| Quaise Energy Raises $21 Million to Accelerate Terawatt-Scale Geothermal Energy  Quaise Energy, has closed a $21 Million Series A1 financing round led by Prelude Ventures and Safar Partners. Mitsubishi Corporation and Standard Investments are among several new investors participating in the round. This latest funding will enhance the company’s field operations and strengthen its supply chain position, while ongoing product development will continue with pre-existing capital. |  Spain
BayWa r.e. starts construction of 188 MW wind and solar flagship project BayWa r.e. is developing its first combined dual-technology project in Spain, consisting of three wind farms with a capacity of 135 MW, representing the largest onshore wind installation for the company in Europe to date, and two solar farms with a total capacity of 53 MW. BayWa r.e. has developed the project in cooperation with its local partner CEAR, who will continue to support the development of the cluster. |  Bermuda And Seabased Show How Islands Can Transition To Ocean Energy Bermuda's Deputy Premier Walter Roban presented his country's vision for an innovative model to transition to renewable energy at the World Ocean Summit in Lisbon. Speaking to the global audience of innovators, regulators, and representatives of the financial community he explained that Bermuda had created a regulatory sandbox for renewable technology working with Seabased Group to deploy a utility-scale wave energy park. | Biogas | Weltec Biopower's First Kumac Plant in Germany Goes Live  In March 2024, Agrar GmbH Reichenbach commissioned its Kumac digestate processing system from WELTEC BIOPOWER. This is the first Kumac plant to go live in Germany, in addition to the 16 that have been built worldwide to date. The agricultural company based in the Vogtland region of Saxony, Germany, specializes in dairy farming and the cultivation of feed crops. In addition to the dairy farm with 1,400 cows and breeding cattle, the farmers have been operating a biogas plant with an electrical output of 845 kW since 2006. The facilities generate up to 72,000 t of liquid manure and digestate per year. | Electric/Hybrid | CityQ aiming to replace car traffic with car-like e-bikes  Mobility technology startup CityQ is ramping up production of its ‘car-like e-bikes', available in the UK, Germany, Benelux and Scandinavia in both cargo and passenger variants and aimed at cities across Europe seeking to reduce congestion and pollution by imposing limitations to car traffic. | Volvo Cars partners with and invests in Breathe for next generation fast charging India
ICRISAT welcomes new electric buggies to its Hyderabad campus in India Spain
EAVE chooses EVBox charging solutions as part of 10,000 charging station rollout plan in Spain StoreDot signs strategic manufacturing agreement Energy saving Hydrogen | H2MOF Makes Hydrogen Storage and Transportation Safe and Efficient  Nobel laureate Professor Sir Fraser Stoddart, awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2016 for the design and synthesis of artificial molecular machines and Professor Omar Yaghi, founder of Reticular Chemistry and awarded the Albert Einstein Award of Science in 2017, have joined forces founding H2MOF, a US-based company with the mission to design and develop durable and efficient solid-state hydrogen storage solutions that work under ambient temperature and low pressure. | Japan
Researchers at Chiba University, Japan, find that adding caffeine can supercharge fuel cells Clean energy is more than a party-political football says HEA Jane Marsh Miscellaneous | Offshore Renewables Innovation Program Set to Continue  A program that brings academia and industry together to co-design solutions for offshore renewable energy (ORE) has been renewed for another five years. IDCORE, out of the University of Edinburgh, will receive £6m from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), as part of a £1bn investment announced today by Science, Innovation and Technology Secretary Michelle Donelan. | GE Vernova and Dragos collaborate to protect electric grids from cyber threats Panorama | Global net zero targets in jeopardy finds EIC report  The inaugural “Global Net Zero Jeopardy Report” by the Energy Industry Council (EIC) has found that only 11 percent of energy industry leaders believe global interim targets for achieving net zero will be met. | PV Storage | IFBF 2024: Will flow batteries triumph in 2024?  In June 2024, the International Flow Battery Forum (IFBF) will hold its thirteenth in-person conference in Glasgow, supported by Invinity Energy Systems and Flow Batteries Europe, discussing the latest innovations, policy updates and market challenges for the development of the flow battery sector. | Wind | Huge, Sustainable, Revolutionary: How Radia’s WindRunner is Set to Change the World  Radia is an energy company building a unique aerial transportation solution, the WindRunner, specifically engineered to deliver the largest wind turbine blades and components directly to wind farm sites – including difficult-to-access locations and low-wind locations where large blades are needed to generate power more cost effectively. | Agenda ACP RECHARGE: Energy Storage Summit SOAR 2024: Technical Solutions for Resource Management |
