The Most Important 8 Energy News in The 1st Week of August

Capula launches energy digitalisation consultancy in UK

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Capula has created a new consultancy to help the energy industry digitalize and decarbonize. The service combines business, digital, and technical skills to help utilities, nuclear, and power companies speed their digital transformation.

Capula’s Pentagon Approach, a five-step methodology, will ensure that solutions that support corporate strategy and digital transformation are delivered correctly the first time.

Furthermore, the consultancy will use Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), Machine Learning (ML), and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies to give clients with vital industrial data for enhancing efficiencies across power and energy plants and networks. Neil White will lead the service, which will be supported by a team of digitization specialists.

Source: capula


Government of Alberta Announces $50 Million to Advance Hydrogen Innovation

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Alberta Innovates and Emissions Reduction Alberta (ERA) are investing $50 million to promote the development of technologies crucial to the advancement of the province’s Hydrogen Roadmap and Natural Gas Strategy.

Proposals for hydrogen production, storage, transmission, and end-use in various industries are being accepted. The competition is accessible to companies of all sizes, including technology innovators, industry, postsecondary institutions, and Indigenous businesses.

Alberta is Canada’s largest producer of hydrogen and possesses the resources, experience, and technology to be a global supplier of clean, low-cost hydrogen. The Hydrogen Centre of Excellence develops technology and innovation to keep Alberta at the forefront of the global energy system.

Source: eralberta


New Method to Extract Lignin Could Help Reduce Carbon Emissions

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Washington State University researchers have devised an innovative method for extracting up to 93% of lignin from wheat straw with up to 98% purity, that producing  a significant amount of material in a consistent manner that may make it more acceptable for industrial usage.

Lignin is notoriously difficult to extract from plants, but it has promise as a precursor for biobased materials and energy. The extracted lignin was light in color, similar to natural lignin. WSU’s Office of Commercialization has filed a provisional patent and will collaborate with researchers to scale up and commercialize this technology.

Source: wsu.edu


First grid-scale gravity energy storage system commissioned to Chinese grid

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In Rudong, Jiangsu Province, China, Energy Vault has installed the world’s first grid-scale gravity energy storage system (GESS). The 25MW/100MWh EVx GESS is expected to balance China’s national energy grid by storing renewable energy for lengthy periods of time.

The GESS was constructed near a wind farm and a national grid interconnection point. Energy Vault predicts that the system will be completely grid-connected in the fourth quarter of 2023, making it the world’s first commercial, utility-scale non-pumped hydro GESS. The round trip efficiency (RTE) of the EVx system is predicted to be greater than 80%.

Source: energyvault


Babcock & Wilcox Solar Energy, Inc. Awarded Community Solar Contracts Totaling $20 Million

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Summit Ridge Energy has awarded Babcock & Wilcox Solar Energy contracts totaling more than $20 million for the engineering, procurement, and construction of 25 MW of community solar energy projects in Illinois.

The six photovoltaic solar projects will be engineered, procured, and built by B&W, with completion anticipated for 2024. Summit Ridge Energy is the state’s largest commercial solar developer and owner-operator, with a portfolio of over 250 MW.

The company has spent over $900 million in Illinois through the development and acquisition of 116 individual solar farms, saving more than 20,000 Illinois ratepayers money on solar power.

Source: babcock


Viking wind farm project receives final turbine components

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On August 3, 2023, the final convoy of wind turbine components for the Viking wind farm in Shetland took place, marking a significant milestone for the project.

Since February 2023, approximately 280 convoys have been successfully completed, transporting over 1000 turbine components carefully from Lerwick Port to the Viking wind farm site.

The installation of 103 Vestas V117 turbines is progressing well, with 83 turbines now fully built. The 443 MW Viking wind farm, when completed in 2024, will be capable of producing enough electricity to power the equivalent of nearly 500,000 houses, including every residence in Shetland.

Source: vikingenergy


TotalEnergies, Baker Hughes, Technip Energies, Azimut, and others to invest in Zhero Europe’s green energy expansion

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TotalEnergies, Baker Hughes, Technip Energies, Azimut (through its fund Azimut ELTIF – Infrastructure & Real Assets ESG), and other investors have inked a preliminary agreement to invest in Zhero Europe in order to create large-scale renewable energy projects in Europe and Africa.

Renewable energy generation, power linkages, and green molecules will all be part of the projects. Zhero Europe was created on the belief that large integrated projects would be the most effective means of accelerating the energy transition in high-demand areas.

Zhero Europe will use this amount of funding to advance the development of its project portfolio, using the world-class experience of its new investors.

Source: totalenergies


Innovative strategy could help improve water quality in eutrophic lakes

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Peking University researchers have created a new technique dubbed DWDO to improve water quality in eutrophic lakes.

The method optimises water diversion in response to numerous elements such as climatic indicators and the quality of both the source and the lake using deep reinforcement learning and a complicated water quality model.

The DWDO model was tested in Lake Dianchi, China’s largest eutrophic freshwater lake, and yielded promising results in terms of lowering total nitrogen and total phosphorus concentrations while minimising water diversion. The approach is sound and supports effective decision-making in water quality management, making it a promising tool for eutrophication control.

Source: english.pku.edu

 

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