How much biomass is produced each year and how much can we sustainably harvest? In the first part of this series, we find that the annual global production of land-based biomass is 50 billion tons, of which roughly 8 billion tons of biomass can be sustainably harvested each year. This is determined by dividing biomass into four distinct groups suitable for energy production: wood, agriculture, food waste and manure. For each group, the amount of annual ‘production’ and the amount suitable for sustainable ‘harvest’ is determined, adhering to the ‘food, feed, fiber first’ principle.

China announces it is considering carbon neutrality as part of its long term climate plan, a critical step in preparation of the COP26 UN climate summit in 2021.

Elon Musk made some big announcements. The company is planning to get rid of Cobalt in their batteries and to manufacture its own “tabless” batteries, called 4860 cells. This type of battery is six times more powerful, and the range will be increased by 16 percent. The new battery technology will make a $25,000 Tesla car a reality.

A new “wave” of economic disruption and societal change is upon us, driven by renewable energy technologies. Covid-19 acts as an catalyst for this transformation.

The facility from 1PointFive and Carbon Engineering will capture CO2 directly from the air and store it safely, permanently and securely deep underground in geological formations.

Solar PV is integrated with the local water treatment system on Tengeh Reservoir in Singapore, offsetting 6% of its annual energy needs for 25 years.

Semi-transparent solarpanels can prove to be a game-changer in the businessmodel of greenhouses.

Full electrification of buildings is a crucial step in the energy transition. To reduce fossil fuel dependency in buildings, heat-pumps are key.

In IMO’s fourth greenhouse gas (GHG) study, a consortium headed by research establishment CE Delft has found that GHG emissions from global shipping are growing and are expected to continue to increase.

Carbon capture and storage is often brought up as a solution to climate change, but do we really need it, how much of an impact could it really make, and is it in fact just an excuse to keep burning fossil fuels, letting heavy polluting industries off the hook? It's time to find out the truth.

Kind of what you expect. A full-scale behavioral analysis of a 4 [MW] floating solar system by Foresys. Made in Orcaflex.

Investment in renewables reached 273 billion dollars in 2018. Why not nuclear? Countries that produce a lot of low-carbon energy (like France) pay way less for their killowatt-hours. So why are baseload providing nuclear power reactors losing the battle against natural gas stations? Let’s dive into the economics of nuclear power stations.

Helen Czerski went to Wendeburg in Germany to see if it really is possible to recycle the materials in vehicle batteries. She shows how this new and rapidly growing industry is developing and coming up with some interesting results, with lithium-iron batteries being economically recycled up to 70% (91% including graphite). Please send this to all the people you know who say 'what about when we throw all these fancy batteries into landfill.

Colin Breck and Percy Link explore the evolution of Tesla's Virtual Power Plant (VPP) architecture. A VPP is a network of distributed energy-resources (often solar, wind, batteries) that are aggregated to provide smarter and more flexible power generation, distribution, and availability. Tesla's VPP consists of vertically integrated hardware and software, including both cloud and edge computing.

In de Rotterdamse haven wordt gewerkt aan een omvangrijk Carbon Capture and Storage project - Porthos - om CO2 op te vangen en te injecteren in de Noordzee-bodem. Zodoende wordt de uitstoot van de Rotterdamse haven aanzienlijk verlaagd.

BP Lingen uses green hydrogen in fuel production for the first time worldwide.

Claimed to be the first offshore green hydrogen project, this pilot-project will have an electrolyzer producing green hydrogen from seawater on board the Q13a platform in the Netherlands.

North Sea Giant is amongst the largest and most advanced subsea construction vessels ever built. North Sea Giant is an efficient multi-purpose vessel with supreme deck and crane capacity, alongside a unique power system. Her propellers and thrusters are tailor made for delivering a wide variety of demanding marine operations in deep and ultradeep waters.

The North Sea Giant saves two million liters of diesel every year. It has installed three battery packs and a distribution system from Wärtsilä, which will dramatically reduce fuel consumption. The North Sea Giant is one of the world's largest construction ships, and was the first vessel in its class to have a hybrid system installed on board.

People think we need energy. Truth is, we do not. We need heating, lighting and transportation. At the right place, on the right time. Generating energy is not the issue, the trick is how to transform it into useful energy and store it. So how can we combine the cheapest form of energy generation with energy storage? What is the best place to generate gigantic, ridiculous amounts of energy? As in tenths of gigawatts, the size of small countries? In the desert with solar energy? Think again.