Heaters
Once promoted as a more energy efficient option for providing hot water in homes and businesses than conventional tank-type water heaters, gas tankless water heaters may not be that much better for […]
California’s Electric Vehicle Dream Has A Major Problem
California’s Governor Gavin Newsom last week announced that the sale of new cars with internal combustion engines would be banned from 2035 in the state administration’s latest effort to reduce its carbon […]
How Tracker Technology Is Expanding the Footprint for Solar
As solar costs continue to decline, unique use cases for trackers will likely gain in popularity, according to a new Wood Mackenzie report on the tracker market. Half of the new tracker products released […]
From the Lab: The Energy Transition Needs Perovskite PV and Alternative Storage
Adam Duran is program manager at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and co-director of the Shell GameChanger Accelerator powered by NREL. *** The energy sector is making progress toward low- or zero-carbon generation. […]
Hydrogen-powered passenger plane completes maiden flight
A hydrogen fuel-cell plane that’s capable of carrying passengers completed its maiden flight this week, in another step forward for low and zero-emission flight. Source: Hydrogen-powered passenger plane completes maiden flight
Power-to-hydrogen for multi-energy systems – pv magazine International – pv magazine International
Scientists in Switzerland say power-to-hydrogen is particularly promising for coupling electricity and heating and offsetting seasonal variation in renewables generation in sector-coupled energy networks. Their analysis indicated the technology may be especially […]
Two key numbers that make battery storage better bet than gas peakers
In the US, even with cheap gas, most major utilities are deciding that battery storage is a better bet to meet peak demand problems that gas generators. In Australia, many utilities are […]
How good is gas? Well, in the US, the shale sector is a financial disaster
This is the bet the Australian Government wants to play. Federal Energy Minister Angus Taylor stated on the ABC, 7:30 Report that industry policy was in part about “making bets”. We won’t get […]
World’s most powerful turbine to anchor largest offshore wind farm
Plans to build the world’s largest offshore wind farm using the world’s most powerful turbines have been taken up a notch after GE announced its newly upgraded 13MW Haliade-X units would be […]