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CCUS, nuclear, industrial heat, hydrogen, smart grids: “large unit” innovation needs more support

January 9, 2020 by Simon Bennett

How do we accelerate innovation across all technologies? Simon Bennett at the IEA breaks down the task into “small unit” and “large unit” challenges. The first is easier and moves faster. Thanks to their small size and unit cost, heat pumps, EVs and solar panels benefit from mass production, mass deployment (100,000 to 100m units/year globally) and large customer markets with fierce competition. They can also easily leverage other fast-evolving … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Grids, Hydrogen, Nuclear, Policies Tagged With: CCUS, EVs, HeatPumps, hydrogen, IndustrialHeat, investment, Nuclear, policy, smartgrids, solar

Decarbonising light duty vehicles globally: consumer choice, technology, policy pathways

December 5, 2019 by Kathryn Luu

The MIT Energy Initiative (MITIE) has completed a 3-year study of “Mobility of the Future” to plot a decarbonised pathway for light duty vehicles (i.e. cars) globally. Wide in scope and detail, it covers government policies, consumer choices and technologies, combining their multiple and complex impacts to make their assessments. Kathryn Luu at MITIE reviews the final 220-page report. For consumers, cost, convenience, and — increasingly — carbon … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Policies, Transport and energy Tagged With: AlternativeFuels, BehaviourChange, efficiency, EVs, mobility, policies, transport

Midwest U.S. grid operator MISO: modelling for a clean energy future

November 19, 2019 by Sam Gomberg

Planning can’t be easy for a grid operator. Take MISO which operates one of the world’s largest energy markets. They’re responsible for integration and bulk transmission across the central U.S., but decisions on the actual future energy mix and demand are being made elsewhere: by state governments, utilities and consumers big and small. Given the amounts invested in infrastructure and the lead times involved, no one will thank MISO if their … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Grids Tagged With: electricity, EVs, grids, markets, renewables, rooftopsolar, Transmission, US

An independent Global Energy Forecast to 2050 (part 5 of 5): Electric cars

November 15, 2019 by Schalk Cloete

Schalk Cloete has completed his own 5-part independent Global Energy Forecast to 2050, to compare with this year’s IEA World Energy Outlook, published this week. Underpinning all his predictions is his bet that the world will adopt tech-neutral policies (i.e. not backing any one technology over another) in 2030 as the best and only way to accelerate the transition to meet the 2050 goals. Given that, he sees the traditional fossil fuel ICE’s share … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Policies, Transport and energy Tagged With: BEVs, biofuels, emissions, EVs, ICEs, PHEVs, smartcities, transport, WEO2019

EVs should be getting cheaper. Instead they’re getting bigger

November 8, 2019 by Leonardo Paoli and Simon Bennett

Manufacturing an EV is getting cheaper, but affluent consumers are buying bigger cars for the same money. If manufacturers are left to serve them first, they’ll leave until last the development of cheaper EVs, penetrating new markets, that would more rapidly accelerate the replacement of fossil fuel cars and therefore the transition. That leaves policy makers with a big problem with the “success” of EVs, explain Leonardo Paoli and Simon Bennett … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Transport and energy Tagged With: BEVs, China, emissions, EVs, policies, subsidies, transport, US

Electro-mobility planning, pricing, smart-charging: “Pentalateral Region” can lead Europe

November 4, 2019 by Dolf Gielen, Francisco Boshell and Guy Lentz

At the end of October, Ministers and Director-Generals of Energy and Mobility from the Pentalateral Region (Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, France and Germany), CEOs and experts came together to understand how electro-mobility can accelerate the energy transition. Reducing vehicle emissions is one thing, but a vast number of “batteries on wheels” can also enable rapid grid expansion. IRENA were one of the experts, and their analysis says … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Transport and energy Tagged With: batteries, Belgium, EVs, France, Germany, grids, Luxembourg, Netherlands, policies, Renault, SmartCharging, storage, transport, Volkswagen

The 7 battery technologies that can be cost competitive by 2030 for EVs to grids

November 1, 2019 by Charlie Bloch, James Newcomb, Samhita Shiledar and Madeline Tyson

Rapid performance improvements, falling prices and massive investment is accelerating us towards a time when batteries undercut fossil fuels for storage and despatch, right across the board, according to a report by Rocky Mountain Institute. The authors, Charlie Bloch, James Newcomb, Samhita Shiledar and Madeline Tyson have made forecasts for 7 battery technologies: the current leader Li-ion as well as Li-Metal, Li-Sulphur, Zinc, High … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Storage Tagged With: batteries, despatch, EVs, Flow, grids, HighPower, HighTemperature, Li-ion, Li-Metal, Li-Sulphur, storage, Zinc

