⚡️ 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.
🇺🇸 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.
🌞 Insanely low solar prices
Even the most optimistic forecasters have been wrong, the price of solar energy has dropped even faster. Soon it is cheaper to build new solar energy than to retain existing coal and gas.
⚡ Renewable energy surpasses coal in U.S. power generation every day in the month of April 2020
In a first for any month, renewables from solar, wind, and hydropower generated more electricity than coal on every day in April 2020, according to new data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA).
🏭 Sweden Shuts Down Its Last Coal Plant Two Years Early
Swedish utility Stockholm Exergi announced the closure April 16, a day before Austria also closed its last remaining coal plant, bringing the number of coal-free European countries up to three.
🌞 Almost 75% of all new energy is renewable
In 2019 renewable energy grew by 7.6 percent. Solar power in Asia accounts for the most significant increase.
☀️ Solar panel driveways may soon be powering households with clean electricity
This new development has been in the works for five years now, and is working to implement solar technology into urban spaces.
⚡ This small island chain in Scotland may revolutionize how we produce hydrogen.
Some islands in Northern Scotland have too much clean energy. So now they are producing hydrogen power.
🌞 Solar cells for indoor use can replace batteries in future sensors
Solar cells developed to operate in low light can give us new opportunities to use indoor lighting to power sensors.
💨 Wind power is now the most-used renewable energy in the U.S.
For the first time in U.S. history, the amount of electric power generated from wind in 2019 exceeded the amount sourced from hydroelectric.