Eco Innovation

Either offshore or inland, wind farms endure all kinds of harsh environments. Inland, wind farms are exposed to the elements, while offshore turbines operate in highly corrosive conditions where in-person maintenance and repair are hard to conduct. Therefore, as Martin Frederiksen, Managing Director at Recab UK points out, condition monitoring for wind farms is essential and relies upon rugged embedded computing, points out.

The need for energy storage is growing tremendously, and battery applications are everywhere - from mobile phones to handheld power tools, to electric vehicles using grids tied to alternative energy. Meanwhile, the boundaries between storage cells and supercapacitors are getting blurred. Supercapacitors are taking over the jobs previously done by battery cells, such as in memory retention applications. The science of energy storage for both batte...

The delivery of tomorrow’s clean electricity will be through an infrastructure characterised by diverse and widely distributed generating sites and predicated on technologies that must deliver continuously increasing performance and energy efficiency. Mark Patrick, Mouser Electronics, explains.

New investment in renewable energy projects and companies totalled $174bn in the first half of 2021, supported by record public market financing and record levels of venture capital and private equity commitments, according to the latest Renewable Energy Investment Tracker from research company BloombergNEF (BNEF). This is the highest total ever recorded in the first half of any year, and 1.8% more than during the same time a year prior, although...

In 2015, the United Nations General Assembly published its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), laying out the body’s blueprint for tackling global challenges through to 2030. Six years later, progress has been slower than anticipated from governments and businesses alike. Here, Ben Smye, Head of Growth at Matmatch, looks at how manufacturers and material suppliers can bolster their sustainability strategies.

Researchers have made a major breakthrough in the use of solar energy to generate hydrogen fuel, a potential green power storage medium. New research on barium tantalum oxynitride semiconductors has uncovered a technique that makes the technology 100 times more efficient. The breakthrough could help make practical an alternative, solar power-based hydrogen generation method.

Wärtsilä will supply a 5.2MW / 5.2MWh energy storage system for the Taiwanese grid as they seek to achieve 20% of its energy from renewable sources by 2025. The order was placed in August 2021 by Shangfa Construction who will build the energy storage facility on behalf of North-Star International

According to a new Carbon Brief analysis, the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions in 2020 were 51% below 1990 levels, largely down to the country’s COVID slowdown. The figures mean the UK is now halfway to meeting its target of net-zero emissions by 2050.

Imagine mines with so much electricity production and storage that they do far more downstream processing. As reserves deplete, many will even transition to being zero-emission power stations and electricity storage for local communities and industry or even national grids. The cost of making-good becomes income from reinvention. That is the untold story of mining electrification, beyond the vital safety, greening, and cost reduction of electrics...

Richardson Electronics has announced the issuance of US Patent No. 11,073,130 (the ’130 Patent). The ’130 Patent is a result of Richardson’s solutions for replacing lead-acid batteries in wind turbine pitch systems.