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Fifty Years of the Battery – and What Comes Next
…fall in battery prices. Home energy storage – a battery installed alongside rooftop solar – has become a true mass-market product over the past five years. The Tesla Powerwall is the most widespread brand: a 13.5 kWh unit with an integrated inverter and…
At the Sun's Gate
An Indian research team has developed a solar-powered nanoreactor that could radically improve the quality of wastewater treatment. Their goal was a solution that is cheap to run, sustainable and able to break down the most persistent pollutants in wastewater…
Home Batteries That One Cloud Can Switch Off
…growing share of power consumption and generation runs on internet-connected devices. A solar inverter, a home battery, an EV charger or a heat pump no longer belongs only to the household: a manufacturer or service provider can control it remotely from the…
When the Cooling Water and the Power Run Out
…et al., 2026). The report explicitly rules out that renewable energy sources – wind or solar – played a role in causing the situation. According to WindEurope (2026), the president of ENTSO-E put it this way at the press conference: The blackout was made…
How Is Hydrogen Made?
…next to geothermal or hydropower plants. PEM is the best choice for variable loads, with solar or wind systems. HTEL gains a real advantage where industrial waste heat can be brought into the process. The race is currently between PEM and AEL; HTEL is the…
Europe Is Drying Up
…up for the missing hydro and nuclear power with natural gas, imports and rapidly growing solar generation – the only major power source not directly constrained by water scarcity. Daily output at Hungary's Paks nuclear power plant fell from 38 GWh to 21…
Hydrogen-Iron Battery at Europe's Largest Wind Farm
…Zeewolde is not an isolated case: in the Netherlands, the growth of wind and solar capacity has been outpacing transmission grid development for years, leading to regular congestion and curtailment of renewable generation. The Dutch transmission…
World's First Floating Power Plant Feeds Singapore's Grid
…been typical in the nearshore energy sector. According to Violet Chen, director for solar and grid solutions at Singapore's Energy Market Authority (EMA), the project plays an important role in preparing Singapore's grid for a growing share of variable…
Why Is the Hydrogen Powertrain Being Pushed to the Margins?
…years (IEA, 2024). The IEA explicitly draws a parallel with what has already happened in solar and battery manufacturing: the initial development lead of Europe and the US eroded and the entire value chain became concentrated in Chinese hands. The same…
What Is Hydrogen Good For? – Industry, Energy, Transport
…role in the energy system: it can act as a "buffer" for renewable energy. When wind or solar power produces a surplus – at night, at weekends, in summer – the excess can be converted into hydrogen by electrolysis, stored and converted back into electricity…