EfW waste heat/heat pumps/long duration storage/wireless charging & focus on offshore wind transmission

11th March 2022

This week we have all the elements of a complete zero-carbon package: Offshore wind, long term storage, hydrogen, heat pumps, plastics recycling, methane abatement. Look no further Company news Sony and Honda discuss alliance to build EVsHonda and Sony announced that they’re exploring the possibility of entering a joint venture for developing and building electric … Read More

RHI / Home Solar / Virtual PPA’s / SDG7

7th June 2019

A big thank you to Aurora Energy Researh for their excellent Summer Renewables Summit. A privelege to hear the formidable Doyne Farmer (mathematics professor at Oxford) explain how mere mortal forecasters such as the IEA just don’t understand the concept of exponential growth. Under his model solar energy fits the 35% annual growth model, which … Read More

Zero Carbon Cluster / Electric buses / Swansea Bay / Invisible doors

31st May 2019

The renewables equivalent of Groundhog Day: technologies that keep coming round without getting any closer to generation. This week we have two: Tidal bays and CCS. No doubt next week nuclear fusion will be back. Company news Drax, Equinor and National Grid to create UK’s first zero carbon cluster They have signed a memorandum of … Read More