Hydrogen Fuel Cell trucks can decarbonise heavy transport

October 17, 2019 by Patrick Molloy

Patrick Molloy at Rocky Mountain Institute runs through the pros and cons of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles (FCEVs). The big pluses are that hydrogen has an energy density of around 120 MJ/kg, almost three times more than diesel or gasoline. Half the energy generated by an internal combustion engine is wasted as heat, whereas electric drivetrains used by FCEVs only lose 10%. Nikola Motors, a U.S. maker of hydrogen trucks, claims its vehicles can get … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Alternative fuels, Energy, Hydrogen, Transport and energy Tagged With: California, Canada, China, diesel, emissions, EU, EVs, FCEV, gas, gasoline, hydrogen, Japan, petrol, transport

Non-energy firms lead investments in clean energy start-ups

October 16, 2019 by Simon Bennett

Investments in innovative “blue sky” companies tell us where the bets are being placed on the energy sector’s future. Such investments leaped in 2016, mostly directed at clean energy technology. This analysis by Simon Bennett at the IEA usefully includes a long list of firms and their investments. Digital sensors, batteries, electric vehicles and smart algorithms are among the main recipients this year. Other fascinating categories include … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Investment Tagged With: China, clean_energy, Europe, EVs, ICT, investment, storage, Technology, transport

Smart Charging: parked EV batteries can save billions in grid balancing

June 6, 2019 by IRENA

95% of a car’s time is spent parked. It’s why parked and plugged-in EVs could be the battery banks of the future, stabilising grids powered by wind and solar. More than 1bn EVs could be on the road by 2050, their 14 TWh of EV batteries dwarfing the projected 9 TWh of stationary batteries, according to the IRENA report “Innovation Outlook: smart charging for electric vehicles”. Smart charging could therefore save billions of dollars in grid … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Transport and energy Tagged With: electricity, Enel, EVs, grid, Nissan, Nuvve, storage, Stromnetz

IEA clean energy progress report: Only 7 technologies/sectors on track, 38 not

June 5, 2019 by IEA

Of the 45 energy technologies and sectors assessed in the IEA’s latest Tracking Clean Energy Progress (TCEP) report, only 7 are on track with the IEA’s Sustainable Development Scenario (SDS). It’s their latest and most comprehensive assessment of clean energy transitions. “On track” includes energy storage, EVs and solar PV. But buildings, car, flaring and methane emissions are still rising. This year’s TCEP puts much greater emphasis on … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Climate policy, Energy, Innovations Tagged With: buildings, EVs, flaring, IEA, methane, solar, storage, transport

The European Battery Alliance is moving up a gear

May 24, 2019 by Carole Mathieu

Europe needs batteries, primarily for clean mobility and grid stabilisation. But EU lithium-ion cell manufacturing is less than 3% of the global share, and mainly for high-end niche markets, not the automotive sector. If Europe doesn’t act fast, catching up with Asia will become impossible, writes Carole Mathieu of the IFRI’s Centre for Energy, reflecting the views of the European Battery Alliance (EBA). It’s a strategic imperative, given the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Storage, Transport and energy Tagged With: automotive, batteries, China, EU, EVs, grid, InnoEnergy, Northvolt

Is Blockchain a disruptor? Or the solution to an already-disrupted energy sector

May 16, 2019 by Peter Bronski

The global energy sector is already facing multiple, concurrent disruptions that are fundamentally transforming electricity markets around the world: digitalisation, decarbonisation, decentralisation, and electric mobility. It’s creating residential prosumers, with their solar panels, electric vehicles, smart thermostats (the list is growing) and a predicted global installed distributed energy resources (DERs) capacity of 530 GW by 2026, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blockchain, Energy Tagged With: blockchain, decarbonisation, decentralisation, DERs, Digitalisation, electricity, EVs, prosumers, smartgrids

From rooftop solar to carbon divestment, California leads the transition

April 25, 2019 by Tim Buckley

California doesn’t wait for Washington. As America’s most populous state by far, it is behaving like a separate nation when it comes to climate policies. Tim Buckley, Director of Energy Finance Studies at IEEFA Australasia, says it has become a global leader in renewable energy. Renewables provided 34% of its total energy needs in 2018, and the business community sees economic success in further progress. The author runs through the highlights, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Renewables Tagged With: batteries, divestment, EVs, renewables, solar, Southern California Edison, SunPower, Tesla, Vistra Energy

Alternative fuels: Europe’s infrastructure struggling to keep pace

April 5, 2019 by Energy Post Premium

When it comes to the promotion of electric and hydrogen vehicles, Europe is struggling to match policymakers’ utopian rhetoric. The technology from the likes of ABB and Schneider Electric is ready but much more needs to be done for both hydrogen fuelling and EV charging infrastructure. Gaurav Sharma spoke to some of the industry leading lights at CERAWeek. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Alternative fuels, Energy Tagged With: ABB, Alternative fuels, charging infrastructure, charging networks, EVs, EY, hydrogen fuel cells, Schneider Electric

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