Chevron New Energies, a division of Chevron U.S.A. Inc., announced it is developing a 5-megawatt hydrogen production project in California’s Central Valley.
The project aims to create lower carbon energy by utilizing solar power, land, and non-potable produced water from Chevron’s existing...
In the western Mojave Desert north of Los Angeles, the world’s largest and highest-capacity solar farm is setting a new precedent for the way solar energy is collected and used...
Plus Power’s Kapolei battery is officially online. The pioneering project is a leading example of how to shift crucial grid functions from fossil-fueled plants to clean energy.
https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/energy-storage/a-huge-battery-has-replaced-hawaiis-last-coal-plant
Not you Grand Dad's Geothermal
In Geretsried, Germany, Eavor™ is writing the next chapter of the energy transition. The Eavor-Loop™ is a
closed-loop geothermal system
where a benign working fluid circulates in an industrial-sized, underground heat exchanger
without the need for a pumping...
capacity of small-scale solar increased from 7.3 GW in 2014, to 39.5 GW
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-adds-64-gw-small-scale-solar-capacity-2022-eia-says-2023-09-11/
Using low-grade sand, the device is charged up with heat made from cheap electricity from solar or wind.
The sand stores the heat at around 500C,
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-61996520.amp
The largest and most efficient advanced compressed air energy storage (CAES) national demonstration project has been successfully connected to the power generation grid and is ready for commercial operation in Zhangjiakou, a city in north China’s Hebei Province, announced in a press release the...
The facility outside Shanghai has a capacity of 100 megawatt hours (MWh); it can continuously discharge 25 megawatts for up to 4 hours.
The system is like a solid version of pumped hydro...
https://futurism.com/the-byte/company-builds-facility-lifts-lowers-bricks-store-energy-488786
Switzerland-based startup Energy Vault has broken ground on two huge facilities in Texas and just north of Shanghai
Two massive gravity batteries are nearing completion in the US and China...
https://www.quaise.energy/
Terawatts of clean energy
We are developing an entirely new way to access the largest untapped energy source on the planet:
https://youtu.be/fb9JWqB3c04
Energy Vault signed a $520 million deal to supply 1.6 GWh of energy storage to DG Fuels to produce renewable hydrogen and a variety of fuels.
https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2021/10/27/gravity-based-energy-storage-tower-developer-notches-a-customer-order/
https://youtu.be/J2bkZbKeUmQ
SB Energy, a subsidiary of Japanese multinational conglomerate SoftBank, has entered into an agreement with battery manufacturer ESS for the deployment of 2GWh of iron flow long-duration energy storage systems...
Climate change is widespread and intensifying
says the latest IPCC report.
It underscores the urgency of strong,
sustained cuts in greenhouse gas emissions.
https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/
China is gearing up to activate the world's first 'clean' commercial nuclear reactor.
The molten-salt nuclear reactor, which runs on liquid thorium rather than uranium, is expected to be safer than traditional reactors because the molten salt cools and solidifies quickly when exposed to the air...
Form Energy Reveals Iron-Air 100 Hour Storage Battery
Boston-based Form Energy has been diligently working on an iron-air battery. This week, the company said its first commercial product is a “rechargeable iron-air battery capable of delivering electricity for 100 hours at system costs...
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has set a goal to reduce the cost of utility-scale, long-duration energy storage by 90% within a decade to bolster a grid powered by renewable energy...
They will work to commercialize the organic oil loaded with hydrogen as a liquid organic hydrogen carrier (LOHC)
https://www.maritime-executive.com/article/liquid-organic-hydrogen-could-facilitate-hydrogen-as-propulsion-fuel
The company has since apologized after one of its lobbyists talked about undermining climate action in an undercover video.
Video clips released show Keith McCoy, the oil giant’s senior director for federal relations, talking frankly about ExxonMobil’s lobbying strategies.
He talked about...
