electricity

12 min.
Building design is key to reducing demand for energy guzzling air conditioning07/May/2019

Cooling in a warming world
11 min.
Not one of the hyper-scale data centres, where thousands of servers are hosted in the same place, in the US use waste heat in a significant way10/April/2019

Tepid support for reusing waste heat from data centres
5 min.
Researchers in Germany are looking at further developing molten salt technology as a means to store heat and produce electricity29/March/2019

Molten salt heat storage
5 min.
Germany is testing whether a nitrate salt thermal storage system could aid the provision of process steam for industry while earning subsidies for capturing emissions of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, and combusting it for energy supply27/March/2019

Methane sequestered and waste heat put to work
4 min.
Burning imported waste for energy will be incompatible with climate targets in the longer term, say researchers in Denmark15/March/2019

Limited future for energy from incinerated waste imports
7 min.
Smart grid has become a trendy term, but some proper thinking is needed about its meaning and the purpose of information technology advances if the result is to advance the energy transition28/February/2019

Smart grids require much more smart thinking
5 min.
Spanish utility Iberdrola is testing the use of blockchain to show customers exactly where their wind energy is produced. Francisco Hernanz, Head of Renewable Energy Management at the company, highlights the importance of innovation11/February/2019

Blockchain in energy
14 min.
Parked electric vehicles plugged into the electricity network with charged batteries could sell stored power back through the network. Nissan is the first to qualify a car battery system to sell its stored power into an existing market for primary regulation services to maintain grid frequency28/January/2019

Real life vehicle-to-grid seeks market opportunities
10 min.
A start-up based in Scotland is confident it has found an affordable silver bullet to allow the world’s grids to deal with massive amounts of renewables, but system operators are not so sure18/January/2019

Modernising the grid without breaking the bank
4-5 min.
EU proposals to fund new gas infrastructure projects make no sense given Europe’s decarbonisation commitments. The European Parliament can vote on 12 December to ensure clean energy infrastructure is prioritised, say Elisa Giannelli and Lisa Fischer from think-tank E3G10/December/2018

Energy infrastructure for a climate neutral Europe
9-10 min.
Trucks and ships could be two means of transport running on hydrogen gas, produced using electricity, in the coming years28/November/2018

Hydrogen makes its case as a niche clean transport option
4-5 min.
If we don’t electrify more, we won’t reach our decarbonisation goals, says Ralf Christian, CEO of Siemens Energy Management Division26/November/2018

Coming soon: the all-electric energy world
7-8 min.
The reaction of the Australian government to the recent IPCC report was to reject a phase out of coal. But with research showing new wind and solar are competitive with new coal, economics, not politics, looks set to define the country’s energy mix23/November/2018

Energy transition economics outpace Australian politics
11-12 min.
The focus on awarding contracts to the lowest bidders among established renewables technologies under Europe’s auctions of power purchase contracts could prevent less developed forms of renewable energy from reaching their potential07/November/2018

Strength in diversity
7-8 min.
14/September/2018

Tübingen gives rooftop solar an extra nudge
6-7 min.
The construction of vast data centres in Denmark by large tech giants will boost the Danish economy, but risks impacting the share of renewable energy20/August/2018

Denmark grapples with voracious energy appetite of big data centres
4-5 min.
13/August/2018

Policy action needed to decarbonise residential heating by 2050
4-5 min.
Bornholm, a Danish island due south of Sweden in the Baltic Sea, is making itself into a “Bright Green Island” by pursuing a goal of carbon neutrality by 2025. To get there, Bornholm has become a laboratory for new technologies and strategies to cut emissions.07/May/2018

Bornholm Island a test bed for new energy technologies
6-7 min.
01/March/2018

Danish businesses drive electric revolution, but government remains in park mode
1-2 min.
In Copenhagen EnergyLab Nordhavn are experimenting with batteries14/November/2017

An urban energy battery trial
5-6 min.
14/November/2017

Batteries for grid support not bulk supply
6-7 min.
14/November/2017

What storage is for and what it cannot do
7-8 min
14/November/2017

No sign of a silver storage bullet
14/November/2017

Vanishing coast
6-7 min.
07/July/2017

The dangers of using a sharp instrument
7-8 min.
07/July/2017

Spending pennies to save pounds
4-5 min.
07/July/2017

Homes wanted for power hungry data centres
3-4 min.
07/July/2017

Vehicle to grid experiment with global perspectives
6-7 min.
07/July/2017

Scandinavia shows the way for clean transport
6-7 min.
07/July/2017

In the hands of engineers
4-5 min.
07/July/2017

A path to growth and welfare
2-3 min.
07/July/2017

Make the real cost of energy visible
4-5 min.
17/March/2017

In brief
14-15 min.
11/October/2016

The trillion dollar promise of digitalisation
6-7 min.
11/October/2016

History lessons in why expensive is proving cheap