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The Volvo Group Creates Business Area Dedicated to Accelerating Electrification

The new business area Volvo Energy will strengthen the Volvo Group’s business flow of batteries over the life cycle as well as the customer offer for charging infrastructure. At the same time, the environmental impact from electric and hybrid electric commercial vehicles and machines will be reduced by giving used batteries a second life in different applications.

28 Jan 2021

VivoPower International PLC Announces Completion of Electrical Works for 39 MWdc Molong Solar Farm

VivoPower International PLC (VVPR, the “Company”) is pleased to announce that its wholly-owned subsidiary in Australia, J.A. Martin Electrical Pty Limited (“J.A. Martin”) has recently completed all electrical works for the 39 MWdc Molong Solar Farm, located 40 kilometers northwest of the town of Orange in New South Wales. The project is the second Australian solar farm completed by J.A. Martin in partnership with lead contractor GRS.

28 Jan 2021

New ABB Emission Monitoring Solution Helps the Maritime Industry Achieve Decarbonization Targets

The launch of ABB’s CEMcaptain will help shipping comply with the sulphur emission regulations that were enforced in 2020, and keep in check their CO2 footprint.

From ABB Measurement & Analytics 28 Jan 2021

UK Floating Offshore Wind Could be Subsidy-Free by 2030

UK floating offshore wind could reach “subsidy-free” levels by the early 2030s, according to a study completed by the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult’s Floating Offshore Wind Centre of Excellence (FOW CoE).

27 Jan 2021

Student Initiative Saves Over 30 Tonnes of Face Mask Waste From Entering Landfill

Mask Bros’ co-founders, Frederik Filz and Cogan Wade, the student pioneers who exposed price-gouging by major British high-street stores in 2020, are pleased to announce that they have now supplied 25 million of their fully recyclable medical masks to businesses and consumers and has consequently saved over 30 tonnes of mask waste from going to landfill.

27 Jan 2021

Green Hydrogen to Decarbonise Kirkwall Airport

The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) is collaborating with Highlands and Islands Airports Limited (HIAL) to decarbonise heat and power at Kirkwall Airport through green hydrogen technology.

27 Jan 2021

Economic Growth, Fossil-Fuel Use, and Air Quality are Closely Linked

For a long time, world economies have been powered by the combustion of fossil fuels that has also contributed to the accumulation of greenhouse gases and air pollution.

27 Jan 2021

River-Borne Plastic Pollution Considerably Affects Southeast Asian Mangroves

According to a new study, mangrove ecosystems are specifically at risk of getting polluted by plastic transported from rivers to the sea. About 54% of mangrove habitat lies within 20 km of a river that carries over one tonne of plastic waste into the ocean annually.

27 Jan 2021

Improvements Observed in Water Quality of Maryland’s Choptank River

Water in the Chesapeake Bay has long been polluted by nutrients, leading to water quality degradation.

27 Jan 2021

Leveraging the Power of AI to Make Solar Power Plants More Efficient

Computer scientists and energy technology experts from Case Western Reserve University have joined hands to exploit the diagnostic power of artificial intelligence (AI) to improve the efficiency of solar power plants.

27 Jan 2021

Researchers Study the Impact of Increasing Ocean Temperatures on Marine Life

Global warming or climate change. It doesn't matter what you call it. What matters is that right now it is having a direct and dramatic effect on marine environments across our planet.

27 Jan 2021

Collaboration with Farmers is Key to Improving Soil Health and Agricultural Productivity

There are an estimated 40,000 to 50,000 species of micro-organism per gram of soil. Addition of certain microbes can tailor soil characteristics: removing contaminants, improving fertility and even making barren land available for farming.

27 Jan 2021

Boosting the Efficiency of Carbon Capture and Conversion Systems

Systems for capturing and converting carbon dioxide from power plant emissions could be important tools for curbing climate change, but most are relatively inefficient and expensive. Now, researchers at MIT have developed a method that could significantly boost the performance of systems that use catalytic surfaces to enhance the rates of carbon-sequestering electrochemical reactions.

27 Jan 2021

SEGRO to Deliver Greenest Site in London

SEGRO has secured planning consent from Haringey Council and the Greater London Authority to speculatively develop what is set to become London’s greenest industrial estate.

27 Jan 2021

Pacific Green Enters into a Framework Agreement with Sinopec to Work on a Portfolio of Projects that include Onshore and Offshore Wind Power, Photovoltaic Power and Comprehensive Energy Utilization

Pacific Green Technologies, Inc. is pleased to announce that a wholly owned subsidiary of Pacific Green Technologies (Shanghai) Co. Limited has signed a Framework Agreement with SINOPEC Star Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of SINOPEC, the world's largest oil refining, gas and petrochemical conglomerate headquartered in Beijing to provide design, development engineering and consulting services.

From Pacific Green Technologies, Inc. 27 Jan 2021