Prometheus Institute

What’s the problem with nuclear energy? At a time when lawmakers are scratching their heads over how to decarbonize national energy systems, nuclear is a technology that is low-carbon, mature and, despite the […]

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has rejected the latest proposal from New York’s grid operator to allow renewable energy and batteries to compete against fossil fuels in its wholesale capacity market. That may […]

The United Arab Emirates have just become the first Arab nation to operate a nuclear plant as its 5.6GW Barakah nuclear plant achieved criticality on its Unit 1 in the first week […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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: […]

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. […]