Thursday, 29 April 2021 Renewable energy optimisation specialists WindESCo has confirmed a benchmark increase in assets under management through the first 90 days of 2021 with partnerships comprising an increase of over 50 percent against the closing months of 2020, in locations in North America, Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East and Africa. Courtesy of WindESCo
The milestone marks a significant evolution in the continuing maturation of the wind industry, as investors seek to improve their revenue and bolster balance sheets through a rigorous understanding of their annual energy production. Growth occurred primarily in the North American market, along with the opening of new customer opportunities in both Europe and India.
Courtesy of Volvo.
Ohme’s flagship intelligent portable charger will be available to both SMEs and larger customers via all 60 Volvo retail dealerships in the region. The company’s smart chargers are ‘Internet of Things’ (IoT) devices that can communicate with the car and the driver, with the driver being able to easily set preferences and control charging remotely via a mobile app. The smart cable’s metering capability also measures charging behaviour and location.
The Ohme solution is compatible with Volvo’s plug in hybrids enabling Ohme to bring smart, easy-to-use charging to Volvo’s customers, with the added benefit of being portable and requiring no installation.
Tuesday, 27 April 2021 Electric vehicles (EVs) are a small but growing segment of the US automobile market as consumers look for alternatives to fossil fuel use. But how can you charge an EV overnight if you don’t have a garage where you can plug it in? Researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology used machine learning to help Kansas City planners prepare to expand the availability of EV charging stations in neighborhoods where many apartment dwellers lack places to charge their cars. Andrew Roberts/Unsplash
“We wanted to locate the charging stations at streetlights so people who use on-street parking would have access,” says Dr. Xianbiao (XB) Hu, assistant professor of civil, architectural and environmental engineering at Missouri S&T. “We used city planning data including traffic volume and speed, density of land use and data from existing charging stations to see how and when they were used.”
Thursday, 22 April 2021 At his Leaders Summit on Climate, President Biden announced a new target for the United States to achieve a 50-52% reduction from 2005 levels in economy-wide net greenhouse gas pollution in 2030 – building on progress to-date and by positioning American workers and industry to tackle the climate crisis. US President Joe Biden (YouTube)
The announcement is part of the president’s focus on building back better in a way that will create millions of good-paying, union jobs, ensure economic competitiveness, advance environmental justice, and improve the health and security of communities across America. On his first day in office President Biden fulfilled his promise to rejoin the Paris Agreement and set a course for the United States to tackle the climate crisis at home and abroad, reaching net zero emissions economy-wide by no later than 2050. As part of re-entering the Paris Agreement, he also launched a whole-of-government process, organized
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The project will also validate and assess the Zinc Air Long-duration Energy Storage Technology which will be tested for resilient backup application; the 10kW/80kWh Unit will undergo required assessment tests agreed upon by the cloud provider to address its unique use cases in data centres. Test results will tentatively include validations of, e.g., transition behaviour, step change of the load, steady state operation, self-discharge level, roundtrip efficiency and operation through simulated cycling.
“This agreement represents a step forward in expanding broader and significant new market applications for Zinc8’s patented Zinc-air energy storage system” said Zinc8 Energy Solutions President and CEO, Ron MacDonald. “The continued growth in cloud data centres globally could greatly benefit from our long-duration energy storage technology and support the commitments to a reduced carbon footprint for operators of large-scale data centres”.