In the Swiss Alps, at an altitude of 600 meters above sea level, Swiss authorities launched the most powerful pumped storage power plant, which took 14 years to build. The reservoir’s capacity allows storing 20 GWh of energy and delivering it to the grid with a total of up to 900 MW. In Switzerland, pumped …
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A surge in China’s hydropower generation this year, fueled by record rainfall, is helping the world’s biggest environmental polluter meet sustainable development goals and cut imports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) amid tight global supplies, Reuters reported. Global coal and LNG prices hit record highs this year, fueling inflation as Western sanctions on Russia cut …
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The Gas for Climate consortium has published a study to update the potential for biomethane production in EU member states. The study shows that 27 EU countries have enough raw materials to meet the targets (35 billion cubic meters) for producing fuel from renewable energy according to the European Commission’s plan to phase out the …
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The additional nutrients added to crops have caused the population to grow from 1.6 billion people in 1900 to almost 7.8 billion today. Fertilizers have expanded food production, but agricultural intensification comes at a cost to the environment, climate, human, animal, and soil health, according to Carbon Brief. Global fertilizer production accounts for about 1.4% …
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The expansion of renewable energy in Lower Saxony (Germany) is currently sluggish, according to the news service of the German broadcaster Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR). Half as many new wind turbines were built in Lower Saxony in the first half of this year as compared to the same period last year, according to preliminary data from …
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Nuclear power is too expensive to be seen as an option to help Australia cut carbon emissions for at least the next decade, according to the latest CSIRO report. While some politicians and industry organizations continue to promote nuclear power as a way for Australia to move away from fossil fuels, the economics of large …
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Latvia will achieve energy independence earlier than 2030, as envisaged by the national energy and climate plan, but the capacity of the production base to provide the country with electricity remains a long-term problem, Latvian Economy Minister Ilze Indriksone said in an interview with LETA. Commenting on the decision taken by the government in June …
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Enefit Green is building a hybrid renewable park producing electricity from wind and solar in Ida-Viru County, Luganuse parish, projected to be launched as early as next year. This is the first time such a hybrid solution for large-scale alternative energy production has been created in Estonia. According to Aavo Kärmas, Chairman of the Management …
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China-based Yalong River Hydropower Development (Yalong Hydro) has begun constructing the Kela Solar Power Plant, expected to be the world’s largest combined hydropower and solar power plant, according to Yicai Global. The station is near the new Lianghekou hydropower project on the Yalong River. It will be built in Sichuan province. The project’s cost is …
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The scientific publication Advanced Functional Materials reports on a discovery made by scientists from the Institute for Open and Interdisciplinary Science Initiatives at Osaka University (Japan) that could change the future of solar panels and solar energy. The researchers found that solar panels made from an antimony sulfide composite change their output voltage as the …
