Monthly Archives: March 2022

The British company Oxford PV is going to start production of tandem solar cells from silicon and perovskite, the mineral named after Count Lev Perovsky (1792 – 1856), in 2022. The production site will be located in Brandenburg an der Havel, the oldest city in the state of Brandenburg, Eastern Germany.

French startup BladeRunner Energy has designed a small-scale hydroelectric power plant that can generate electricity using the energy of natural water flow without the need for a dam, reports the developer company website.

Ecotech companies drew $87.5 billion investments throughout the world in fiscal year 2021, which is three times more than a year before ($28.5 billion). This is stated in the PwC study focusing on development of the companies specialising in carbon sequestration, adaptation to climate change and environmental data collection.

The Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and Zhuhai Futian Energy Technology Co. have launched the world’s first pilot plant for gasoline production by CO2 hydrogenation, the Institute says.

TROPOMI device located aboard Copernicus Sentinel-5 Precursor satellite, in 2019-2020 detected 1,800 methane emissions exceeding 25 tons per hour. Two-thirds of them were related to the world’s largest oil and gas basins and pipelines. This is set forth in an article written by authors from NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA), published in the Science Magazine.

Power storage using lithium-ion batteries is becoming one of the fundamental tasks of present-day energy branch. This is both due to objective reasons, such as the growing demand for electricity, development of renewable energy sources, transition to electric engines and the expansion of the electricity consumption geography, and to subjective ones, such as the desire for a more comfortable life or the mainstreaming of novel household technologies