By Julian Singer During the 2020 monsoon the power output from India’s wind turbines was reported to be 30 to 40 per cent below that expected[1]. This is important because seventy per cent of India’s annual wind power is normally generated during this season, which runs from June to September. It is also surprising because [...]
By Julian Singer As discussed in a previous article (Greenbarrel, 13 October), the Prime Minister’s recent commitment to offshore wind has been welcomed by a wide range of business and environmental leaders, albeit with comments as to how the target will be achieved. Perhaps inevitably given the PM’s preference for dreams, some of the claims [...]
By Julian Singer When we last wrote in January 2019 about Proton Power Systems, the Munich-based producer of hydrogen fuel cells, the company had just announced a joint venture with two German companies to produce power systems for heavy-duty trucks. But it seems that this venture did not take off as it is not mentioned [...]
By Julian Singer The government has talked a lot about the need for regional investment and the importance of spreading the spending on infrastructure away from the major centres of population. An example of this was the recent announcement by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (DBEIS) to fund seventeen research projects which [...]
By Julian Singer The interest in hydrogen as a carbon-neutral fuel has increased significantly this year, with shares in some of the companies involved rising sharply (Greenbarrel, 28 July). Much of the interest has focused on hydrogen powering vehicles or storing energy. However while hydrogen may be the solution for commercial and industrial vehicles it [...]
By Julian Singer Powerhouse Energy (PHE) has developed a system that generates synthetic gas from even the most obdurate waste material and then uses the gas to produce hydrogen, electric power or chemicals. For the last two years its share price had bounced around a level of about 0.5 pence, but in late May this [...]
Verditek Plc owns a subsidiary whose principal business is the manufacture of flexible, lightweight solar panels. On 6 April the company announced that it was restarting its production line in Italy after the corona virus. Hopefully there are enough orders to keep it busy. A year ago we reported that the company had received certification [...]
By Julian Singer Like many companies Velocys received permission from the London Stock Exchange to delay its filing of audited results for 2019 until the end of September. Instead the company produced a 2019 Trading Update showing revenue of £0.3m (2018: £0.7m) for an operating loss of £9.8m (2018: 18.6m). The lower loss in 2019 [...]
By Julian Singer On 18 June the DBEIS[1] announced an award of £10 million for what is claimed to be the world’s first commercial liquid air battery project to be installed in Trafford, Greater Manchester. The complete project will consist of a CryoBattery, developed by Highview Power, and a combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT) from [...]
By Julian Singer Dr Philipp Grünewald is very interested in what we do all day. As Deputy Director of Energy Research at the Environmental Change Institute in Oxford, his research work and the METER project which he runs tries to understand what we use electricity for. To do this the project sends volunteers a mobile [...]