Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2025 12:10:00 +0000
First Hualong One at Zhangzhou No. 1 Mega-Nuclear Plant Powers Up in China. China National Nuclear Corp. (CNNC), on Nov. 28, successfully connected Zhangzhou Nuclear Power Plant No. 1, a 1.1-GW Hualong One
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Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2024 21:20:27 +0000
On October 27th of 2020, the China Society of Automotive Engineers laid out a roadmap for how the country was going to achieve 50% of all cars sold in 2035 being fully electric, plug-in hybrid, or hydrogen, with 95% of them of course being fully electric. Per projections from HSBC, … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: US Department of Energy| Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2024 04:06:10 +0000
Today, the U.S. Department of Energy released its draft Energy Storage Strategy and Roadmap and a Notice of Availability seeking stakeholder input on the draft Strategy and Roadmap. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today released its draft Energy Storage Strategy and Roadmap (SRM), a plan that provides strategic direction and identifies … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Letters to the Editor| Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2024 04:58:06 +0000
Harnessing renewable energy is a crucial step in building sustainable communities, and as climate change accelerates, finding carbon-free energy sources that are affordable, reliable, and can handle changes in policy, extreme weather events, and rising demand is more important than ever. One often-overlooked solution? Our rivers. Small hydroelectric turbines (“Small … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2024 03:02:17 +0000
A year ago I published an assessment of a quite remarkably bad, non-peer-reviewed paper by one of the Geological Survey of Finland’s (GTK) associate professors, Simon Michaux. The paper’s quite risible conclusions were that there wasn’t nearly enough metal in the ground to be able to electrify everything with renewables. … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2024 03:49:59 +0000
The US startup OceanWell is developing undersea “water farms” that leverage water pressure to operate an energy efficient desalination system.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2024 13:58:06 +0000
Pumped hydropower is the basis for 96% of utility-scale energy storage capacity in the US, and it is ripe with potential for expansion.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2024 19:17:17 +0000
A new US energy storage project will adapt the power of pumped storage hydro to subsea locations near offshore wind farms and energy-hungry coastal cities, leveraging 3-D printing and the natural force of water pressure.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2024 17:13:29 +0000
The long-running seminar series for India’s utility professionals through the India Smart Grid Forum closed with hydrogen. The hype glitter is starting to tarnish, but there is still a lot of substance-less shiny noise around the molecule. To that end, I stepped through the challenges and why hydrogen is virtually … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: RMI| Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2024 18:24:08 +0000
States and localities want to raise their chances of attracting clean energy investment. Industry leaders want to find the places best suited for scaling their technologies. The Clean Growth Tool helps with both. The federal Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) has triggered an explosion of clean energy investment in the United … [continued]
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