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Solar

Solar panels on rooftop of house

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10/7/2024 Feature / Mohua Mukherjee

The evolution of rooftop solar energy in India

Oxford Energy Senior Research Fellow Mohua Mukherjee explains where rooftop solar (RTS) fits in today’s energy sector in India. Why are RTS projects lagging far behind utility-scale solar projects in the country? What is being done by the government to increase the pace of RTS installations and why might it succeed?

Ammonia

Aerial view of Hekinan Thermal Power Station

10/7/2024 News

World’s first large-scale 20% ammonia substitution test at coal-fired power plant successfully completed

Japanese electrical utility Jera, in collaboration with IHI Corporation and the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organisation (NEDO), has successfully completed a demonstration test of fuel/ammonia substitution at Hekinan Thermal Power Station Unit 4 in Aichi, Japan.

Energy storage

CGI rendering of storage at Galp’s Alcoutim solar plant, Algarve, Portugal

10/7/2024 News

EBRD invests $229.4mn for BESS in Uzbekistan; funding for Australian battery roll-out announced

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is to loan more than $200mn to a battery energy storage system (BESS) in Uzbekistan. There are also developments for Chile’s BESS del Desierto project, Australia’s community battery roll out and Galp’s first storage project in Portugal.

Solar

Head and shoulders photo of Gurpreet Gujral, set against a grey background

10/7/2024 Comment / Gurpreet Gujral

The UK’s rainy climate won’t prevent it becoming a solar superpower

The successful deployment of solar power at scale does not require a climate of Australia-like sunshine. Commercial building roofs are one important site for large photovoltaic (PV) installations, as Gurpreet Gujral, Managing Director at renewables developer Atrato Partners, writes.

VIDEO OF THE WEEK

Aerial view over construction site with many part-built buildings and domes and lots of cranes

11/7/2024 News

Hinkley C – getting to the heart of the matter

This video (see below) of Hinkley Point C shows how the project is getting ready to install the heart of the new nuclear power station, which is being constructed in Somerset, UK.

Energy transition

Close up of Mary Robinson and Ban Ki-moon sitting in chairs on stage, with Mary speaking and Ban looking on

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10/7/2024 Feature / Ban Ki-moon,Mary Robinson

Fixing climate change: the world leaders’ perspective

Former UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and former Ireland President Mary Robinson discussed climate change and related issues in a Chatham House panel discussion on 3 May. Both are now part of global advisory group The Elders, working as, respectively, Deputy Chairman and Chairman. Below is an edited and abridged account of the session, introduced and moderated by Bernice Lee, Chatham House Research Director – Futures.

Hydro power

Head and shoulders photo of Kate Gilmartin, with a green leafy hedge in the background

10/7/2024 Comment / Kate Gilmartin

Water, water everywhere – facilitating the expansion of hydropower in the UK

While hydropower is a well-established technology in the UK, current thinking is largely about developing smaller-scale schemes to supply local loads, and to add more pumped storage capacity to the grid. Kate Gilmartin AMEI, CEO of the British Hydropower Association (BHA) – which also advocates for tidal range energy – explores the options.

Fusion energy

The HH70 device

3/7/2024 News

First nuclear fusion plasma achieved in private-sector Chinese nuclear fusion tokamak

Shanghai-based private-sector developer Energy Singularity’s HH70 tokamak has achieved first plasma, an essential prerequisite of nuclear fusion, giving China a ‘first-mover advantage’ in the development of fusion technology.

Oil and gas

Engineer on offshore platform walkway

3/7/2024 News

New DNV survey highlights an oil and gas sector paradox

The oil and gas industry is facing a ‘petroleum paradox’ – balancing increasing global demand for its petroleum products alongside growing pressure to transition to low-carbon energy sources in order to reduce emissions and tackle climate change. Many in the sector are diversifying their portfolios by investing in alternative energy sources and technologies; Shell recently provided an update on a planned carbon capture project in Alberta, Canada.

Offshore wind

Close up of one offshore wind turbine at sunset, others in background

3/7/2024 News

European renewables held back by problems at the bidding and planning stages

Aspects of the bidding process in recent European offshore wind auctions, and in onshore UK planning arrangements, have been criticised in separate reports.

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