Month: March 2023

Novel Designs Could Help Power Smartwatches, Cities, Manufacturing, and a Clean Energy Grid

The concept of vehicles being intelligent devices is relatively new, and it has largely come as a result of Tesla’s contributions to the auto industry. As the industry shifts toward Tesla’s example of electric vehicles that can be updated with a simple software update, one expert notes how far supply chains for these intelligent electric […]

In February, Nine Mile Point nuclear power station in upstate New York started making its own hydrogen. Normally, this would be the point where I’d do the math and explain why this is a terrible idea, but in this case they got it right. So, what are they doing and why? The Nine Mile Point […]

New wireless charging technology from Chalmers University promises up to 500 kW of power with less than a 2% loss.

India’s largest renewable power generation company, Adani Green Energy, has announced completion of its latest solar-wind hybrid project.  Adani Green Energy announced in a press release that it successfully commissioned a 700 megawatt solar-wind hybrid project in the northern state of Rajasthan. The company claims that it is the world’s largest hybrid power project.  The […]

India’s Ministry of Power has issued draft guidelines to procure power from pumped hydro storage projects to better integrate renewable energy capacity in the grid.  According to a document released by the ministry of power, the country envisages setting up 18 gigawatts of pumped hydro storage capacity. The projects shall be used to meet peak […]

The transition to electric mobility presents a major opportunity for the African continent to leapfrog into the age of electric mobility, allowing most of the continent’s population to bypass the ICE age. Africa’s low motorization rates compared to other parts of the world makes this highly probable. Already in several African countries, there are some […]