⚡️ Energy
Energy production and consumption is becoming cleaner, cheaper and decentralized. With connected devices you as a consumer can take control of your energy consumption. Here you will also find content about batteries, smart grids, nuclear and other innovation in the energy field.
🔆 Change the car - keep the battery
Batteries that last for over two million kilometers have a significantly longer service life than the rest of the car. What does it mean when we have to "buy a new car?"
🌊💨☀️ New platform that makes renewable energy more accessible tested off the coast of Greece
Energy is generated increasingly offshore. What is most common is offshore wind, but also wave energy is on the rise. This summer, the first platform to integrate wave, wind and solar power into a solution is being tested.
🔋 Simplified recycling can provide both cheaper and better rechargeable batteries
A method of recycling NiMH batteries can reuse as much as 95% of old batteries.
⚡ PRTI Creates a Power Platform from Waste Tires
#ICYMI, A little known, but big impact company, Product Recovery Technology International, or PRTI, is revolutionizing how the value from waste tires is realized.
👩❤️👨 Northvolt and Norsk Hydro are investing in recycling batteries from electric cars
More electric cars are increasing demand for efficient recycling of materials from end-of-life batteries. The new company Hydro Volt will provide more efficient and environmentally friendly use of valuable raw materials.
🇺🇸 Plans approved for North America's first-ever freshwater offshore wind farm
Ohio legislators have approved plans for the Icebreaker wind project off of the Lake Erie shore near downtown Cleveland. It will generate 20.7 megawatts of energy.
🌞 Insanely low solar prices
Even the most optimistic forecasters have been wrong, the price of solar energy has dropped even faster. Soon it is cheaper to build new solar energy than to retain existing coal and gas.
⚡ Renewable energy surpasses coal in U.S. power generation every day in the month of April 2020
In a first for any month, renewables from solar, wind, and hydropower generated more electricity than coal on every day in April 2020, according to new data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA).
🏭 Sweden Shuts Down Its Last Coal Plant Two Years Early
Swedish utility Stockholm Exergi announced the closure April 16, a day before Austria also closed its last remaining coal plant, bringing the number of coal-free European countries up to three.