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New Technology Automatically Adjusts a Home’s Power Use in Response to Fluctuating Prices

The impacts of climate change are pushing electrical grids around the world to their limits. Last year, an unprecedented polar vortex caused consumers in Texas to crank up their thermostats and overwhelm the power grid, resulting in days-long power outages. And in California, power is preemptively shut off during high fire-risk weather conditions.

1 Mar 2022

EV Manufacturer Mullen Announces Progress on Solid-State Polymer Battery Pack Development

Mullen Automotive, Inc. (“Mullen” or the “Company”), an emerging electric vehicle (“EV”) manufacturer, announces an update on Mullen’s next-generation solid-state polymer battery technology, which is a significant advancement over today’s current lithium-Ion batteries.

From Mullen Technologies, Inc. 1 Mar 2022

Large-Scale Relationships Between Vegetation and Climatic Characteristics

With the help of machine learning, a new study has identified the large-scale relationships existing between vegetation and climatic characteristics.

28 Feb 2022

Study Details Vulnerability of Outdoor Recreation to Climate Change

Change is difficult, particularly when it includes mega-droughts, soaring summer temperatures, invasive species, and other items from the list of unpleasant results of climate change.

28 Feb 2022

Actions to Reduce CO2 Emissions Could Limit the Rising Temperature of Swiss Rivers

According to an EPFL study, if we take immediate measures to reduce CO2 emissions, we could limit the rise in the temperature of Swiss rivers to 1 degree Celsius between now and 2090 without drastically affecting their discharge. Inaction, on the other hand, would threaten ecosystems and jeopardize the country's agriculture sector and electricity production.

28 Feb 2022

MIT Advances Toward a More Sustainable, Equitable Food System

As part of MIT's updated climate action plan, known as "Fast Forward," Institute leadership committed to establishing a set of quantitative goals in 2022 related to food, water, and waste systems that advance MIT's commitment to climate. Moving beyond the impact of campus energy systems, these newly proposed goals take a holistic view of the drivers of climate change and set the stage for new frontiers of collaborative climate work.

28 Feb 2022

All-Organic Polymer Battery Could Replace Traditional Metal-Based Batteries

Fully organic rechargeable household batteries are an ideal alternative to traditional metal-based batteries, in particular for reducing pollution to landfill and the environment.

28 Feb 2022

Solartech Pioneer Solivus Lands £2.4 m Investment to Supercharge UK’s Net-zero Journey

Solivus, the pioneer of new ‘skin-like’ solar panels, has secured £2.4 m investment, led by Founders Factory and G-Force and supported by Crowdcube investors, to fund expansion plans putting solar power at the heart of the UK’s energy generation.

From Solivus Ltd. 28 Feb 2022

Researchers Reveal Environmental Stress Caused by Microplastics in Yangtze River

Microplastics are spreading throughout the world and have emerged as a new contaminant in the water environment. Rivers may play a significant role in the transfer of microplastics from land to sea. However, field studies on the environmental fate of microplastics at the watershed scale are still missing, which is critical for determining the exact roles of river systems in transferring microplastics into the ocean.

25 Feb 2022

Rising Temperatures are Causing Earth's Coldest Forests to Shift Northward, Study Shows

New research from Northern Arizona University shows rising temperatures are causing Earth's coldest forests to shift northward, raising concerns about biodiversity, an increased risk of wildfires and mounting impacts of climate change on northern communities.

25 Feb 2022

World’s First Flexible Solar Manufacturing Facility to Use Micro-groove Technology Opens in the UK

Today, Power Roll opens its solar film manufacturing facility in County Durham. It is the first facility in the world to produce low-cost, lightweight, flexible solar film using Power Roll’s patented micro-groove technology.

From Power Roll Limited 25 Feb 2022

In the Pipeline: New Approach to Dealing with Wet Wipes, Scourge of the Sewers

A new eco-friendly way of dealing with wet wipes clogging up sewage systems is in the pipeline as Carbogenics, an Edinburgh-based circular economy start-up, has received funding for a trial project with Scottish Water. ...

25 Feb 2022

Blue Summit Seeks Solutions for Australia’s Ocean Decade

Sydney will host a Blue Solutions Summit on Thursday, 10th March 2022, to elevate ocean focussed action by businesses, brands and government with a push to drive pledges to act on ocean health issues and opportunities as part of nation’s response to the current UN Ocean Decade.

25 Feb 2022

ACWA Power Breaks Ground on Uzbekistan’s First Publicly Tendered Wind Project

ACWA Power, a leading Saudi developer, investor and operator of power generation, desalinated water and green hydrogen plants worldwide, today broke ground on the 100 MW Nukus wind project, in a formal ceremony attended by H.E. Shavket Mirziyoyev, President, Republic of Uzbekistan; H.E. Yousef Saleh Algahrah Al-Otaibi, Saudi Arabia’s Ambassador to the Republic of Uzbekistan, Mr. Mohammad Abunayyan, Chairman of ACWA Power, and senior officials from the Uzbek government.

From ACWA Power 25 Feb 2022

Sembcorp Energy UK Secures 150 MW Battery Storage in Capacity Market Auction

Sembcorp Energy UK (SEUK) announced that it has secured a 15-year contract for 150 MW of two-hour duration battery storage (equivalent to 300 MWh) in the provisional results for the latest T-4 2025/26 Capacity Market auction. This 150 MW tranche, expected to be operational by 2023, is part of a planned total 360 MW battery energy storage system announced in December 2021.

25 Feb 2022