Monday, 05 April 2021 The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and New Buildings Institute (NBI) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) formalizing the organizations’ relationship. The agreement signed last month defines how the two organizations will collaborate to advance and promote energy efficiency, enhance resilience and achieve carbon reductions in buildings. This is critically important as buildings account for nearly 40% of carbon emissions globally.
“This partnership creates an important alliance to advance our regional and global collaborative efforts,” said Bill Sisson, WBCSD Executive Director, North America, overseeing WBCSD s global work on the built environment. “We will jointly accelerate meaningful progress on making buildings part of the climate solution by engaging all stakeholders in the value chain.”
Thursday, 01 April 2021 The UK must act now to ensure a stable supply of technology-critical metals (TCMs) essential for its transition to clean energy and the delivery of its ten point plan for a green industrial revolution, according to a new Policy Commission report produced by the University of Birmingham. Lithium
Technology-critical metals such as rare earths, lithium and cobalt are essential for emerging clean-energy technologies including electric vehicle batteries, and permanent magnets used in efficient motors and generators. Demand for these materials is expected to grow exponentially over the next 20 years as a result of the global race towards next generation clean-energy technologies.
Thursday, 01 April 2021
DNV has approved WindESCo’s Energy Improvement Analysis Method 3.0, which uses machine learning to evaluate the energy improvement of wind turbines following upgrades to underperforming turbines.
Using machine learning WindESCo will be able to compare how the performance of adjusted turbines compares to control turbines, normalising for differences in turbine location and other variables. The DNV review included a detailed look at the methodology, data selection, uncertainty quantification, and reporting requirements.
This latest iteration of WindESCo’s energy improvement analysis replaces a version approved by DNV in 2019. The updates were made to better-measure small changes in wind turbine performance and improve accuracy. The model is currently being utilised at over 20 wind farms around the world in an effort to measure improvement to annual energy production (AEP) made through WindESCo’s propriety algorithms and software solutions. The approval
Thursday, 01 April 2021 GenComm project partners, National University of Ireland Galway (NUI Galway), Dublin City University and HyEnergy, have published a new report into the opportunities presented by hydrogen in Northern Ireland s green energy transition.
The report was funded by Northern Ireland’s Department for the Economy to contribute to the evidence base for the development of a new Energy Strategy.
The report reviews progress Northern Ireland is making towards its decarbonization goals, its unique challenges, and opportunities, and identifies the potential roles for hydrogen in enabling greater renewable energy deployment, through energy storage and reduced curtailment and sector coupling. It then identifies energy demand sectors that hydrogen could help in decarbonizing, such as buses, trains, and its use in the gas grid for heating. The research team presents the results of case studies for green hydrogen, hydrogen produced by electrolysis powered by renewable ele
Thursday, 01 April 2021 The cross-party Environmental Audit Committee has concluded its three month examination of tidal power technologies in the UK by urging government to engage with industry and establish appropriate revenue support for the emerging sector.
In a letter to Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng, the committee concluded that the UK has demonstrated world-leading technological development and that if the sector is supported to commercialise it could make a significant contribution the UK’s future energy mix, increase investment in coastal regions supporting the ‘levelling-up’ of the UK economy while also boosting the export potential of UK manufactured tidal turbines and associated supply chain.