Sleek and elegant styling, amazingly quick acceleration and an extraordinary driving range have made the all-electric Tesla Model S one of the most talked about vehicles in the world. That is an impressive achievement for a vehicle that has been in production for just seven years. Interestingly, Tesla does not apply model years to its […]
Green Energy
Securing safe battery supply chains
As demand for lithium-ion batteries continues to surge, manufacturers are increasingly looking for stable, conflict-free supplies of their component metals. The primary sources for cobalt, one of those component metals, are the copper mines of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Given that country’s war-torn history, and notoriously criminal child labour laws, it’s easy to see […]
Energy storage offers way to ‘break free’ of grid restrictions
ENERGY STORAGE could provide an opportunity for farms to ‘break free’ from the restraints of their current grid connection capabilities and use energy more efficiently. Dr Simon le Blond, consultant at Swanbarton, told the Energy Now Expo in Telford: “Battery storage is like a grain store. “It allows the producer to store energy produced on […]
Power sector provides enormous potential for investors
As indications emerged recently that due to irregular supply of public electricity, about N3.5 trillion ($21.9 billion) is spent yearly by businesses, families and others in Nigeria to buy fuel for power generation; the country’s electricity consumption per capital has been adjudged to be the lowest in Africa, according to a report by Agusto & […]
Mini power plants smooth out UK’s energy landscape
Last month, an engineer at a small power company in Solihull took a call from National Grid. A large gas plant had failed. Could the engineer’s company, UK Power Reserve, start up one of its small gas power units to help? Without standing up, the engineer sent a text message asking for one of UKPR’s […]
Scotland’s floating wind farm is showing how powerful offshore wind can be
The world’s first commercial floating offshore wind farm, called Hywind, started sending electricity to the grid last October. Since then, the six-turbine, 30MW installation has been working well. Really well. In fact, Hywind has had a 65-percent capacity factor over the last three months according to Statoil, the Norwegian mega-corporation that built the wind farm off the […]
