Environmental
#348 Modelling Distributed Energy Storage
In Europe, and around the world, renewable electricity generation is being built at pace. However, these sources of energy create a new challenge: they are
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#271 Pumped Storage: Australia tackles Intermittency
On the receiving end of among of the worst natural disasters in modern history, while being blessed with some of the most abundant natural resource
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#235 Ffestiniog: 60 Years of Pioneering Storage
Hidden in the mountainous peaks of Snowdonia’s National Park is a clean source of energy storage that has been supporting the UK’s electricity grid since
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#234 Microreactors: From the Moon, to the ends of the Earth
For more than a century, the UK’s Rolls-Royce have designed power systems for cars and planes, ships and submarines. Today, they are developing a novel
Environmental
#217 Managing the Energy Transition
More and more of the economy is being powered by the grid and that trend will continue over the next few decades. At the same
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UK launches floating offshore wind research programme
The Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult and the Net Zero Technology Centre will research a number of technical hurdles to floating offshore wind expansion, and
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Welsh state enters renewables race
Wales will create a state-owned renewable energy development company. The move followed earlier targets to have more than one gigawatt of locally-owned generation by 2030.
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High energy prices see rapid return on renewables
Capital investment in renewables this year should overtake that in oil and gas, according to a major energy analysis company. High spot energy prices in
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Largest German power company to abandon coal by 2030
The largest power company in Germany has agreed to end coal-based electricity generation by the end of the decade. The agreement signed with the government
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#173 Europe’s First Energy Island
Denmark is embarking on the largest construction project in its history with the assembly of the first energy island in the North Sea. The 120,000sq.m
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#157 Interconnectors: The Green Link to Ireland
Standing on the cliffs of Ireland’s west coast you can feel the reason that Ireland generates more than 35% of its electricity from wind power.
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#150 Green Hydrogen: Creating the System
Green hydrogen, created from renewable energy resources, has been hailed as a panacea to decarbonisation of heat and fluctuation in natural gas prices. But the