Energy & Green Tech
Geodata can help in the expansion of renewable energies and thus in the acceleration of the energy transition. The Reiner Lemoine Institute (RLI) is now publishing a comprehensive data package with potential areas for Germany. ...
Jul 5, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
The rust-colored tower rising from an industrial site near the banks of Berlin's Spree river looks nothing like the sleek flasks Germans use for coffee, yet its purpose is similar: to provide some warmth throughout the day, ...
Jun 30, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
China aims to double its wind and solar capacity by 2025, according to a new road map that also allows for more coal-fired power plants to bolster energy security.
Jun 2, 2022
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Engineering
When the power grid goes down, there's a step-by-step recovery process—a "blackstart" that up to now has depended on power from gas or hydro turbines spinning away inside a power plant.
May 31, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
On a breezy, sunny day in May 2022, the state of California broke a record—cleanly. For just a few minutes, the state exceeded its massive consumer electricity needs, using only the power of renewable energy. And yet, as ...
May 30, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Researchers from Skoltech, Shandong University, and ORE Catapult have proposed a way to stabilize wind farms under overvoltage conditions, when imbalances in the power grid causing voltage swells can temporarily knock out ...
May 26, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Tokyo's Shibuya is famed for its Scramble Crossing, where crowds of people crisscross the intersection in a scene symbolizing urban Japan's congestion and anonymity. It may have added another boasting right.
Apr 27, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
To most people, a solar farm or a geothermal plant is simply a power producer. Scientists and engineers see far more potential.
Apr 4, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Geothermal energy has long been the forgotten member of the clean energy family, overshadowed by relatively cheap solar and wind power, despite its proven potential. But that may soon change—for an unexpected reason.
Mar 21, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Solar farms along tsunami-ravaged coastlines, green energy "micro-grids" and the experimental production of non-polluting hydrogen: 11 years after its nuclear nightmare, Japan's Fukushima region is investing in a renewable ...
Mar 9, 2022
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