Energy-efficient building renovation: a Franco-German challenge
To achieve climate neutrality by 2050, the question of renovating buildings to be more energy-efficient is of crucial importance. More than ever before, it is…
CCS and CCU among low-carbon technologies to be developed and tested at scale over the next decade
Brussels, 17 September 2020 – The European Commission presented their plan to increase the EU’s 2030 target for emission reduction to at least 55%, up from…
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…
Without ‘Transformative Change’ to Global Economic Systems, Humans Risk Causing More Deadly Pandemics
“There is a single species that is responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic—us,” write the authors, who have previously published planetary status reports from IPBES. “As…
Doughnut cities
There is no place in the world where all residents share the same level of prosperity, or where this prosperity has been achieved in a…
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…
Arnhem, that’s smart!
The City of Arnhem has selected OpenRemote’s open-source IoT solution to automate and oversee a distributed energy system combining solar and wind power installations, electric…
Sorry for raising the bar too high
“I don’t think science knows” – Donald Trump’s response to a scientist’s suggestion that climate change had a crucial role in this August’s West Coast…
Big in Japan
Japan’s energy policy made headlines in July, when the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry announced plans to phase out older, inefficient coal plants, along…
Partying with CO2
Do you fall for fall celebrations? Do they evoke fond memories? Do you look forward to goblins and other Halloween trick-or-treaters and even gobbling up…
Kelenföld
Hidden in Budapest’s 9th district lies the Kelenföld Power Station. Built in 1912, after few years it became Hungary’s largest coal power plant and one…
What is environmental racism?
Poisoned tap water in Flint, Michigan. Toxic waste dumps in the Lower Rio Grande Valley. A town in China where 80% of children have been…
The big Muddy River’s long, turbulent relationship with coal
Southern Illinois has been coal country for quite some time. Men first mined coal there in 1810, when they took the black rock from outcroppings…