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EI President Juliet Davenport at lecturn, speaking at International Energy Week 2024

6/3/2024 Comment / Juliet Davenport

The efficiency of power

At International Energy Week, Energy Institute President Juliet Davenport OBE HonFEI emphasised the importance of electrification to the global task of decarbonisation, as she introduced a conference session on electricity generation and the electrical grid. Below is an edited version of her remarks.

Batteries

Aerial view of energy storage system in desert

4/6/2025 News

Aramco debuts flow battery first while Bulgaria and New Zealand unveil record-setting BESS projects

Recent energy storage innovations include Aramco commissioning the first-ever iron-vanadium flow battery backup for solar-powered gas wells in Saudi Arabia, Bulgaria inaugurating the EU’s largest battery energy storage system and New Zealand opening its first grid-scale BESS.

Renewables

Aerial view of Neoen’s Collie Battery Stage 1 project

6/11/2024 News

Australia looks to the future with rising battery, solar and wind investments

A new report predicts 300% growth of renewables in Australia over the next decade as a large battery storage project starts up in Western Australia, a new solar technology is promoted and the benefits of sheep grazing in solar farms are investigated.

Hydrogen

12/6/2024 News

China solidifies lead in global electrolyser market

China’s national plan identifies hydrogen as a key element in its low-carbon energy transition strategy, targeting 200,000 t/y of green hydrogen production by the end of 2025. However, the latest analysis from Rystad Energy suggests China will exceed that volume by the end of 2024. It forecasts that about 2.5 GW of hydrogen electrolyser capacity will have been installed by the end of the year, producing 220,000 t/y of green hydrogen, some 6,000 t/y more than the rest of the world combined.

Floating solar

27/9/2023 News

Floating solar farms promise potential solution to Hong Kong land shortage

A floating solar farm is being planned in Hong Kong in a bid to overcome limited land resources as it strives to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. Meanwhile, construction is about to start on what is claimed will be the largest floating solar farm in Europe.

Biofuels

The Dawn mirror array and collecting tower

26/6/2024 News

Biofuels: first industrial-scale solar thermal plant inaugurated, while used cooking oil claims queried

Synhelion has inaugurated a solar thermal fuel plant in Jülich, Germany, while plans progress for a similar plant in Australia as well as an innovative biofuel chemical conversion plant in the UK.

Electric vehicles

19/11/2025 Comment / Delvin Lane

Powering the future: the need for smarter grid connections for EV charging

As the UK decarbonises its transport network, it shifts the source of energy for vehicle propulsion from fossil fuel supply chains to the electricity grid. But the grid is also experiencing high levels of demand for electrified heating and, increasingly, for power for data centres. This is why we should consider stations with batteries and on-site power generation at scale for rolling out electric vehicle (EV) charging, contends Delvin Lane, Chief Executive Officer of EV charging developer InstaVolt.

Energy prices

Head and shoulders photo of Ian Gadsby, Managing Director, Ylem Energy

10/5/2023 Comment / Ian Gadsby

As wholesale energy costs come down, are businesses finally out of the woods?

Third-party energy costs are at their highest point ever for UK businesses, and inflation and volatility in the fossil fuels market make it likely they will increase further. Here, Ian Gadsby, Managing Director of Ylem Energy, discusses how onsite generation and storage can alleviate this pressing issue.

Solar

4/10/2023 News

Big rise in solar jobs across the globe

The number of people employed in the solar power sector has grown substantially in Europe in the past year, according to SolarPower Europe. Meanwhile, two thirds of India’s power generation growth in the next 10 years looks set to come from solar and wind, plus the UK has had a record-breaking year in solar rooftop installations. There are also new solar projects in Kazakhstan, the US and Indonesia.

Wind

4/9/2024 News

US wind generation hits new record and exceeds coal-fired generation

Electricity generation from wind established a new record in the US earlier this year, exceeding coal-fired generation in both March and April 2024, according to the latest analysis from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). As to substituting coal-fired power with renewables, a new report highlights the crucial role of declining costs of battery energy storage system (BESS) projects for the phase-down of coal-based power generation in India, currently the world’s second largest coal consumer.

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