⚡️ Energy
Energy production and consumption is becoming cleaner, cheaper and decentralized. With connected devices you as a consumer can take control of your energy consumption. Here you will also find content about batteries, smart grids, nuclear and other innovation in the energy field.
🔋 Sweden first in the world: Electric car chargers are used to relieve the electricity grid
The energy company Tibber and about 1,000 of their Swedish customers will be the first in the world to use their electric car chargers to stabilize the electricity grid.
⚡ Scotland's goal: Reach 100 percent renewable energy by 2020
When Scotland shut down its last coal-fired power plant in 2016, the goal was to power all of Scotland with 100 percent renewable energy by November 2020. The goal is unique and Scotland is well on its way to success.
☀️ Transparent solar cells to be tested in Sweden
Transparent solar cells, which can use 10 times less light than ordinary solar cells, will be tested on site at Green Innovation Park in Ultuna.
🔆 Change the car - keep the battery
Batteries that last for over two million kilometers have a significantly longer service life than the rest of the car. What does it mean when we have to "buy a new car?"
🌊💨☀️ New platform that makes renewable energy more accessible tested off the coast of Greece
Energy is generated increasingly offshore. What is most common is offshore wind, but also wave energy is on the rise. This summer, the first platform to integrate wave, wind and solar power into a solution is being tested.
🔋 Simplified recycling can provide both cheaper and better rechargeable batteries
A method of recycling NiMH batteries can reuse as much as 95% of old batteries.
⚡ PRTI Creates a Power Platform from Waste Tires
#ICYMI, A little known, but big impact company, Product Recovery Technology International, or PRTI, is revolutionizing how the value from waste tires is realized.
👩❤️👨 Northvolt and Norsk Hydro are investing in recycling batteries from electric cars
More electric cars are increasing demand for efficient recycling of materials from end-of-life batteries. The new company Hydro Volt will provide more efficient and environmentally friendly use of valuable raw materials.
🇺🇸 Plans approved for North America's first-ever freshwater offshore wind farm
Ohio legislators have approved plans for the Icebreaker wind project off of the Lake Erie shore near downtown Cleveland. It will generate 20.7 megawatts of energy.