Renewables

Clean and sustainable refrigerated solutions for urban distribution operations from Frigoblock, a Transportation Solutions business of Ingersoll Rand, were showcased yesterday at the LoCITY roadshow in Twickenham, UK.

Unveiled at a festival in Finland, the Fortum Singalong Shuttle is a taxi that only accepts singing as payment. The emission free electric car rides became a popular form of transport at Finnish Ruisrock festival.

Neste has explored ways to introduce liquefied waste plastic as a future raw material for fossil refining. The aim of the development project is to proceed to industrial scale trial during 2019. The company’s target is to process annually more than one million tons of waste plastic by 2030. "Neste has been ranked the world's second most sustainable company and we are already the world's largest producer of renewable diesel from waste a...

The newest edition to the eclectic and ever growing list of companies embroiled in developing a flying vehicle is Rolls-Royce. The British car manufacturer recently revealed that it has designed a propulsion system that allows ‘electric vertical take-off and landing’ (EVTOL) as part of a project to develop a flying taxi. 

It has been announced that Tilt Renewable has chosen Greenbyte Energy Cloud for their windfarm management and data analysis. Tilt Renewable operates a full wind portfolio made out of eight farms and approximately 600+ MW, marking the first assets Australia and New Zealand integrated in Energy Cloud. 

This reference design functions from a base of Silicon Carbide (SiC) MOSFETs that are driven by a C2000 microcontroller (MCU) with SiC-isolated gate drivers. The design implements three-phase interleaving and operates in Continuous Conduction Mode (CCM) to achieve a 98.46% efficiency at a 240V input voltage and 6.6kW full power.

Before electric cars can become a means of transport for everyone, a charging infrastructure needs to be introduced that can serve the mass market. The engineering company, Finepower is developing a charging system that can charge the batteries in all vehicle types wirelessly, regardless of their manufacturer, as it is done inductively. The special circuitry provides a high level of efficiency - with no need to painstakingly position the system w...

Bicycles have experienced a boom in development lately and most recently, electrification has contributed significantly to this trend. According to the German bicycle industry association ‘Zweirad-Industrie-Verband’ (ZIV) sales of e-bike in the country increased by 19% last year to a total of 720,000 units. In 2016, 605,000 were sold, making this an increase of 13%.

James Court, Head of Policy & External Affairs, Renewable Energy Association has responded to the Road to Zero strategy with an optimistic outlook on funding and the new regulations for electric vehicle charging.

A charging station is part of the grid infrastructure installed along a street, parking lot or in a home garage; its primary purpose is to supply the power to the PHEV for charging the battery. An onboard charger is responsible for the final stage of charging the battery pack. It takes the AC power source from the EVSE and transforms the power into the required battery-charging profile.