The global investment in green energy in 2021 hit a record high of $755 billion, BloombergNEF (BNEF) writes in the traditional report on global investment in low-carbon assets Energy Transition Investment Trends 2022. Compared to 2020, the growth was 6.5%. China has invested the most in green assets – $266 billion. In addition, in 2021, …
Global Volume of Green Investments Reached $755bn in 2021 Read More »
Enel plans to increase its renewable energy growth in Brazil with new investments in onshore solar and wind farms in the coming years, the company’s CEO Francesco Starace said. Brazil already accounts for 40% of Enel’s growth in the Latin American renewable energy market, and that figure is expected to increase as the group begins …
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TotalEnergies and Japan’s ENEOS plan to work together to develop distributed solar generation for businesses across Asia, the companies said in a joint statement. The two companies signed an agreement on the establishment of a joint venture (JV), with an objective to develop 2 GW of decentralized solar power over the next five years. The …
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Romania will accelerate the construction of small modular reactors to develop civil nuclear power, Romanian President Klaus Iohannis said. At a joint press conference following a meeting with visiting Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo, the Romanian leader said that his country would expand the production capacity of the Cernavoda nuclear power plant to meet …
The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) has released the next version of the annual collection of statistical data on installed renewable energy capacity by country, Renewable Capacity Statistics 2022. According to the latest IRENA data, last year, the capacity of power plants operating based on renewable energy sources (RES) increased by 257 GW. About the …
Capacity of Renewable Energy Power Plants in the World Exceeds 3000 GW Read More »
Hydrogen filling stations are being mass-produced across China, Xinhua news agency reported. According to Liu Yafang, a spokesman for the State Energy Administration of the People’s Republic of China, more than 250 filling stations for hydrogen vehicles have already been created in the country, which is 40% of the total number in the world. According …
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A heat engine is a thermophotovoltaic cell, similar to a solar panel photocell, that captures high-energy photons and converts them into electricity. The design, invented by experts from MIT and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), generates current from a source with a temperature of 1900 to 2400 degrees Celsius. The invention has been tested …
Heat Engine With No Moving Parts Outperforms Steam Turbine Read More »
The Forest Energy Atlas online map tool allows users to explore the potential for harvesting energy wood and other varieties in Finland, Sweden, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. This is especially useful for companies or organizations interested in using biomass. The tool is freely available on the Internet. The geographic information system allows the user to …
Baltic ForBio Launches Forest Energy Atlas Online Map Read More »
Quantum dots are one of the most promising technologies in microelectronics – the so-called fragments of semiconductors or conductors, so tiny that the movement of charges in them is severely limited, allowing quantum effects to manifest themselves. This makes it possible, for example, to precisely control the energy transition levels of the electrons and the …
Japanese Scientists Make Glowing Quantum Dots From Rice Husks Read More »
Removing carbon dioxide (CDR) from the air to avoid limiting emissions, long considered marginal, is now a necessary weapon in the fight against global warming, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says in a new report. The report says that no matter how fast the world cuts greenhouse gas emissions, it will still …
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