Three weeks ago, a US agency sent the clearest signal yet that fossil fuels’ days are numbered. True enough, the carbon-burning economy has been declared to be on its death bed umpteenth times before. But this came with a time frame related to the ultimate killer: the battery. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ruled that […]
Green Energy
Neoen’s 50 MW hydrogen electrolyser at proposed wind, solar facility in Australia receives grant
An initial grant of $1 million has been awarded to French firm Neoen by the State Government’s Renewable Technology fund to finalise the plans for a 50 MW electrolyser facility at its proposed wind and solar farm, located at Crystal Brook in South Australia. It is planned that the electrolyser will produce 20,000 kg of […]
Researchers in Belgium develop new class of solid composite electrolytes for Li-ion batteries: Eutectogels
Researchers at Hasselt University in Belgium are proposing a new class of solid composite electrolytes (SCEs) for Li-ion batteries: deep eutectic solvent (DES)–silica composites. The DES-based gel electrolytes—to which the team refers as eutectogels (ETGs)—are characterized by high ionic conductivity (1.46 mS cm–1), thermal (up to 130 °C) and electrochemical stability (up to 4.8 V), […]
Lithium-sulfur batteries poised for leap
Take that, Tesla. Researchers at Oxis Energy, a startup company in Abingdon, U.K., are building batteries with a combination of lithium and sulfur that store nearly twice as much energy per kilogram as the lithium-ion batteries in electric cars today. The batteries don’t last very long, conking out after 100 or so charging cycles. But […]
Govt Greenlights Electricity Joint Ventures in Mon State, Bago Region
The Myanmar Investment Commission (MIC) has granted permission to two joint ventures involving foreign partners to supply power to areas not connected to the national grid. “One is for households in Ye Township, and the other is for the developer of an industrial zone in Bago,” said U Than Aung Kyaw, deputy director-general of the […]
ReNew Power opens micro-grid, inks pact on 2GW of solar across Uttar Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh
Indian renewable energy developer ReNew Power has inaugurated a 16kW micro-grid in Paniyara village, near Varanasi, in the state of Uttar Pradesh. The village was adopted by ReNew Power in 2016, as part of its Corporate Citizenship initiative, known as SVARG (Smart Village Adopted by ReNew Group), and the micro-grid will power around 200 households, […]
