Energy SystemEnergy System
EESC singles out accessibility of raw materials as a pressing issue. Widespread e-mobility is the next key step towards making sustainable transport possible. Electrification is the only solution for sustainable fuel and this requires batteries. Car batteries account for 40% of the cost of an electric vehicle, but 96% of them are produced outside Europe. The European strategy for batteries must be comprehensive and allow for their entire lifecycle, from creation to deployment and recycling. European businesses can only become a major player in battery development and deployment in the global market by taking a huge leap forward over the next few years. The EESC flagged up the importance of material recycling in its 2019 opinion on batteries, where "urban mining" was promoted as a possible way to build new batteries by recovering elements from used products and waste, such as discarded electric and electronic devices. Back to Mail Online home. To read the full article on this article, click here.
Read Full article
The future of flight – Three energy futures (electric, hydrogen or just less?)
Every minute 84 flights take off somewhere in the world with over 4 Billion journeys being made by plane. Burning nearly 300 million tonnes of Jet Fuel annually making up 2.7 percent of global CO2 emissions and global air travel is expected to double over the next.
Read Full article
Energy storage - an effective weapon in the fight against emissions
More than one quarter of all emissions CO2 are the emissions hard to eliminate. The political will to invest in such technologies is simply not enough in many countries. In the energy sector, switching to renewable energy sources (RES) appears to be a logical.
Read Full article
World's largest offshore wind farm will power 4.5 million homes
UK renewable energy developer SSE announced construction of Dogger Bank Wind Farm. With a capacity of 3.6 gigawatts, it will be three times bigger than the world's biggest existing wind farm. Hornsea One, which is still under construction.
Read Full article
Microsoft details long-term plan for becoming carbon negative
Microsoft executives announced plans today for the company to become carbon negative by 2030 and then by 2050 to remove all the carbon from the environment that Microsoft has emitted directly or through electrical consumption since it was founded in 1975. The compny hs been working for months on .
Read Full article
Virtual Power Plants: former sci-fi technology is now a reality
There are multiple options on how to manage distributed energy resources (DER) A virtual power plant aggregates the capacities of multiple DER of various types. This makes the production of energy more coherent and allows for efficient energy trading on the electricity market.
Read Full article
Report: Solar Installations to spike 14% in 2020
Global solar installations will continue double-digit growth rates into the new decade. New annual installations in 2020 will reach 142 gigawatts (GW), a 14% rise over the previous year. installations outside of China, the world leading market, grew by.
Read Full article
How cheap must batteries get for renewables to compete with fossil fuels?
Researchers looked at what would be required to reliably meet demand over 20 years. They found that providing baseload power at a price comparable to a nuclear power station would require energy storage capacity costs to fall below $20 per kilowatt hour (kWh.
Read Full articleORC-systems are helping to create a sustainable energy future
Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) technology is being used in Sweden to transform waste heat into renewable electricity. The high efficiency and low maintenance way to produce sustainable electricity is being adopted by district heating systems around the world. Read how Ronneby.
Read Full Business Practice
Utilize all the available energy — Heat recovery
Brazed Plate Heat Exchanger (BPHE) technology offers the most efficient recovery of heat. BPHEs are an integral tool that allow extra heat to be extracted from the refrigeration system. In many cases, the reduction in wasted.
Read Full article