Energy Department Celebrates Energy Savings and Accomplishments of Better Buildings Initiative Partners
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced the progress made by the more than 900 public- and private-sector organizations leading the U.S. in energy efficiency through their participation in the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy's Better Buildings Initiative. Together, Better Buildings partners have saved 1.38 quadrillion British thermal units, equivalent to $8.4 billion in energy and cost savings. These market leaders are adopting emerging technologies, advancing the Am...
CellCube to Bring Grid Scale Vanadium Battery to South Australia
Renewables firm Pangea Energy and vanadium battery producer CellCube have signed on to build a 50MW storage system alongside a solar farm in South Australia. Construction of the 50MW/200MWh grid-scale battery is expected to begin before the end of the year, with plans to be operational in 2020. Pangea Energy is part of Sen Tek Energy Solutions, a multinational renewable energy project developer in South East Asia. It signed the letter of intent with Canadian energy storage systems manufact...
Savonlinja and Neste Launch a Low-Emission Green Travel Service for Bus Passengers
From mid-May onward, customers with the Savonlinja bus company will be able to opt for a lower-emission journey. In cooperation with Neste, Savonlinja is introducing a surcharge, called Green Travel, on the normal bus ticket price. The customer is free to decide the amount of this additional charge. Savonlinja will use the money collected through the Green Travel service to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by fueling its buses with Neste MY Renewable Diesel™, which is produced entirely fro...
Approval for Sanjeev Gupta’s South Australian solar farm
The first large scale project in billionaire industrialist Sanjeev Gupta’s plan to generate one gigawatt of dispatchable renewable energy in South Australia has been approved. The 280MW solar Cultana Solar Farm has been signed off by the South Australian Government with financial close expected to be reached by the end of June and construction to begin in the Upper Spencer Gulf town of Whyalla in the second half of the year. The project on 1100ha of vacant land to the north of the Whyalla...
Siemens to Spin-off Power and Gas Division as Investment in Thermal Power Set to Decline to $95.6bn in 2025, says GlobalData
Harminder Singh, Director of Power at GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company, offers his view on the implications of this for the industry: “Siemens’ latest decision and a similar reorganization announced by GE last year are indicators to the continuing nature of trouble for companies with significant exposure to the conventional power business. “GlobalData forecasts the total investment in thermal power is set to decline 22% from $122.9bn in 2018, to $95.6bn in 2025. This decli...
New ASCE Manual of Practice Examines the Design and Use of Wood Poles for Utility Lines
Reston, Va. – ASCE’s new book, Wood Pole Structures for Electrical Transmission Lines, MOP 141, provides comprehensive knowledge of the principles and methods for the design and use of wood poles for overhead utility line structures. When designed utilizing consistent structural engineering principles, wood pole structures provide a more resilient and cost effective option than other more commonly used materials. This manual examines Structural configurations and pole applications; Criti...
Clean Hydrogen Leader BoostBoxH2 Announces Results of Independent Testing Averaging 10% Diesel Fuel Savings Per Gallon and 70% Reduction in Emissions
Boulder, CO. - BoostBox H2, www.boostboxh2.com, a Boulder, CO based Clean Hydrogen Technology company whose BoostBoxH2 technology has been proven in independent testing to cut fuel costs and significantly reduce diesel emissions, today announced that it has partnered with Ethical Developments, PTE (www.ethicaldevelopments.com.au) with locations in Brisbane and Melbourne, Australia, for the distribution of the BoostBox H2 product line in Australia, New Zealand, The Philippines, South Korea and Is...
AW-Energy’s WaveRoller Using the Endless Energy of the Ocean’s Waves to Generate Electricity at New SURGE 2 Project in Peniche, Portugal Manufacturing Certificate Issued by Lloyd’s Register
WaveRoller provides a reliable and predictable source of renewable energy to the energy system that compliments more intermittent technologies such as wind and solar. WaveRoller taps the unused ocean energy resource that is readily available also for many locations where other renewable energy sources cannot be fully utilized due to limited available on-shore area or other considerations. A manufacturing certification milestone from Lloyd’s Register Lloyd’s Register surveyors inspecte...
Biogas Energy Storage System Launches at Wastewater Plant
A commercial thermal energy storage system that converts biogas from a wastewater treatment plant has begun operating in South Australia. Energy storage company 1414 Degrees switched on its gas thermal energy storage system (TESS) at the Glenelg Wastewater Treatment Plant in Adelaide today, its first commercial pilot site. The company says the technology is the first in the world to solve the issue of effectively storing biogas as thermal energy to produce heat and electricity on demand. T...
Global Battery Energy Storage Market to Grow by 7% to Reach $13.13bn by 2023, Says GlobalData
The global battery energy storage market is forecast to grow to $13.13bn by 2023. Asia-Pacific (APAC) and EMEA will be the dominant markets for battery energy storage systems over the forecast period 2019-2023, according to GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company. The company’s latest report ‘Battery Energy Storage Market, Update 2019 – Global Market Size, Competitive Landscape and Key Country Analysis to 2023’ reveals that the fall in technology prices and increasing pace of developme...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
TriMet’s Banfield Type 1 Substation Replacement Project
February Issue 2026
