1+ day, 22+ min ago   (649+ words) Environmental performance must be assessed at the product level with the same rigour as cost, safety and uptime, writes Bin Lu of Schneider Electric. At the same time, competition is intensifying. And despite these pressures, operational requirements remain unchanged: performance,…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago   (661+ words) New buildings can be designed smart but the real test is in bringing existing, often historic, buildings into the digital age, writes Canesia Amarysti. Historical and heritage buildings are complex by nature: architecturally protected, they are difficult to retrofit due…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago   (887+ words) Benchmarking by E.DSO indicates a nuanced picture of climate resilience activity by DSOs in Europe. The benchmarking covering ten metrics structured around the four key features of robustness, redundancy, reliability and response and recovery. It indicates that while the sector…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (706+ words) GE Vernova has won an order to supply aeroderivative gas turbines for a major upgrade of Pearl City power station in Hawaii. GE Vernova is to supply six aeroderivative gas turbines for the modernisation of Hawaiian Electric's (HECO) Waiau Power…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (704+ words) A new report from Ember shows that adding wind and solar behind the meter of existing hydro assets could bypass grid constraints. A new report released by think tank Ember shows that adding wind and solar behind the meter of…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (573+ words) In this episode of the EU Energy Projects Podcast, I talk to Alberto Ogura, Industry Lead, and Marlene Zanier, Circular Economy Lead, at Climate KIC. One of the first of Europe’s ‘knowledge and information communities’ (KIC), pronounced ‘kick’) the Climate…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (778+ words) The BIOBUILD project is developing fully bio-based materials that aim to increase energy efficiency in buildings, writes Nouhaila Bouhout. Buildings are responsible for a significant share of Europe’s energy consumption, with heating and cooling remaining among the largest drivers of…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (779+ words) The BIOBUILD project is developing fully bio-based materials that aim to increase energy efficiency in buildings, writes Nouhaila Bouhout. Buildings are responsible for a significant share of Europe’s energy consumption, with heating and cooling remaining among the largest drivers of…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (516+ words) The certification confirms the system meets DNV’s reliability and safety requirements and marks progress towards utility-scale wave energy. CorPower Ocean has announced that it has been awarded a prototype certificate from independent assurance body DNV for its Wave Energy Converter....

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (819+ words) The ENFLATE Swiss demonstration site explores how distributed residential flexibility can support future electricity grids, writes Joëlle Clot. The increasing electrification of heating is fundamentally changing the requirements placed on electricity grids across Europe. At the same time, the growing…...