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Switzerland Secures 250-MW GE Gas Power Temporary Power Plant For Crucial Winter Reserve

October 6, 2022 admin aeroderivative gas turbine, Business, dual fuel, energy security, europe energy crisis, Fuel, full coverage, Gas, gas turbine, ge gas power, Hydro, hydropower technology, International, news, Switzerland, Technology, tm2500, Ukraine

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2022 14:43:36 +0000

The Swiss Federal Office of Energy (SFOE) will install 250 MW of temporary reserve power—via eight trailer-mounted GE Gas Power TM2500 mobile aeroderivative gas turbine units—to secure critical power supplies this winter. GE Gas Power said the units, which will be located at GE’s Manufacturing Center in Birr, in the Swiss canton of Aargau, near […]

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14 Years In The Making, 20 GWh Pumped Hydro Storage Facility Comes To Switzerland (With Video)

August 8, 2022 admin clean power, hydroelectric, pumped hydro, Switzerland

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2022 21:50:25 +0000

One of the largest pumped hydro facilities in the world is about to go online in Switzerland near the border with France.

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Sustainable Aviation Fuel From Solar Energy: Not A Dream Any More

July 20, 2022 admin Aviation, clean power, clean transport, concentrating solar power, e-kerosene, electrofuels, Energy, eth zurich, Europe, green kerosene, hydrogen, renewable energy, Solar energy, solar fuel, solar fuels, sustainable aviation fuel, Switzerland

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2022 15:40:48 +0000

This “solar tower” deploys solar energy to convert water and carbon dioxide to produce non-fossil kerosene for sustainable jet fuel.

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Tesla Is The Most Purchased New Car In Switzerland

June 12, 2022 admin cars, clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, elon musk, market research, research, Switzerland, tesla, tesla switzerland

Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2022 17:00:18 +0000

The most purchased new car in Switzerland is a Tesla, according to a report by RebelinkPress, which cited Reuters, and a report presented by the Association of Automobile Importers, Auto-Suisse. According to the report, the market for new cars in both Switzerland and Liechtenstein ended 2021 with a 0.7% increase compared with 2020. “Due to […]

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15 European Countries Have 15%+ Plugin Vehicle Sales (New Car Sales)

April 25, 2022 admin Austria, Belgium, cars, clean transport, cleantechnica, cleantechnica exclusive, cleantechnica reports, Denmark, electric cars, Electric vehicles, Europe, europe ev sales, ev adoption, ev adoption curve, ev sales, Finland, France, GERMANY, hybrid electric cars, ICELAND, Ireland, luxembourg, market research, netherlands, Norway, phev, Portugal, research, Sweden, Switzerland, uk

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2022 11:10:09 +0000

There are now 15 European countries that have 15% or more of new-car buyers buying plugin electric cars (full electric cars or plugin hybrids). There are 12 European countries that have 10% or more of new-car buyers buying full electric vehicles (BEVs). China also passed those milestones in 2021 (15% plugin vehicle share and 12% […]

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Finding Climate Change Needles In Climate Haystacks Using Machine Learning

January 29, 2020 admin Artificial Intelligence, climate change, machine learning, research, SCIENCE, Switzerland, United States, Weather

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2020 22:00:37 +0000

Machine learning can find patterns that are much more difficult to predict or analyze, and find predictive value in massive data sets when humans can’t discern them. But human’s have neural nets too, goopy ones between our ears, and the practice of hypothesis-test-assess continues to yield value without any intelligence of the artificial sort

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Plug-In Vehicles = 5.7% of Portugal’s Auto Sales

January 19, 2020 admin Audi, audi e-tron, BMW, bmw 225xe, bmw 330e, bmw 530e, bmw i3, cars, clean transport, cleantechnica, cleantechnica exclusive, cleantechnica reports, consumer technology, daimler, electric cars, Electric vehicles, ev sales, ford, ford explorer phev, hybrid electric cars, Hyundai, hyundai ioniq ev, hyundai kona ev, jaguar, jaguar i-pace, market research, mercedes c300e/de, mercedes e300e/de, mini, mini countryman phev, Mitsubishi, mitsubishi outlander phev, Nissan, nissan leaf, phev, porsche, porsche cayenne phev, range rover sport phev, renault, renault zoe, research, smart fortwo ev, Switzerland, switzerland ev sales, tesla, tesla model 3, tesla model s, tesla model x, tesla sales, Volkswagen, volkswagen e-golf, volvo, volvo s/v60 phev, volvo xc60 phev, volvo xc90 phev

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2020 23:51:10 +0000

The Netherlands got most of the press from EV fans in recent weeks and months thanks to a stunning 54% plug-in vehicle (PEV) market share at the end of 2019 and the Tesla Model 3 bagging approximately twice as many 2019 sales as the #2 Volkswagen Polo

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Plug-In Vehicles = 5.5% of Switzerland’s Auto Sales

January 19, 2020 admin Audi, audi e-tron, BMW, bmw 225xe, bmw i3, cars, clean transport, cleantechnica, cleantechnica exclusive, cleantechnica reports, consumer technology, daimler, electric cars, Electric vehicles, ev sales, ford, ford explorer phev, hybrid electric cars, Hyundai, hyundai ioniq ev, hyundai kona ev, jaguar, jaguar i-pace, market research, mini, mini countryman phev, Mitsubishi, mitsubishi outlander phev, Nissan, nissan leaf, phev, porsche, porsche cayenne phev, renault, renault zoe, research, smart fortwo ev, Switzerland, switzerland ev sales, tesla, tesla model 3, tesla model s, tesla model x, tesla sales, Volkswagen, volkswagen e-golf, volvo, volvo s/v60 phev, volvo xc60 phev, volvo xc90 phev

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2020 19:12:01 +0000

Far and away, the Swiss plug-in vehicle (PEV) leader was the Model 3, which had 29% of PEV market share. That means it had ~1.6% of the overall auto market in Switzerland all by itself, and it put the Model 3 at #4 in the overall auto market in the country, only trailing the Skoda Octavia, Volkswagen Tiguan, and Volkswagen Golf

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A Decade of Turmoil: How Nuclear and Coal Have Struggled to Survive

January 2, 2020 admin Business, capacity factor, climate change, Coal, cop, decommission, economics, EIA, Environmental, EPA, France, GERMANY, International, Japan, Legal & Regulatory, Market, Markets, news, Nuclear, O&M, Paris Agreement, retire, Small Modular Reactor, smr, Switzerland, u.s.

Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2020 05:05:45 +0000

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The past 10 years have been filled with trials and tribulations for both the nuclear and coal power industries. From accidents to plant closures there has been little to cheer about. Still, nuclear and coal power continue to provide reliable baseload generation to billions of customers around the globe. Here’s a look back at the […]

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Switzerland Closes One of World’s Oldest Nuclear Plants

December 23, 2019 admin Business, GERMANY, International, muehleberg nuclear power plant, news, Nuclear, Renewables, Switzerland

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2019 18:00:08 +0000

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Switzerland on Dec. 20 shut down one of the world’s oldest nuclear power plants, as part of its plan to shutter all its reactors by 2050. Muehleberg Nuclear Power Plant, the smallest of the country’s four remaining plants, began operating in 1972. The 355-MW facility operated by Bernische Kraftwerke AG (BKW) and majority-owned by the […]

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