Ineos’ experience using giant electrolyzers for chlorine production could be the foundation for a low-cost green hydrogen business. It seems everyone wants to get in on the ground floor when it comes to green hydrogen. Utilities and oil majors both have a head start with their mixture of renewable power capacity, gas transmission assets and […]
Japan’s Nidec plans $2 bln EV motor factory in Europe: Report
Nidec founder Shigenobu Nagamori has said he wants a 35% market share for energy-saving electric motor technology know as e-axle or e-drive by 2030, which is expected to have grown ten times by then to as much as $30 billion a year. TOKYO : Nidec Corp will spend 200 billion yen ($1.9 billion) on a […]
‘Hydrogen Wars’ pit Europe vs China for $700 billion business
Hydrogen is expensive to make without expelling greenhouse gases, difficult to store and, not least, highly combustible Niels-Arne Baden has a problem. The factory he’s building for Green Hydrogen Systems is too small. Plans for the Denmark site to be one of the largest for assembling the machines that make hydrogen from electricity were finalized […]
Does Europe have the tools it needs to quit importing batteries?
For some time now, Asia has been the undisputed centre of global battery production. For companies elsewhere looking to source batteries, Asia was the only place to go. However, from a standing start in 2016, the European battery sector has since burst into life. There is still a long way to go, but there has […]
A Blockchain-Enabled Smart Meter for Clean Power Trading?
NV Energy tests digital tech to track kilowatts of clean energy from cradle to grave. Blockchain’s energy sector applications range from the highly speculative — think peer-to-peer energy-trading using cryptocurrency raised in initial coin offerings — to more incremental efforts, grounded in the real-world challenges of operating an increasingly decentralized power grid. The latter describes […]
JinkoSolar (JKS) to Supply 204 MW of Swan Bifacial Modules to juwi Hellas for the Biggest Bifacial Solar Project Ever Built in Europe
JinkoSolar Holding Co., Ltd. (the “Company,” or “JinkoSolar”) (NYSE: JKS), one of the largest and most innovative solar module manufacturers in the world, today announced that it has signed a Module Supply Agreement for the Kozani project (“Kozani”) in the north of Greece, which has been developed by juwi Hellas Renewable Energy Sources S.A. (“juwi […]
Electric cars to triple market share in Europe amid COVID-19, researchers say
This saw electric cars more than triple their market share in the European Economic Area (EEA), compared with the first half of last year, T&E said BRUSSELS : Electric vehicles made up 8 per cent of car sales in Europe in the first half of 2020, putting them on track to triple their market share […]
Already the World’s Leading Market, UK Doubles Support for Offshore Wind
U.K. expands renewable auctions, releases funds for the offshore wind supply chain and sets a new floating wind target. U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has offered a huge boost to the country’s offshore wind sector as it looks to double-down on its status as the world’s leading market. The nation’s next round of contracts for […]
UAE, U.S. and Israel to develop joint energy strategy, say ministers
The United States, Israel and the United Arab Emirates will develop a joint strategy for greater coordination in the energy sector and look to solve energy challenges facing the Palestinians, the energy ministers said in a statement. The statement, carried on the UAE’s state news agency WAM, said the three countries would work together on […]
Europe needs to develop green hydrogen industry jointly: Enel CEO
MILAN : Europe needs to develop a green hydrogen industry jointly, as it did with the Airbus AIR.PA project, if it is to become a competitive business, the head of Europe’s biggest utility Enel ENEI.MI said on Tuesday. “Alliances between two or three countries won’t work, it needs to have a European dimension,” Enel Chief […]