Statoil latest major to shun ‘oil’ in favour of new Equinor identity
Statoil has announced it is to rebrand itself as Equinor as the Norwegian energy giant looks to ditch connotations with fossil fuels.
How Could You Benefit From Embracing Solar Power?
There is a growing demand for renewable energy sources as the results of global warming become more evident year on year. While you may struggle to fit a wind farm or tidal hydroelectrical system on your property – rooftop solar energy is available, affordable and on the rise.
At this rate, it’s going to take nearly 400 years to transform the energy system
Here are the real reasons we’re not building clean energy anywhere near fast enough. Fifteen years ago, Ken Caldeira, a senior scientist at the Carnegie Institution, calculated that the world would need to add about a nuclear power plant’s worth of clean-energy capacity every day between 2000 and 2050 to avoid catastrophic climate change. Recently,
BP’s Energy Outlook must be wrong, or else
BP released the 2018 edition of its annual Energy Outlook yesterday, prompting all the usual gags from the renewables lobby.
PowerBanx Home Battery Settings
How to see and change settings on your Solar inverter battery system.
Shadow chancellor rebukes government for ‘destruction’ of UK solar industry
Shadow chancellor John McDonnell has strongly rebuked the government for its treatment of the domestic solar industry.
Australia’s first big grid-connected solar-storage plant pioneers ‘islanding’
The first large-scale solar and battery storage project to be connected to the grid in Australia has started providing power to 3,000 homes and businesses in Far North Queensland (FNQ) while forming a test case for deliberate ‘islanding’.
Nissan Leaf: the electric vehicle to grid tech that can power your home
The new model Nissan Leaf will be the first electric vehicle in Australia that can send power back to a home battery using vehicle to grid technology.
Blockchain in action: stabilising the grid in Germany and the Netherlands
Case study: Blockchain technology is being put to the test in northern Europe, writes Jean-Baptiste Cornefert of Sonnen.
Samsung is going to recycle old smartphone batteries to power electric vehicles
Battery supplier Samsung SDI has announced it will recycle cobalt from used smartphone batteries as a way to secure supplies of the metal.