Riverrecycle partners with Clean Planet Energy in Southeast Asia to turn thousands of tonnes of waste-plastics from the environment into ultra-clean energy

Thermoelectric cooling, heating, and harvesting is partly a great success now, partly to be a success later. First to analyze this big picture is the new IDTechEx report, "Thermoelectric Cooling, Heating, Harvesting: 90 Companies' Achievements and Strategies Appraised with Roadmap 2022-2042".

Orbital Marine Power's O2 has commenced grid connected power generation at the European Marine Energy Centre in Orkney. The innovative, floating turbine is anchored in the Fall of Warness where a subsea cable connects the 2MW offshore unit to the local onshore electricity network.

While they may have struggled to find their place in the market over the past few years, there will be significant adoption of redox flow batteries towards the end of the next decade according to a new IDTechEx market report, "Redox Flow Batteries 2021-2031".

The future of Samoa's electricity system could go green, a study has shown. Pacific Island nations are particularly susceptible to climate change and face high costs and energy security issues from imported fossil fuels.

Pittsburgh International Airport has become the first airport in the world to be completely powered by natural gas and solar energy as part of its newly live microgrid.

Robotics and semi-autonomous equipment are taking humans out of mines, reducing costs and risk.

Mines increasingly use solar power so they increasingly need energy storage for hours, due to load-source mismatch, up to seasonal because solar is feeble in winter. This can transition to battery-free energy storage intimately using mine assets for grids and local industry and communities when the mine is expired as a source of minerals. This is what we cover in this article, ending with a slide on how the same applies for electricity generators.

Construction, agriculture and mining are progressing towards 100% electrics from off-grid zero emission electricity production on site, with mining sites and farm desalination particularly power hungry up to 100MW levels.

The control of industrial vehicle emissions has increasingly become the focus of stringent limitations on exhaust constituents such as NOx, CO and particulate matter, as such engine manufacturers have begun introducing innovative design changes and sophisticated engine control systems to reduce the major pollutants in diesel exhaust and comply with each successive tier level.

Over the last decade, wind energy prices have fallen 70% and solar photovoltaics have fallen 89% on average, with the cost of renewables continuing to trend downwards.

Researchers have designed a new class of molten sodium batteries for grid-scale energy storage. Molten sodium batteries have been used for many years to store energy from renewable sources, such as solar panels and wind turbines.

The amount of capital expenditure spent by mining companies is estimated by various organisations.

Unused energy trapped within bridges is to be harvested in a major new international project. Traffic and wind regularly cause low frequency vibrations to ripple through bridge building materials such as steel and concrete. This energy would normally travel away from its source before dissipating but academics have recognised an opportunity. They intend to capture and recycle this untapped source by using the principles of physics.

In line with modern trends, if something needs predicting, you can safely bet that artificial intelligence will make an appearance. To date, there are many algorithms that can estimate the power produced by photovoltaic systems several hours ahead by learning from previous data and analyzing current variables.

The project in Babberich has a capacity of 2.67 MWp and is spread over 3.3 hectares of a raspberry farm. Due to the special construction of the semi-transparent photovoltaic roof, there is no need for plastic arches to protect against extreme weather events. The solution provides a stable climate for growing fruits and generates green energy at the same time.

A more value-added approach to repurposing redundant fossil fuel assets such as coal mines and power stations is available.

The photovoltaic effect of ferroelectric crystals can be increased by a factor of 1,000 if three different materials are arranged periodically in a lattice.

When fully operational, the Western Green Energy Hub could produce up to 50 gigawatts of hybrid wind and solar power over 15,000-square-kilometres in South-East Western Australia.