Miscellaneous

Senator Martin Heinrich introduces two bills to improve transmission infrastructure in America

Friday, 02 June 2023 Robin Whitlock US Senator Martin Heinrich (Democrat, New Mexico) has introduced two bills that will help incentivise and improve the efficiency of the process to construct critically important transmission infrastructure ...

Octopus Energy and Legal & General make Britain’s biggest investment in ground source heat pumps

Tuesday, 16 May 2023 Robin Whitlock Octopus Energy’s generation arm and Legal & General Capital are turbocharging Britain’s heat pump rollout by investing £70 million in leading manufacturer and installer of ground source heat pumps, ...

Swedish heat pump company Qvantum wins German award for unique heat pump.

Wednesday, 22 March 2023 Robin Whitlock Swedish heat pump company Qvantum has received the German ISH Design Plus award for its brand-new apartment heat pump, which is so compact that it can be installed, for example, under a kitchen sink and ...

Chung-Ang University researchers develop forecasting model for efficient grid management

Wednesday, 01 March 2023 Robin Whitlock Researchers from Chung-Ang University in South Korea have developed a deep learning-based forecasting model to manage uncertainties relating to the development of renewable energy sources integrated into ...

Hitachi Energy launches next generation TXpert solution to digitalise transformers

Wednesday, 22 February 2023 Robin Whitlock Global technology company Hitachi Energy has launched its next-generation TXpert Hub, aimed at digitalising transformers by aggregating, storing, and analysing the information received from the transformer's ...

Ideal Power launches new SymCool Power Module for more efficient power grids

Tuesday, 07 February 2023 Robin Whitlock

Ideal Power Inc has announced the launch of its first commercial product, the SymCool Power Module, with a range of benefits for power grids as they are modernised to accept more renewable energy.

WinGD and CMB.TECH co-develop large ammonia-fuelled engines

Tuesday, 31 January 2023 Robin Whitlock Swiss marine power company WinGD and Belgian shipping and cleantech group CMB.TECH have signed an agreement on the development of ammonia-fuelled two-stroke engines, aiming to install the ammonia dual-fuel ...

Chartwell secures £320,000 Innovate UK smart grant to develop market-first methanol-fuelled vessel design

Tuesday, 17 January 2023 Robin Whitlock Chartwell Marine has announced it has won a £320k Innovate UK Smart Grant which will enable Chartwell and consortium partners Boat Electric & Electronics and Engineered Marine Systems to develop and ...

Arctura Awarded $200,000 grant from US DOE to electrify nitric acid production

Tuesday, 10 January 2023 REM The world appears to be rapidly shifting away from fossil fuels as a source of grid energy and towards renewable sources that don’t emit greenhouse gases. The fact that utility wind and solar PV are ...

Report says microgrid investments to reach $8B in APAC and $9B in the Middle East and Africa by 2031

Thursday, 17 November 2022 Robin Whitlock According to a new report from Guidehouse Insights, Asia Pacific and Middle East & Africa currently lead the energy access microgrids market and are expected to continue leading the energy access across ...