The UK government must be placed on a “war footing” to tackle the various threats posed by climate change, a new commission has said. UK-based think-tank the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) has today unveiled a new Environmental Justice Commission which is to seek a plan to deliver a faster transition to a green
With continued global growth of electric vehicles (EV), a new opportunity for the power sector is emerging: stationary storage powered by used EV batteries, which could exceed 200 gigawatt-hours by 2030. During the next few decades, the strong uptake of electric vehicles (EVs) will result in the availability of terawatt-hours of batteries that no longer
RWE has shelved plans for a new coal-fired power station in Germany, announcing that new coal-fired units “no longer have a place” in its strategy. The energy giant had been due to replace existing coal-fired units at the Niederaussem power plant near the city of Bergheim with a lignite power station. But after market conditions
Climate change is picking up pace in Europe, thrusting farmers and power generators onto the front lines of a battle with nature that threatens to upend the lives of the half billion people who occupy the world’s biggest trading bloc. Last year was the third hottest on record and underlines “the clear warming trend” experienced
European solar installations hit a five-year high in 2018, and the annual market should crack 20 gigawatts by 2021, according to the latest research from Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables. Europe's solar market is undergoing a resurgence. More than 10 gigawatts were installed in 2018 for the first time in five years, and the market
Dive Brief: EVgo said April 11 it has completed or has in construction 14 battery storage systems at 11 fast charging stations. The company calls it the largest deployment of battery storage systems at public fast charging stations in the nation. The storage systems will help overcome some of challenges inhibiting fast charging deployment, including
Cleaning solar panels - before and after.
Establishing a level playing field for low carbon technologies must be a priority for government if the power sector is to realise the full benefits of the energy transition, Energy UK has said. The trade association this week published its Future of Energy report, a series of forward-looking studies of numerous elements of the energy
New findings from the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Clean Energy Group (CEG) that when the value of resilience is taken into account — preventing power outages — several more integrated solar-plus-storage projects are economically viable. The findings, presented in a new paper, use detailed modeling of several different building