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Artificial Intelligence

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18/10/2023 Feature / Brian Davis

AI and renewables: What’s the potential and reality?

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning have the potential to support, optimise and accelerate the development of renewables in the energy transition. New Energy World Features Editor Brian Davis offers an insight into a raft of AI applications – and also road tests ChatGPT.

Electric vehicles

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18/10/2023 Feature / Selwyn Parker

End of the ICE Age looms as EV sales accelerate

Electric vehicle (EV) sales are steadily lapping those of traditional internal combustion engines (ICE) across the globe. But sales are not linear in all markets. And the effect of removal of subsidies cannot be dismissed, along with concerns about having sufficient batteries. Selwyn Parker reports.

Hydrogen

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25/10/2023 Feature / Putra Adhiguna

Japan continues to bet on hydrogen, despite decades of lacklustre progress

Japan is relying heavily on hydrogen as a solution to decarbonising its industry, buildings and transportation. But this poses significant challenges, as Putra Adhiguna, Energy Technologies Research Lead, Asia, at the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA), explains.

Innovation

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25/10/2023 Comment / Kayra Hutchison,Anabelle Cox,Isabelle Assor

Making hydrogen fuel from scrap metal

Winners of this year’s Energy Institute Climate Change Award*, part of the Big Bang Competition 2023, Kayra Hutchison, Anabelle Cox and Isabelle Assor from Queen Elizabeth's Girls' School, describe their innovative concept.

Energy efficiency

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25/10/2023 Comment / Paul Webb

The power of sharing experience on the road to net zero

Achieving net zero emissions will require greater collaboration, cooperation and sharing of knowledge from a broad range of stakeholders. Conferences such as the Energy Conscious Organisation (EnCO) conference facilitate this, writes Paul Webb MEI, Chartered Energy Manager, Author, Podcaster and founding Director of B2B Energy.

Electricity markets

25/10/2023 News

EU ministers agree reform of electricity market design

The Council of the European Union (EU) reached a long-awaited agreement last week on a proposal to amend the EU’s electricity market design (EMD) in a bid to protect consumers from volatile prices and speed up the deployment of renewables.

Hydrogen

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25/10/2023 News

Harnessing the sun’s heat to produce clean hydrogen

Research engineers at the US Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a conceptual design for a system to produce totally green, carbon-free hydrogen fuel with a new, train-like system of reactors driven solely by the sun.

Energy storage

25/10/2023 News

Proof of concept for renewable energy storage

The Molten Salts Storage (MOSS) project in Esbjerg, Denmark, is reportedly a ‘world first’, with the pilot plant aiming to validate the commercial viability of storing renewable energy in liquid hydroxide salts.

Energy infrastructure

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25/10/2023 News

Pressing need to modernise UK infrastructure

Improved infrastructure to boost economic growth across the UK and meet climate goals is both ‘achievable and affordable’ if the right policy steps are taken now, according to the latest long-term review from UK government’s independent advisers on infrastructure strategy.

Grid management

25/10/2023 News

Biden makes ‘largest ever’ investment in US electric grid projects

President Joe Biden is to invest $3.46bn in 58 clean energy projects across 44 states to strengthen the resilience and reliability of the country’s electric grids – the biggest ever investment in the US electric grid.

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Search results:

AI and renewables: What’s the potential and reality?

End of the ICE Age looms as EV sales accelerate

Japan continues to bet on hydrogen, despite decades of lacklustre progress

Making hydrogen fuel from scrap metal

The power of sharing experience on the road to net zero

EU ministers agree reform of electricity market design

Harnessing the sun’s heat to produce clean hydrogen

Proof of concept for renewable energy storage

Pressing need to modernise UK infrastructure

Biden makes ‘largest ever’ investment in US electric grid projects