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The Palo Verde Generating Station will get a US$20 million upgrade to produce and store hydrogen, and convert it back into electricity for grid backup power

Energy

US DoE funds project turning nuclear power into green hydrogen

The US Department of Energy has committed US$20 million to an Arizona-based project that will use nuclear energy to create green hydrogen, testing its capability as a liquid backup battery and as a secondary product for nuclear power installations.

The bigger the wind turbine, the better the production and the economics. Hence, they're scaling up to ludicrous proportions.

Energy

World's biggest wind turbine shows the disproportionate power of scale

China's MingYang Smart Energy has announced an offshore wind turbine even bigger than GE's monstrous Haliade-X. The MySE 16.0-242 is a 16-megawatt, 242-meter-tall behemoth capable of powering 20,000 homes per unit over a 25-year service life.

Energy

World's biggest green hydrogen project announced for Kazakhstan

Germany's Svevind has announced plans for a colossal green hydrogen project that will place some 45 gigawatts of wind and solar energy generation on the vast steppes of Kazakhstan to produce around three million tonnes of green hydrogen annually.

Even in the worst-case scenario of a terrorist bombing, molten salt nuclear fuel simply hardens into rock, vastly reducing the consequences of an accident while making these next-gen reactors cheap, effective and small enough to put on floating barges

Energy

Mass-produced floating nuclear reactors use super-safe molten salt fuel

A tiny, cheap molten salt reactor that fits in a shipping container could radically disrupt the nuclear power industry. Denmark's Seaborg says it will mass-manufacture them and deploy them globally on floating barges, on a paradigm-smashing timeline.

H2Pro's E-TAC hydrogen production system promises a revolutionary jump in water-splitting efficiency, and a 20-year plunge in the cost of clean hydrogen

Energy

H2Pro's dollar-a-kilo green hydrogen: a 20-year leap in clean energy?

Israeli company H2Pro claims its highly efficient water-splitting technology will deliver green hydrogen at less than US$1 per kilogram before 2030. That would leapfrog current projections by 20 years, and spark green revolutions in many industries.

The heart of a new "greener than green" hydrogen production facility design planned for Lancaster, California

Energy

California trash-to-hydrogen plant promises dirt-cheap, super-green H2

Greener than the best renewable hydrogen production processes, and as cheap as the dirtiest coal-generated H2 out of India – using garbage for fuel that would otherwise sit in landfill. Extraordinary claims for a new H2 plant planned for California.

The Ovo Vehicle-to-Grid charger will be rolled out to Nissan Leaf and e-NV2000 drivers in the coming months as part of a 2 year trial

Good Thinking

Ovo Energy's V2G charger could see EV owners drive for free

Ovo Energy has launched a suite of domestic energy products, including a V2G charger that gives EV drivers the flexibility to draw electricity from the grid when it's cheap and sell it back during peak demand hours. And if users get the balance right, they could effectively drive their EVs for free.

Eco Wave's Wind Clapper and Power Wing system

Environment

Gibraltar to suck up 15 percent of its power from waves

While world leaders meet in Paris to discuss reducing carbon emissions believed to contribute to climate change, the government of Gibraltar is putting its own renewable energy plan into action.

Researchers have, for the first time, found a way to store electrons generated by photoelectrochemical (PEC) cells for long periods of time

Energy

New energy cell can store up solar energy for release at night

In an advance that could help photoelectrochemical cells (PECs) play a stronger role within the smart grid, researchers at the University of Texas, Arlington have found a way to store the electricity generated by this clean energy source for extended periods of time.