De Nora was founded in 1923 and specializes in electrode and water treatment technologies. Pavlo Gonchar | Lightrocket | Getty Images The CEO of electrode maker Industrie De Nora says it is “not...
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The race to make green hydrogen competitive is on
One type of hydrogen production uses electrolysis, with an electric current splitting water into oxygen and hydrogen. If the electricity used in this process comes from a renewable source then some ca...
Volvo has started testing trucks with fuel cells powered by hydrogen
According to Volvo Trucks, fuel cells for the vehicles will be provided by cellcentric, a joint venture with Daimler Truck that was established in March 2021. Tomohiro Ohsumi | Bloomberg | Getty Image...
Climate change will force some UK communities to move, official says
Houses on the east coast of England, photographed in 2020. On Tuesday, the chief executive of the U.K.’s Environment Agency said climate change meant some coastal communities would have to move....
How nature could change the way we do business
A hot cup of coffee is the perfect start to the day for millions of people around the world. But when taking that first sip, it’s easy to forget how much work goes into bringing it to the table....
Toyota ramps up efforts to look at potential of hydrogen vehicles
One of Toyota’s Sora busess photographed in Japan on Nov. 5, 2021. Toyota started working on the development of fuel-cell vehicles back in 1992. Korekore | Istock Editorial | Getty Images Toyota...
FastBlade tidal turbine testing site opens in Scotland
An image of the £4.6 million FastBlade facility. Scotland has a long association with North Sea oil and gas production, but in recent years it’s also become a hub for companies and projects focu...
Global Car Sales To Fall, Spooked By Russian Invasion, China’s Shutdown
Aerial view Vehicle carrier vessel cruising at car park in sea port or manufacture waiting for … [+] shipping export to worldwide. getty Global car sales were supposed to rally this year as manu...
Can The Genesis GV60 Electric SUV Live With German Competition?
GV60 IG-@_fraser73 Genesis, the premium wannabe subsidiary of Hyundai of Korea, is hoping its first electric vehicle the GV60 will be the key to its ambitious plan to shake up German hegemony in Europ...
Europe Car Forecasts Turn Negative, While Electric Sales Growth To Stall
Electric car sales in Western Europe are set to stall. getty Sales prospects for cars and SUVs in Western Europe are fading fast with forecasts dropping into negative territory as economic prospects w...
Ice cream freezers to get ‘warmed up’ in trial by Unilever
According to Unilever, the industry standard for freezer temperatures in many markets stands at minus 18 degrees Celsius (around 0 degrees Fahrenheit). The temperature of freezers in the trials will b...
Autos CEO warns of battery supply scarcity as EV competition heats up
In 2021, Volvo Cars said it planned to become a “fully electric car company” by the year 2030, a move which will require it to have a consistent and secure supply of batteries for its vehi...
Trading the winners and losers from the dollar at two-year highs
Wall Street may be underestimating the dollar’s jump to two year highs. “With each passing day the dollar goes higher. That creates more of a headwind for the multinationals in the market ...
Siemens Gamesa in $629 million sale of south European assets to SSE
Details of the agreement between SSE and SGRE were announced on the same day the latter released preliminary results for the second quarter, reporting revenue of around 2.2 billion euros and an operat...
Huge undersea cables to give UK, Germany first ever energy link
Onshore wind turbines in Germany. The NeuConnect project says the interconnector will enable Britain to “tap into the vast energy infrastructure in Germany, including its significant renewable e...
Russia-Ukraine war has limited impact on Europe vacation bookings
Travelers booking luxury trips to Europe have not canceled amid the Ukraine war, says travel advisor Jessica Griscavage of Runway Travel. Pictured, Grignan, France. Westend61 | Westend61 | Getty Image...
Londoners should avoid unnecessary car journeys after pollution alert
The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has issued a high pollution alert for the U.K. capital. Andrew Holt | Photolibrary | Getty Images LONDON — Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has issued a high pollution alert...
IEA’s plan to cut oil use
Cyclists photographed in Lisbon, Portugal, in October 2018. Kamisoka | Istock Unreleased | Getty Images Speed limits on highways should be cut by at least 10 kilometers per hour (6.2 mph) to help lowe...
Hydrogen-powered train a step closer to passenger service in Germany
A model of Siemens Mobility’s Mireo Plus photographed in 2019. Nicolas Armer | Picture Alliance | Getty Images Plans to deploy a hydrogen-powered train in the southern German state of Bavaria to...
VW and Goldman Sachs-backed Northvolt plans German gigafactory
A lithium-ion prismatic cell battery from Northvolt, photographed on Feb. 17, 2022. Mikael Sjoberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Northvolt said Tuesday it would look to build a gigafactory in Germany, wi...
Europe’s ocean energy installations surge back to pre-Covid levels
An overhead view of a tidal turbine from Orbital Marine Power on September 6, 2021. William Edwards | AFP | Getty Images European installations of tidal and wave energy capacity jumped in 2021, as the...
Britain resurfaces huge tidal energy plan amid Ukraine crisis
An aerial shot of the Severn Estuary from 2010. Jamie Cooper | Sspl | Getty Images An independent commission in the U.K. is to revisit the possibility of using the Severn Estuary, a large body of wate...
Aston Martin inks deal to develop batteries with Britishvolt
The Aston Martin Rapide E electric vehicle on display at the Auto Shanghai 2019 show in Shanghai, China. Qilai Shen | Bloomberg | Getty Images Aston Martin is to work with Britishvolt on the developme...
There should be no new gas supply contracts with Russia: IEA
A Gazprom logo photographed in Russia on Jan. 28, 2021. Andrey Rudakov | Bloomberg | Getty Images The European Union should not enter into any new gas supply contracts with Russia, in order to lower i...
Europe installed a record amount of wind power in 2021
New wind turbines being built at a wind farm in Germany on October 12, 2021. Sean Gallup | Getty Images News | Getty Images Europe installed 17.4 gigawatts of wind power capacity in 2021, according to...
Speed up renewables investment to guarantee energy independence: CEO
The CEO of Portuguese utility EDP has linked the rapid adoption of renewables to Europe’s energy independence, telling CNBC that investment in the sector needed to be “much faster.” ...
Airbus CEO says hydrogen plane is ‘the ultimate solution’
A model of one of Airbus’ ZEROe concept aircraft displayed in Hamburg, Germany, on 18 January 2022. Marcus Brandt/dpa | picture alliance | Getty Images Aviation could face substantial challenges...
Green hydrogen demo that will use offshore wind planned for North Sea
No-Mad | iStock | Getty Images German power firm RWE has signed an agreement with Neptune Energy to develop a green hydrogen demonstration project in the Dutch North Sea, targeting an electrolyzer cap...
European nuclear fusion experiment announces ‘record-breaking’ results
Nuclear fusion powers the Sun. Pierre Longnus | The Image Bank | Getty Images Researchers working on a project centered around fusion energy — the process that powers stars — have hailed “record...
European Car Sales Rally Expected, But Strong Electric Performance Jeopardized By Charging Sloth
Oliver Zipse, CEO of BMW, and an i4 electric car. Zipse warned the charging network is developing … [+] too slowly (Photo by TOBIAS SCHWARZ/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images Two high-pr...
Number of rainy days and intense rainfall can affect economy: Study
A man walks through the floods towards destroyed houses in Schuld near Bad Neuenahr, western Germany, on July 15, 2021. Bernd Lauter | AFP | Getty Images Climate affects the “economic growth sto...