Miscellaneous

New energy storage system harnessing wind power in Saskatchewan

Thursday, 08 November 2012 REM Saft, a leading designer and manufacturer of high technology batteries for industry, has been selected by Cowessess First Nation (CFN) to design, produce and install a Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) ...

Miston Oy acquires majority share of Oliotalo Oy

Tuesday, 02 October 2012 REM

The Finnish family business has now become the majority owner of Oliotalo a company which manufactures intelligent remote monitoring solutions

Liquid air: A new industry for UK Plc?

Thursday, 27 September 2012 REM Leading academics, senior government officials and industry executives will meet at the UK’s Institution of Mechanical Engineers on Tuesday 2 October to consider how liquid air can help deliver a zero ...

Hydrogen technologies are coming of age

Wednesday, 01 August 2012 REM Prompted by our article last week on the Isle of Wight becoming a test bed for hydrogen fuel, Samuel Sterling from Angstrom Advanced’s Renewable Hydrogen Business Development Division got in touch about ...

Energy from renewable sources – illuminating grid vulnerability

Tuesday, 15 May 2012 REM As new decentralised power generating units are connected to the grid almost daily, the expansion of our electricity grids is proceeding only slowly, taking our grid infrastructure to the limit. Against ...

Why aren't UFOs drawn to renewable energy sites? Or are they?

Thursday, 15 March 2012 Dan McCue Witnesses says they've seen them near nuclear facilities, oil rigs and even hovering above active volcanoes. But UFOs -- whatever they are and whomever may be controlling them -- seem to have turned a ...

Germany

A first as hydrogen-hybrid power station commissioned

Friday, 04 November 2011 Toby Price Described as “a world premiere”, the Prime Minister of the State of Brandenburg, Matthias Platzeck, put into operation a hydrogen-hybrid power station in Prenzlau located north of Berlin (Germany) ...

China’s monopoly on rare earth metals poses risk to clean energy sector, report says

Friday, 14 October 2011 REM China’s virtual monopoly over the global rare earth metals market – it accounts for 97 percent of worldwide production – is a troubling area of potential risk for clean every technologies ranging ...

Ireland sees port development as key to renewable energy opportunities

Friday, 02 September 2011 REM

Ireland needs to develop its port and shipping services or risk losing out on substantial elements of a multibillion euro renewable energy sector growing in northwest Europe, a new report says.

US East Coast girds for Hurricane Irene

Friday, 26 August 2011 Dan McCue Hurricane Irene, the strongest Atlantic storm to threaten the US since 2005, is bearing down on the nation’s East Coast this weekend, and will pass directly through several areas considered prime ...