British renewable energy company Drax along with Promethean Particles, a metal-organic framework manufacturer and the University of Nottingham is going to test an innovative CO2 capture unit at the bioenergy power plant in North Yorkshire. If the tests are a success, Drax will launch construction of a full-fledged commercial analogue in 2024, its first stage will be put into operation in 2027, and the second one – in 2030.
Transition to a sustainable economic development model focused on investment in the planet’s resources and human capital increase will lead to rapid generation of new jobs. Rae Kwon Chung, Chairman of the International Award Committee of the Global Energy Prize, talked about this in the lecture The New Climate Economy and Carbon Neutrality on May 19 as part of the New Horizons online forum arranged by the Russian Znanie Society.
The government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi plans to provide half of electricity demand from solar power by 2030, according to the India Today, an Indian edition. To do it, the authorities of the Territory are going to make mandatory installation of photovoltaic panels on the roofs of government buildings.
Danish companies European Energy and Vestas plan to put into operation three of the world’s largest offshore wind turbines V236-15.0 MW. The power of each is 15 MW, and a rotor blade length is 236 metres. The project will be implemented four kilometres away from Frederikshavn, a Baltic Sea coast city, by 2024.
In 2021, in the Tomsk Region, located in Eastern Siberia, State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom began construction of the BREST-OD-300 lead-cooled reactor. Why can this project demonstrate the benefits of a closed nuclear fuel cycle? When will this technology be commercialised? And what is the future of thorium reactors? Georgy Tikhomirov, Deputy Director of the Institute of Nuclear Physics and Technology of the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, one of the authors of the report “10 Breakthrough Ideas in Energy for the Next 10 Years”, answered these questions in an interview for the Global Energy Association.
The Abu Dhabi National Power Company (TAQA) is working on a feasibility study for two ‘new power industry’ projects, the Emirati news agency WAM cites Farid Al-Awlaki, TAQA’s director for power industry. It’s about production of green hydrogen to be used for environmentally friendly steel production and creation of the green ammonia export facilities.
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