Pathways to Success? Assessing NESO Plans for Clean Power 2030
The National Energy System Operator (NESO) released its report last week on achieving clean power...
Features
The Economic Case for Hydrogen in Domestic Heating
Despite its thermodynamic disadvantages, global energy technology specialist Thomas Brewer believ...
Fresh Nanotech Solutions to a Freshwater Problem
With fresh water in limited supply, ensuring water security is a global challenge demanding urgen...
Engineering Net Zero Part 7: Energy Security and Affordability
In his penultimate feature on achieving net zero, David Simmonds considers the structure of the e...
Making Wind Power More Sustainable
Designed to withstand decades of strong winds and harsh weather conditions, wind turbine blades a...
Engineering Net Zero Part 5: Consuming the Planet's Resources
David Simmonds explores the picnic basket of our energy transition, our increasing dependency on ...
Watts in Store?
Adam Duckett on the promise of energy storage technologies
Air Storage: Weatherproofing Renewables- Reliant Grids
Amanda Jasi looks at projects that are compressing air to store energy
Back to the Future!
Green electricity and electric vehicles: Martin Pitt FIChemE thinks we might have been here before
Step on the Gas (Storage)
David Simmonds asks how do we achieve energy security and what’s the role of gas storage?
Energy: How to Store It
Adam Duckett looks at promising energy storage options that could help balance the rise of renewa...
Optimising Safety for the Renewable Energy Sector
A culture of care is the foundation, says Mark Walker
Achieving a Just Transition
Amanda Doyle explains why the energy transition must be fair for workers in high carbon industries
Zero-Carbon Electricity
Malcolm Wilkinson and members of the Sustainabilty Special Interest Group discuss the technologie...
The Net Zero House
Can net zero housing help the UK meet targets? Tom Baxter does the math
Decarbonising Electricity
A positive look at what has been and what can be achieved to reduce our carbon footprint
Testing the Metal
Amanda Doyle visits SaMI to learn about the next steps for steel research
Making a Dent in the Water Crisis
Developing a centuries-old idea to provide clean drinking water
South Australia to host world-scale solar thermal plant
Energy company SolarReserve has announced that it has received developmental approval for its 150...
Solar-Powered Water Purification Wins Top Prize
Helen Tunnicliffe reviews the winners of IChemE’s annual awards programme
News
UK greenlights support for long duration energy storage projects
LONG duration energy storage schemes have been given a shot in the arm with the UK government est...
NSW government greenlights million-panel solar project
A MILLION-PANEL solar farm, expected to power 229,000 homes, has been greenlit for construction b...
UK renewable energy auction secures enough power for 11m homes
THE UK government has promised to “go even further and faster” to deliver the power needed to bec...
Rio Tinto agrees state support for one of Australia’s largest smelters as Queensland ramps up renewables
OPERATION of the Boyne aluminium smelter in Queensland could be protected until at least 2040 und...
Offshore wind the winner in UK’s record-breaking £1.5bn renewable energy auction
FUNDING for the UK government’s next renewable energy auction has skyrocketed to £1.5bn (US$1.9bn...
US EPA to fund US$4.5bn worth of emission reduction projects
THE ENVIRONMENTAL Protection Agency (EPA) has announced grants worth more than US$4.5bn for clima...
Producing fuels from 1,500 degrees of solar heat: world’s first plant opens in Germany
THE WORLD’S first industrial plant using solar heat to make fuels has been opened in Germany. Usi...
Energy stored as liquefied air: £300m investment triggers construction of UK’s first commercial-scale plant
HIGHVIEW POWER has received £300m (US$379m) in funding to build the UK’s first commercial-scale l...
EU lawmakers adopt position on Net-Zero Industry Act
THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT has adopted its position on the proposed Net-Zero Industry Act (NZIA), wh...
Solar-powered dryers and greener electric car batteries among £1m Earthshot winners
A BATTERY that uses a water-soluble binding composite to make it easy to recycle, and solar techn...
US awards US$7bn for seven hydrogen hubs to boost clean energy economy
THE BIDEN administration has announced that seven hydrogen hub proposals are to receive US$7bn in...
UK clean energy auction fails to secure offshore wind bids as government accused of ‘complacency and incompetence’
HAVING failed to heed warnings that its offshore wind budget in the latest Contracts for Differen...
