Opinion:
¶ “The World Is Turning To Renewables And Canada Should Too With Its Clean Electricity Regulations” • Canada has a big head start. Over 80% of its electricity is from non-emitting sources. Yet, it is rapidly losing ground. “To stay competitive, Canada must ramp up clean electricity at the speed and scale others are already achieving.” [David Suzuki Foundation]
Wind farm in Ontario (Keshav Rajasekar, Unsplash)
Science and Technology:
¶ “Revolutionary Loop Heat Pipe Transports 10 kW Of Waste Heat – No Electricity Required” • A team of researchers from Nagoya University in Japan developed a Loop Heat Pipe that can transport up to 10 kW of heat without the need for electricity. The team’s LHP aims to contribute to energy savings and carbon neutrality in various fields. [CleanTechnica]
World:
¶ “Xpeng Launches As Australian EV Market Down, New Zealand Market Recovering” • The spectacular launch of Xpeng into the Australian market is expected to shift the ground for EVs there. New Zealand’s market is not rushing back to the highs of last December, when sales rates hit 25%, but it is recovering slowly and in July reached 12%. [CleanTechnica]
Xpeng X2 (Courtesy of Xpeng)
¶ “UK Speeds Up ICE Vehicle Sales Ban (Again)” • The UK government has moved up its plans for an internal combustion engine vehicle ban to 2030. That’s in just 5½ years. The country intends to get from about one out of five new car sales being electric to all new cars being electric that fast. And the thing is, it doesn’t really require much work. [CleanTechnica]
¶ “Solar Photovoltaics With Battery Storage Cheaper Than Conventional Power Plants” • The latest study by the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE on the generation costs of various power plants shows that PV systems, even combined with battery storage, now produce electricity much more cheaply than fossil fuels. [CleanTechnica]
Levelized costs of electricity (Courtesy of Fraunhofer ISE)
¶ “Ofgem Awards £3.4 Billion For New Subsea Cable” • Ofgem has fast-tracked some 26 grid connection projects which will allow for faster grid connections for renewable projects. The government has awarded a £3.4 billion funding package for a proposed new subsea and underground 500 km cable between Scotland and Yorkshire. [reNews]
¶ “RWE Wins Big With 4-GW German Tender Haul” • RWE has emerged as the big winner in the latest German offshore wind auction. The German developer has won two of the three sites on offer, with the Essen-based outfit taking 4 GW of the 5.5 GW up for grabs. The zones are the 2-GW N-9.1 and 2-GW N-9.2, both in the North Sea 115 km off Borkum. [reNews]
Offshore windpower (EnBW image)
¶ “Renewable Hydrogen Plans Backed By 32 GW Of Solar And Wind Get Federal Boost” • A massive, Big Oil-backed renewable hydrogen project that proposes to install up to 26 GW of solar and wind in Western Australia’s Pilbara region has been awarded major project status by the federal government, putting it on the fast-track for regulatory approvals. [RenewEconomy]
¶ “China Deploys Massive Dual Rotor Floating Wind Power Platform” • China’s Mingyang Smart Energy has begun the deployment of a unique floating wind turbine structure. The company says the OceanX platform the world’s largest floating wind power platform. Its maximum output is expected to reach 16.6 MW. [The Maritime Executive]
OceanX platform (Mingyang image)
¶ “Price Tag For New Nuclear Power In Sweden $38 Billion, Commission Says” • Sweden’s plans to rapidly expand nuclear power are likely to cost around 400 billion crowns ($38 billion) and should be financed by mix of government loans and price guarantees, a government commission recommended. Four or five plants are possible. [MSN]
US:
¶ “US Is Now A Global Leader In Attracting EV Investments” • The US is the top nation for attracting investments in EV and battery making, surpassing announced investments in other countries globally. Companies plan $312 billion in investments in the US, up from about $75 billion when President Joe Biden took office in 2021. [CleanTechnica]
Possible Tennessee mega-campus (Courtesy of Ford)
¶ “China In Command Of The US Domestic Solar Panel Making Industry” • Construction of US plants for PV making by Chinese companies is surging, putting China in position to dominate the industry, as other American factories struggle to compete despite federal subsidies. Chinese companies will be able to serve about half the US market within a year. [CleanTechnica]
¶ “Batteries In Phoenix, Heat Pumps In Houston – Here’s Where Cleantech Industries Are Best Poised To Thrive” • RMI and the Brookings Institution have developed a free resource, the Clean Growth Tool, that maps out the places where different kinds of clean energy industries are most likely to thrive in communities across all 50 states. [CleanTechnica]
Arizona Plant (Courtesy of LG Energy Solution)
¶ “Vineyard, GE Layout Plan To Resume Installation” • Avangrid and CIP’s 804-MW Vineyard Wind and GE Vernova have put in place a three-step inspection process that will allow the company to resume turbine installation after confirming that a production defect was behind a July blade failure at the array off the coast of Massachusetts. [reNews]
¶ “White House Unveils Plan To Safeguard Renewable Energy Infrastructure” • The Biden administration is moving to guard clean energy networks from cyberattacks. The White House says the convergence of network-based information technology and physical process management puts an emphasis on software in this transition. [OilPrice.com]
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