Greening China’s overseas energy projects
New database from Boston University’s Global Policy Center shows the biggest share of Chinese global power investment going into coal but renewables projects on the…
Renewables
Successful demonstration of conversion of wind power to methanol
Plant operation launched in Stralsund (Germany) for converting renewable electricity into bio methanol. The plant will be operated in a long-term test over one year…
Power-to-X: Germany’s search for green fuels
Germany wants to take a leading role worldwide in the production, transport and use of green hydrogen as an energy source, also known as Power-to-X…
Virtual Power Plants Could Help Solve Our Energy Needs. But What Are They?
Building a greener, more resilient grid will be essential in the coming decades if we want to slow the pace of climate change and cope with…
1.4 MW Power-To-X Project Underway
Hydrogen will be stored for later use The Dutch energy company Alliander has chosen Green Hydrogen Systems (GHS) to supply the electrolyzers for a large-scale…
Integrated power-to-fuel project underway in Europe
The Power-to-Fuel project, led by Liquid Wind (Gothenburg, Sweden; www.liquidwind.se), will establish commercial-scale renewable fuel facilities. The Consortium (consisting of Axpo, COWI, Carbon Clean Solutions, Haldor…
HYFLEXPOWER: The world’s first integrated power-to-X-to-power hydrogen gas turbine demonstrator
– Green hydrogen project launched in May 2020 – Decarbonizing a paper factory by modernizing an existing combined heat and power plant in France With…
A power-to-gas system integrating co-electrolysis and methanation
Researchers in Italy extensively analyzed four different configurations of their proposed system to assess its potential, including under non-optimal, ‘off-design’ conditions and concluded that, for…
Why green energy finally makes economic sense
Bob Holmes Renewable energy experts have long hoped that solar and wind power would someday become the cheapest way to generate electricity, allowing the world…
South Korea subsidizing biomass so heavily that wind and solar are being crowded out of the market
The government of South Korea is subsidizing the development of biomass power so heavily that it’s hindering the adoption of renewable energy technologies like solar…
A Glimpse into Real-Time Methanol Synthesis
Scale-down miniplant for research on methanol synthesis at Fraunhofer ISE Methanol will gain importance as a chemical energy carrier in the course of the energy…
Energy’s lost weekend
The coronavirus pandemic is first and foremost a health crisis, but it will have long-lasting effects on most areas of the global economy, not least…
Methanol: from grim to green
Isolated for the first time in 1661 by the Irish chemist and physicist Robert Boyle from the distillation of boxwood, methanol (or methyl alcohol) was…