Chemical engineers create bio-inspired leaf that generates more power than conventional solar panels
A NEW photovoltaic leaf (PV-leaf) technology by chemical engineers at Imperial College London cou...
Denham and East Kimberley earmarked for green hydrogen facilities in Western Australia
WESTERN Australia’s push to become a major exporter of renewable hydrogen is rapidly gathering pa...
TotalEnergies and Petronas to collaborate on solar project to decarbonise Australia’s Gladstone LNG
FRENCH oil and gas giant, TotalEnergies and Gentari Renewables, a subsidiary of Petronas, are tea...
Orsted and ESB to work together on Irish offshore wind portfolio
DANISH multinational energy company Orsted, and ESB, Ireland’s leading utility, have agreed to wo...
Neom Green Hydrogen Company’s ‘mega’ green hydrogen production facility secures US$8.4bn in investments
DUBBED the world’s largest by its founding partners, a “mega” green hydrogen production facility ...
Plugging the UK into Moroccan renewables: massive undersea cable link wins funding
A PROJECT planning to run undersea cables from Morocco to the UK to supply 8% of the country’s po...
UK battery projects awarded £30m in government funding
THREE cutting-edge businesses are set to benefit from a share of £30m (US$37m) in funding from th...
Ofgem sets out proposals to transform UK energy system
THE UK’S energy regulator Ofgem has set out proposals to establish a "more decentralised, decarbo...
Engineers awarded QEPrize for advancing solar PV technology
IN ITS 10th year, the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering has been awarded to four engineers wh...
UAE to expand green energy projects in Europe and Africa
WITH plans to become a clean-energy powerhouse that will place the UAE at the forefront of the en...
UK to collaborate with Saudi Arabia on minerals, and UAE on green energy
The UK and Saudi Arabia have agreed to deepen collaboration and work together in areas including ...
Scotland’s “renewables powerhouse” ambitions: strategy seeks rush from oil and gas
THE Scottish government has set out its vision of becoming a renewables powerhouse in its Draft E...
Solar farms in space demo could be ready by 2030
A PLAN to use satellites in Earth’s orbit to harvest the Sun’s energy from space and beam it down...
Net zero transition 'world's most ambitious engineering project'
SWITCHING from fossil fuel to low-carbon energy in less than 30 years in order to achieve net zer...
European Commission to spend €8bn on hydrogen projects
IN A BID to structurally transform its energy system, while ending its dependency on Russian foss...
UK Labour party to set up publicly-owned green energy company if elected
THE Labour party have in their annual meeting outlined plans for an industrial strategy, which in...
France and Sweden both launch ‘first of a kind’ hydrogen facilities
FRANCE has launched an offshore green hydrogen production platform at the country’s Port of Saint...
Researchers produce jet fuel from sunlight, CO2 and water
RESEARCHERS at ETH Zurich, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, have successfully created a...
Charles Darwin University will install hydrogen system to collaborate with industry
CHARLES Darwin University is purchasing a hydrogen energy storage system to help Australia’s Nort...
CPH2 licenses membrane-free electrolyser for use alongside solar power plants
CLEAN Power Hydrogen (CPH2) has signed a license agreement with solar power venture GHFG to build...
UK sets up centre to advise on critical minerals, amid warnings of supply risks
THE UK has established a Critical Minerals Intelligence Centre in Nottingham to help the country ...
UK energy security bill set to become law
THE LANDMARK bill announced as part of the Queen’s Speech in May, which puts into law measures to...
New Acland coalmine gets approval for expansion
THE Queensland Government has given the green light to stage three of the New Hope Group’s open-c...
Taskforce suggests recommendations to digitally unite energy sectors
The Offshore Energy Data Strategy (OEDS) Taskforce has in a new report, set out a series of recom...
BP acquires stake in major green hydrogen and renewables hub
ENERGY major BP has agreed to acquire a 40.5% stake in and operate the Asian Renewable Energy Hub...
Student team’s water sterilisation system wins sustainability competition
A TEAM of school students who designed a solar water sterilisation system has won this year’s Dav...
UK Energy Security Strategy deemed ‘a missed opportunity’
THE UK Government has released its much-delayed Energy Security Strategy, which improves long-ter...
Now or never: emissions need to peak by 2025 says IPCC
IN its latest report, the IPCC has warned that emissions must peak by 2025 and halve by 2030 if t...
