Due to their falling costs, the adoption of renewable technologies is increasing at a very fast rate in the United States. But a boom is not always a ...
Advance in alternative solar energy technology
Researchers of MIT and Houston University announced improvement in their work on an alternative solar energy technology. The approach is based on ...
Mapping urban underground infrastructure
The costs for street projects could soon be drastically reduced: the goal of a project of UI labs in Chicago is to map all of a city’s underground ...
Energy sector addressing cybersecurity threats
Cybersecurity risks pose a serious threat to the energy industry. Companies of the sector now joined together to encounter these threats which will make ...
Northern Germany goes green on energy using Industry 4.0 know-how
Starting in December, an energy system of the future will be developed in Northern Germany as part of the project “NEW 4.0”. Using Industry 4.0 ...
Finding the best way to distribute solar energy for utilities
The way how utilities distribute solar energy varies considerably among them. A study analyzed the integrated resource plans of 30 different utilities and ...
The challenges and opportunities of Japan’s energy reforms
Interconnection problems could be a big issue for the transition of Japan’s recently liberalized energy sector. The developments in the sector also ...
Renewable energy breakthrough relies on battery technology
Mc Kinsey’s think tank estimates that the price of lithium-ion battery packs might fall by 30% within the coming 10 years. While this will help the ...
Scotland on 100% renewable electricity by 2020
Due to low global oil prices and the declining oil resources in the North Sea, the Scottish government set up an ambitious plan to increase renewable ...
Turbine invented to collect a typhoon’s energy
The Japanese engineer Atsushi Shimizu developed a turbine that can harness the energy of a typhoon or other storms. According to the inventor the energy of ...
