Daily Debrief

GeoPura enters into Share Purchase Agreement with Ballard in £275m deal

Report argues that switching to heat pumps and electric cars would bring down energy bills and avoid price shocks

Partners plan more than 30 battery-swapping hubs across Europe to speed up electrification of road freight

Ember has been experimenting with using artificial intelligence (AI) to expand the scale, depth and usability of our analytical work. AI allows us to move faster from a research question to a working analytical tool, but more importantly it helps us test more scenarios, combine more datasets and generate more ...

CATL held the global launch of its large-scale sodium-ion BESS yesterday, unveiling a 30MWh+ module which it will ship outside China from next year.

Great Britain has paid at least six times the normal price for imported power as millions turn on air conditioning and windfarm output sags The heatwave has prompted a sharp rise in electricity prices across European markets as millions turn to air conditioners and electric fans to battle record high temperatures, which have also caused a string of power plant outages across the continent. Great Britain imported electricity from Europe at more than six times the normal price on Tuesday as the high-pressure heat dome has slowed wind speeds, hitting renewable energy generation, and led to outages at multiple gas plants across the country. Continue reading...

As the UK faces yet another global energy crisis, a return to business as usual is unsustainable, writes techUK's Katie Davies

Rivington Energy has sold a 50 MW battery energy storage system development, located in Oxfordshire, UK, to funds managed by Schroders Greencoat.

Executives from lithium-ion battery and BESS manufacturer CATL discussed sodium-ion technology at Smarter E Europe today.

Ember study explores how heatwave impacts could be eased by deploying solar panels and air conditioning units in tandem

EXCLUSIVE: Nine in 10 landlords have increased spend on green features, as they look to bolster resilience and boost property portfolio's long-term value

Also in today’s newsletter: global gas flaring jumps to highest level since 2019

Equinor has secured enough CO2 storage capacity to meet its goal of 30–50 million metric tons of CO2 storage annually by 2035. The question is: Will customers be willing to purchase that capacity?

Syntholene Energy’s completion of a geothermal integrated Solid Oxide Electrolyzer Cell (SOEC) demonstration facility in Húsavík, Iceland introduces a technical approach that seeks to partially decouple hydrogen production from full electrical dependence by integrating geothermal heat into the process.

Plants pushed jet fuel production to record levels after Iran war cut off Middle East export routes