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Elestor engineers in front of a container

Hydrogen-Iron Battery at Europe's Largest Wind Farm

Dutch developer Elestor is installing a 20 MW/200–800 MWh hydrogen-iron flow battery at Windpark Zeewolde, as both market sentiment towards the technology and the management of Dutch grid congestion enter a new phase.

Perovskite mineral

Green Hydrogen Gets Greener

Researchers at the University of Birmingham have developed a perovskite catalyst that can split water into hydrogen at temperatures up to 500 °C lower than current processes – a step closer to cheap hydrogen from industrial waste heat.

Seatrium floating platform

World's First Floating Power Plant Feeds Singapore's Grid

Seatrium's remotely controlled floating platform has delivered electricity to Singapore's power grid for the first time, paving the way for a new type of offshore energy infrastructure.

Offshore oil refinery

Why Is the Hydrogen Powertrain Being Pushed to the Margins?

Behind the most loudly promised technology of the energy transition lie persistent cost gaps, missing infrastructure and documented oil industry interests.

Solar park at sunset

The Solar Panel Revolution

In three decades, photovoltaics has gone from a laboratory curiosity to the world's cheapest source of energy – but the real breakthrough is still ahead.

Porsche Panamera beside the eFuel plant in Chile

What Is Hydrogen Good For? – Industry, Energy, Transport

For decades, hydrogen has quietly kept heavy industry alive – now, through e-fuels and fuel cells, it is entering transport too.

Air Liquide steam methane reforming hydrogen plant in Cologne, Germany

How Is Hydrogen Made?

Steam methane reforming and coal gasification, then electrolysis in three ways – production methods differ widely in efficiency, CO₂ footprint and price per kilogram.

Electron microscope image of an H2 molecule

The Age of Hydrogen – Why Now?

We have talked about the Earth's lightest element as a potential energy carrier for decades – for the first time, it looks as if the hope is coming true.

Koenigsegg Quark electric motor

The New Age of the Electric Motor

The electric motor was not invented yesterday – but it has never been reinvented as radically as now: rethinking magnetic flux, the dual-rotor principle and the rare earth question are together rewriting the future of electric propulsion.

CorPower Ocean's C4 point-absorber buoy

The Ocean's Hidden Energies

While offshore wind is already a proven industrial reality, two emerging technologies – wave energy and tidal stream energy – are just now moving from the laboratory to the open sea.