EDF plans green hydrogen facility in Teesside
EDF and Hynamics, a subsidiary of the EDF Group which specialises in hydrogen, have announced inv...
BP and Oman partner on renewable energy and hydrogen
BP has formed a strategic partnership with Oman for a ‘multiple gigawatt’ renewable energy and hy...
Renewables – not fossil fuels – are strongest link in the energy supply chain, new study finds
RESEARCHERS have developed a method to thoroughly assess the risks associated with fuel supply ch...
TotalEnergies and Iraq sign agreements for US$27bn projects
TOTALENERGIES has signed an agreement with the Government of Iraq, and the country’s National Inv...
Australia expands role of renewables funding agency to support CCS, hydrogen and greener metals
THE Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) now has a wider remit that includes funding CCS an...
Large-scale green fuels hub planned for Western Australia
AN international consortium has announced plans to build a large-scale green fuels project in Wes...
New fund seeks to boost investment and diversity of South Africa energy
A R1.5bn (US$102m) investment fund has been launched in South Africa to boost investment in the c...
Yallourn coal plant will shut early, replacement battery planned
AUSTRALIA’S Yallourn coal-fired power plant, which meets 20% of electricity demand in Victoria, w...
Australian Government backs renewable energy hub
THE Australian Government has backed a green hydrogen and ammonia production facility in Western ...
Transition to low-carbon world needs to be faster, says DNV GL report
ENERGY-RELATED CO2 emissions have peaked due to the pandemic, but the world is still on track to ...
US$130trn investment needed for carbon neutrality by 2060
A US$130trn investment to 2050 could help to reduce carbon emissions to zero by 2060, according t...
South African engineers call for more renewables
THE South African Government has been urged to restart its renewable-energy procurement programme...
Engineers gather to discuss global grand challenges
The Global Grand Challenges Summit 2019 took place in London on 16-18 September, with satellite e...
Australian hydrogen energy storage project receives US$2.4m investment
RESEARCHERS in Australia have received a A$3.5m (US$2.4m) investment to develop a system that sto...
World Bank launches first-ever mining fund
THE World Bank has launched a multi-donor fund, the Climate-Smart Mining Facility. The fund is th...
Shell plans to becomes world’s largest power firm
SHELL is set to become one of the largest power companies in the world, its Director of New Energ...
UN climate experts warn society must make unparalleled shift
LIMITING global warming to 1.5°C requires rapid and unprecedented changes to society, UN climate ...
Spray coating solar cells improves efficiency
A NEW technique for manufacturing perovskite solar cells improves their efficiency and solves pre...
World’s first liquid air storage plant opens
THE world’s first full-scale liquid air energy storage (LAES) plant, which can store excess energ...
First solar-powered desalination plant for South Africa
The first solar-powered desalination plant in South Africa will convert sea water into fresh water.
KBR wins contract for Saudi Arabia’s crude-oil-to-chemicals complex
KBR has been named the second project management contractor for the design of Saudi Aramco and SA...
Clouds defeated: real-time control system boosts solar chemicals production
CHEMICAL engineers have developed a control system costing less than €50 (US$61) that overcomes o...
Water purification using sunlight and hydrogel
A WATER purification method has been developed that uses sunlight along with an inexpensive gel, ...
200 GW: Saudi Arabia plans world’s largest solar development
SAUDI ARABIA and Japan’s Softbank have agreed to build the world’s largest solar power project, w...
Solar reactor uses storage to produce fuel day and night
A SOLAR reactor has been developed that can store thermal energy to produce fuel around the clock...
UNSW signs deal to become world’s first solar university
THE University of New South Wales (UNSW) has signed an agreement to become the world’s first whol...
Ethylene from artificial photosynthesis
ETHYLENE has been produced from an integrated artificial photosynthetic device for the first time...
Wood improves solar steam generation
POROUS wood from trees like poplar and pine could be used for an efficient, biodegradable water p...
Light-activated catalyst turns CO2 to CO
RESEARCHERS at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the US have developed a “spongy” nickel-b...
Bismuth could replace lead in solar cells
BISMUTH could offer a non-toxic alternative to lead in next-generation perovskite solar cells, ac...
New way to clean water in developing world
A MULTIDISCIPLINARY team at the University of Bath, UK, is developing a new portable, cheap and e...
