Renewables

Spending time outdoors is an incredibly rewarding experience, but it comes with its own concerns at the same time. While it’s nice to get some time to spend in nature with beautiful landscapes it is important to plan things thoroughly in order to have a great experience.

Energy metering integrated circuits (ICs) from Analog Devices are now being shipped by Mouser Electronics. The ADE9xxx energy metering ICs deliver highly accurate measurements of apparent energy (kVA), active energy (kWh), reactive energy (kVAR), rms, and power quality for meeting the needs of next-generation smart metering, industrial instruments, single-phase and polyphase revenue meters, and energy-monitoring applications.

A new whitepaper on hybrid development has been released by Castrol’s innovation business, Nexcel. ‘Challenges and Opportunities for the Development of Hybrid Electric Vehicles: a Unique Perspective from Nexcel’ outlines the future landscape for CO2-reducing technologies and systems integration and provides insights into how Nexcel technology can add value to future hybrid designs. 

As offshore wind turbines continue to grow in size and power output, wind farm developers and operators are preparing to switch over to 66 kilovolt (kV) technology. This is because operating at the higher voltage offers important lifecycle cost-efficiency benefits such as the possibility of reducing the number of substations required as well as reducing the length of cables that need to be installed. 

With data centres expected to consume as much as 20% of the world’s energy within only a few years, the deployment of energy efficient data centres is crucial. Swedish developer of climate-positive data centres EcoDataCenter is now launching a carbon positive data centre in Falun in central Sweden.

Approval from The Crown Estate has been granted to Ørsted, to progress its Race Bank Extension offshore wind farm. The current Race Bank offshore wind farm, located off the North Norfolk coast and operated from Ørsted’s East Coast Hub in Grimsby, was officially opened in June this year. It is capable of powering over half a million UK homes from its 573MW capacity.

When attempting to sell your property, you want to do everything you can to make it an attractive purchase. A new coat of paint, making repairs and tidying up are all usually on the list, but have you considered improving your energy rating? MoneySuperMarket has found that upgrading your Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) – the government’s rating of a property’s energy efficiency - from an average D to a high end A ...

At the EU PVSEC conference, imec, research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics, energy and digital technology and partner in EnergyVille, announced that its latest generation of large-area monofacial screen-printed rear-emitter nPERT cells feature a conversion efficiency of 23.03%, certified by Fraunhofer ISE CalLab. 

More than nine out of 10 solar-ready homes and schools in the United States have not yet gone solar and the new app-driven Renewable Nation and its ‘Solar Schools 2025’ program intend to do something about that. The Renewable Nation app is available now on the Google Play store and iTunes. 

UK vehicle leasing provider, Lex Autolease, is launching a new fund to offer contributions of £1,000 towards the cost of 1,000 new pure electric vehicles. Announced at the Zero Emission Vehicle Summit in Birmingham, the £1m fund is for the first 1,000 Lex Autolease customers who sign up for a pure electric vehicle from January 2019.