Decarbonising industry means the decarbonisation of electricity and heat. In principle, industry can rather easily decarbonize their electricity consumption, just buy green electricity. Heat is the…

An old saying in Ireland goes: ‘there is no strength without unity’. When it comes to distributed energy resources (DER ), it couldn’t be more true. DER, acting individually, has a very limited…

In 2019, as delegates at energy summits debated the pace of the clean energy transition, a quiet tension underpinned global investment trends. The world invested over USD 1.8 trillion that year, but…

A novel platform, to be developed within the project EMB3Rs, will allow everyone in an energy community to explore ways of reusing excess thermal energy on site. Data from a living lab’s cutting-edge…

The so-called Energy Transition involves the transformation of the electricity grids, and their digitalization goes beyond their equipment. It is a new paradigm based on radical changes in the…

According to the recently published article in the Harvard Business Review "Energy Strategy for the C-suite", energy is climbing up the corporate agenda. This is true and based on climate change and…

Industrial decarbonization will require massive amounts of capital investment over the next 30 years. Decarbonizing steel alone will require $278 billion in additional capital, according to…

Integrating renewables into the electricity system is a challenging task. Currently, different concepts of how to do this are being discussed. In our last two posts we focussed on different concepts…

Author: Jennifer Layke From January 2018 to June 2019, China added 43 gigawatts (GW ) of net new coal power capacity to its existing 1,000 GW coal fleet, while the rest of the world collectively…

In the midst of the global transition towards sustainable energy, hydrogen is increasingly being recognized as a pivotal player. With governments, corporations, and research institutions exploring its…