The latest report from Carbon Tracker reveals a future in which the investment in coal power plants is deemed economically and environmentally unviable, and five Asian countries are poised to suffer great economic losses with their plans to hang on to dirty energy. The COVID-19 pandemic and the cheaper renewables might have contributed to a 4-percent decline in coal power generation in 2020, but e ...

DNV, the independent energy expert and assurance provider, is now fully accredited by CNAS (China National Accreditation Service). This allows DNV to offer type certification of wind turbines and component certification of gearboxes, rotor blades and generators for products destined for Chinese wind power projects.  DNV predicts in its latest Energy Transition Outlook that by 2050, wind power will ...

Coinciding with its first-year anniversary, the global technology and market leader announces that it will be changing its name and corporate brand from October 2021Hitachi ABB Power Grids today announced that it will be evolving to become Hitachi Energy from October 2021. The decision to change name has board and shareholder consent and coincides with the business' first-year anniversary since it started o ...

Vanadium flow battery cell stacks at VRB Energy's large-scale demonstrator project in Hubei Province, China. Image: VRB Energy.  Thailand-headquartered renewable energy group BCPG will invest US$24 million into vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) manufacturer VRB Energy, aimed at accelerating VRB’s utility-scale VRFB business. BCPG is active in developing and operating assets across the solar, wind, geo ...

Samsung must switch to using 100% renewable energy in South Korea and Vietnam -- the tech conglomerate's two biggest production bases -- even as those countries plan to build more coal-fired power plants, Greenpeace said in a report on Tuesday. The environmental group's report lauded Samsung Electronics for hitting a 2020 target of 100% renewables in China, Europe and the U.S., but warned it risked being ec ...

GE Renewable Energy has appointed Jan Kjaersgaard as the new CEO of its offshore wind business. He succeeds John Lavelle, who is retiring after a 40-year career and plans to stay on board to assist with a transition over the next several months. Kjaersgaard joins GE from FLSmidth, where he was most recently president of the cement business, including full EPC turnkey plants, products business and aftermarke ...

The Japanese government’s approval of a plan to discharge treated radioactive water stored at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean has unilaterally reversed a decade of nuclear safety reform in Japan. Although providing information to foreign embassies in Tokyo and online social networks, the Japanese government has failed to allay domestic concerns and rising international pressure. T ...

Mitsubishi Power, a subsidiary of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) Group, has received an order to supply a 180 megawatt (MW) class gas turbine combined cycle (GTCC) power plant fired by blast furnace gas (BFG) for Jiangsu Shagang Group, a leading Chinese steelmaker. The order, which includes an M701SDAX gas turbine as a key component, was received through Mitsubishi Power's local subsidiary. The GTCC plan ...

Eaton’s latest iCube 2.0 and 9PX UPS product enhancements aim to deliver edge-deployable, energy-efficient solutions to organisations looking to future-proof their data centre infrastructure. Global power management company Eaton recently announced two new additions to its micro data centre (MDC) and 9PX uninterruptible power supply (UPS) series – the iCube 2.0 and the 9PX lithium-ion UPS. Tailored to addre ...

Through its new IoT Network Planning Service, Diehl Metering provides independent training, guidance and technical support. The service aims to empower cities, utilities and industrial companies to build IoT networks that unlock their full potential, now and in the future.   © Diehl Metering-2021  The Internet of Things is transforming businesses, cities and industries everywhere. B ...